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Top: Business: Automotive

Please submit sites about the automotive industry to this category.

Sites about general manufacturing, even if the products is used by the automotive industry, should be submitted to Industrial Goods and Services.

Please submit sites primarily selling products online to the most appropriate category within the Shopping branch as they will not be listed here.

This is not a category for consumer services or car dealerships. Please submit those sites into appropriate subcategories of Regional or Recreation/Autos.

This category will list the companies that manufacture and support the manufacture of automotive products. Automotive is defined as vehicles that are self powered such as cars, trucks, racing cars, snowmobiles and motorcycles.

Auto Racing

This category is limited to racing manufacturers. Please submit sites for manufacturers of parts for passenger cars to the appropriate subcategories in Business/Automotive/Parts_and_Accessories.
This category is for manufacturers specializing in parts and components for auto racing. This includes both professional and amateur racing.

By Region

Please submit all sites to their correct location and category.

This category contains links to World Regions that have countries with automobile and automotive related sites.

Car Rentals

This category lists only global car rental companies or resources for travellers interested in renting cars.
  • Local rental car companies (those with outlets in a single city, state, province, or country) will only be listed in the most appropriate Regional category.
  • Car rental brokers or consolidators should be submitted to the Consolidators category.
This category lists only global car rental companies or general resources for travellers interested in renting cars.

Education and Training

Please submit your site to the most appropriate subcategory, if one exists, to avoid delays.

Sites related to Automotive training and education.

Employment

Please read and follow the guidelines carefully.

Appropriate submissions would include sites listing available Automotive jobs, firms which specialize in Automotive job placement, and informational sites on Automotive careers.

Review the subcategories and select the single most appropriate category for your site. Failure to submit to the most specific appropriate category or subcategory can delay the consideration of your submission. Misplaced sites will be moved prior to review; correct placement helps avoids delays.

Agencies and individuals which offer Automotive employment services or information to a specific region or locality should submit to the appropriate location in Top: Regional. These sites are placed based on the geographic area served.

Excluded from this category are:

• Individual job postings (i.e. the "help wanted" section of an employer's website) are not listed in the Open Directory due to their inherent transient nature.

Contains sites offering employment opportunities in the automotive industry.

Financial Services

Includes automotive lending, insurance, and credit companies and the companies that support them.

Kit Cars and Replicas

This category covers companies that manufacture kit-cars and replicas.

Marketing and Advertising

Submission to this category supports ODP's general submission policy. This category includes advertising and marketing company websites which provide advertising and marketing services for the automotive industry. All submission should follow the ODP's submission policy. Please submit only the sites that advertise and market the automotive industry including auto dealerships, auto parts and services related.

This category includes advertising and marketing company websites which provide advertising and marketing services for the automotive industry. These sites could include any marketing/advertising web pages for automotive dealerships and any parts or services related to the industry.

Marketplaces

This is not a category for auto dealerships. Please submit only sites which are online marketplaces for automotive industry goods and services.

  • Online sales of automobiles, parts, and services to consumers should be submitted to the most appropriate subcategory of Shopping/Vehicles.
  • Automobile dealerships should be submitted to the locality in which they are located in the Regional branch.
E-commerce marketplaces facilitate interactions and transactions between buyers and sellers within the automobile industry.

Motorcycles

This category is for manufacturers of Motorcycles, if offering sale over the internet of Motorcycles and/or parts please submit to .
This category is for manufacturers of Motorcycles.

News and Media

URLs listed in this category should offer automotive content of value to the reader, beyond subscriptions or items for sale.

Sites which are only for subscriptions, or which publish only classified ads or other for-sale content should be submitted to Shopping/Classifieds/Automotive or other appropriate category.

Enthusiast sites should be listed in Recreation/Autos/Enthusiasts or the appropriate subcategory.

If your news or magazine site caters to a more specialised auto subject please submit it to the appropriate News and Ezines category for that subject if one exists (several are listed on this category page). If not then you should still consider whether it would be better placed in the general category for your subject matter.

