I've been thinking about this for a while and thought I'd bring it up. Wouldn't it be useful if we could dedicate a special part of the site, or even just of the forums, as a sort of encyclopedia of vehicles? I know Neptune worked on making that extensive encyclopedia for the Expedition, and I've posted some ways to ID vehicles such as the Ford LTD CV. It would be useful information and for anyone trying to identify vehicles on the site itself, it would be easier to go to this specific area to look for info. I don't know what you guys think, but I thought I'd bring it up just to hear what you guys have to say.

The Crestline Standard Catalog series of books is very useful. I have gotten by without any, but I will look for them when I have more cash lying around. I think your idea works best with newer cars.

In a way the "useful info..." section of the forum was made for that, but it would maybe be better to have these info on some pages directly on the site...

Possibly including links to some of the encyclopaedic sites like http://www.renaultoloog.nl/renaultoloog.htm
?

Again, that was the purpose of that section of the forum Hence the original rule of 1 topic per make, to make it easy to use.
But a forum is not very easy to use for that, a wiki-like site is probably better.

I do realize that we have a section on the forum for that, but I think that doing something else might be more useful. For example, it can be a bit more difficult to look for a topic here on the forums if it has been pushed back, or something like that.

The easiest way to start this would be a glossary ... which I keep on asking for

Antoine's latest additions will be very useful for this, as next to the model link a further link for model identification and extra infos could be placed. This then leads to the glossary which can supply additional information that is useful and informative. The same 'model info' link can be used for each individual entry, e.g. next to the 'IMDb' link.

That could be a good idea indeed.

I agree. Links to short articles and info about vehicles is a good idea.

Don't forget the Camry guide I made! (If you haven't taken a look yet: http://forum.imcdb.org/forum_topic-3288-Toyota_Camry.html )

Anyway, yes I think this is a wonderful idea! I would love to make many more guides as I pay attention to many year-to-year and generation-to-generation changes on most cars, especially ones no one else seems to care much about like Toyotas and Hondas. The problem is, to make a year-to-year encyclopedia for every car ever made would be a whole lot of data. Maybe a whole seperate site would be needed...

Info could be put on Wikipedia but maybe they would not like to have so much detail.
Else http://cars.wikia.com could be used too, but again it is not really fitting what we would here.
Maybe we could start a new site on wikia.com, or rather I could put a wiki system on imcdb server (as having history of changes would be useful, I suppose?)

Perhaps a wiki system on the imcdb server would be good? I don't know what would be easier.