NHTSA vPIC
MakeTOYOTA
ModelCorolla
Year2018
BodySedan/Saloon
Engine1.8L · 4-cyl
Trans6-speed
FuelGasoline
Drive4x2
PlantCambridge, ON
+ 91 more…
Full specification
Over 100 fields: engine, trim, body, drivetrain, GVWR and the plant it rolled out of.
The complete record
of one car.
Type a VIN. Vinqua reads its structure on the spot, then pulls the specification, open safety recalls, owner complaints, crash-test results and fuel economy from official U.S. records.
17 characters, or 5 to 13 for a pre-1981 number
Try one
New to VINs? See what every character means
Inside a record
Eight sources, one page
NHTSA Recalls
3 open
Air bag inflator may rupture on deployment
Open safety recalls
Every unfixed campaign for that make, model and year, with the risk and the remedy.
NHTSA NCAP
★★★★★
5/5 overall
Crash-test ratings
Frontal, side and rollover stars.
EPA
31mpg
combined
Fuel economy
MPG, yearly fuel cost and CO₂.
NHTSA Complaints
133
filed
12
crashes
4
fires
What owners reported
Crashes, fires, injuries and failures filed by drivers of the same model.
Derived from complaints
Transmission40%
Brakes17%
What breaks most
Every complaint names the part that failed, so Vinqua ranks them and tells you where to look.
NICB
Not listed
Stolen and total loss
A direct lookup against the insurance industry's stolen and salvage database.
Vinqua model
$7,700
typical
What it's worth
A labelled ballpark from class and age, next to the free tools that price the actual car.
Questions
Straight answers
Where does the data come from?
NHTSA's vPIC decoder, NHTSA recall, complaint, defect-investigation and NCAP crash-test records, EPA fuel economy data from fueleconomy.gov including owner-submitted real-world MPG, and the NICB stolen-vehicle lookup. Every section of a record names its source and the time it was checked.
Do I need the VIN, or will the plate do?
You need the VIN. It is on the driver-side dashboard where it meets the windscreen, on the sticker inside the driver's door jamb, and on your registration and insurance documents. On a 1981 or later car it is exactly 17 characters and never contains the letters I, O or Q.
Does it work on a classic or pre-1981 car?
Yes. The 17-character standard only began with the 1981 model year, so an older car carries the manufacturer's own number, usually 5 to 13 characters and often containing I, O or Q. Nothing can be decoded from the number itself, so you name the year, make and model instead and Vinqua pulls the records against that. NHTSA's recall database reaches back to 1949, so a genuinely old car can still have real safety records to find.
How do I know if a recall means I should stop driving?
NHTSA marks its most serious campaigns with a do-not-drive or park-outside warning, usually for defects such as Takata airbag inflators or fire risk. Vinqua raises those to the top of the record rather than burying them in a list, and repairs for any open recall are free at a franchised dealer.
Can Vinqua tell me what is likely to break?
Close to it. Every complaint filed with NHTSA names the component that failed, so Vinqua ranks them: on a 2003 Honda Accord the transmission accounts for about 40% of all complaints. Complaints are self-reported, so read the ranking as where to look rather than as a defect rate.
Is it free?
Yes. Every section comes from a public U.S. government source and all of them are included. No account, no card.