Autodata provides automotive technical information to professionally service, maintain, and repair cars, light commercial vehicles, and motorcycles.

Autodata was established in 1972[1] in Maidenhead, Berkshire, in the UK, producing printed car manuals for owners and enthusiasts to work on their own vehicles.

Although the owners’ manuals continued to be printed up until early 1990s, Autodata had already started to focus the business towards the professional market,[3] producing numerous publications for workshops and garages.

This soon led to Autodata growing internationally, with the professional technical data and guidance becoming used across Europe, the United States and Australasia.

[6] In the same year Autodata opened access to a new API (Application programming interface) based product, allowing organisations to build their own solutions, powered by the databases of Autodata.This was further developed, until being officially launched in 2016.