This category includes sites that offer news and/or articles about the automotive industry with a business rather than a general interest or enthusiast focus.

Off-Road

This category is limited to offroad vehicles manufacturers. Please submit sites for manufacturers of parts for passenger cars to the appropriate subcategories in Business/Automotive/Parts_and_Accessories.
This category is for manufacturers specializing in parts and components for offroad vehicles. This includes both professional and amateur.

Parts and Accessories

This category lists sites for automotive parts manufacturers. Parts refer to any part that is used in an automobile. The category covers both OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) and After Market replacement parts manufacturers.

If your URL offers shopping it should be listed in Shopping: Vehicles: Parts and Accessories

If your URL is a distributor it should be listed in Business: Industries: Wholesale: Vehicles

This category lists sites for automotive parts manufacturers. Parts refer to any part that is used in an automobile. The category covers both OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) and After Market replacement parts manufacturers.

Automotive OE's buy parts from all over the world and frequently buy systems rather than parts. (e.g. they buy brake systems rather than separate brake parts)

Some of these manufacturers are tier 1 (they sell directly to the automotive OE's) others are tier 2 (they sell to the tier 1 manufacturers)

Recreational Vehicles

Please submit only sites about manufacturers of vehicles that are used as housing while camping. Other vehicles used for recreation such as ATVs, dune buggies, karts, dirt bikes, 4x4s, and others should be sent to the appropriate category. They will not be listed here.

The title should be the official name of the site. If the site is for a business, please give the official name of the business as the title.

When describing the site, include pertinent information such as location and services offered. Do NOT use any sales hype such as "Best RVs in the world!"

Recreational Vehicle manufacturers are companies that build Recreational Vehicles. Recreational Vehicles are vehicles designed for recreational use in camping. These include pop-ups, truck campers, Class A motorhomes, Class B motorhomes (conversion vans), Class C motorhomes (mini motorhomes), travel trailers, 5th wheel travel trailers, and caravans.

Retail

Avoid delays! Follow these guidelines for faster review and appropriate placement.

Please submit only sites for automotive retail industry resources, or International automotive retail corporations which offer services in multiple countries . Single locations and state-wide chains are not listed here. These site should be submitted to the appropriate locality, county or state via the By_Region link.

Retailer sites designed as online destinations for distance shopping should be submitted to the appropriate Shopping: Vehicles category.

The Automotive Retail category contains sites for International automotive retail chains or automotive retail industry resources.

Snow Clearing

This category is for manufacturers of snow clearing equipment.

This is not a category for snow removal services or local equipment distributors. Misplaced submissions must be moved, which can significantly delay review!

Sites not listed in this category include:

This category is for manufacturers of snow clearing equipment.

Snowmobiles

Please only submit sites for snowmobile manufacturers and manufacturers of snowmobile parts and accessories to this category.

For manufacturers of snowmobiles and snowmobile parts and accessories.

Specialized Vehicles

This category will list companies that manufacture vehicles other than cars, trucks, vans, competition and RVs. It will also list companies that support the manufacture of specialized vehicles. The general type of vehicles listed in this category will be, snow clearing, school buses, postal vehicles, etc.

Wholesale and Distribution

Companies that also sell to the general public will be considered in the Wholesale/ category only if those sales are a MINOR part of company's trading. Double listing in both Shopping/ and other Business/ categories will be extremely rare and considered on a case by case basis.

NO company whose primary focus is to sell to the general public will be listed in Wholesale/.

These are also sites of which the primary focus is to allow the consumer to select and obtain goods and services over the Web belong to the Shopping and shall NOT be listed in the Wholesale/

NO company that produces/manufactures goods will be listed in the Wholesale/ under any circumstances. No sites are listed at the top level of Wholesale/

Vehicles/

Companies that sell new or used vehicles in bulk are listed here in appropriate sub categories.

Wholesale

The Wholesale Trade sector comprises establisments engaged in wholesaling merchandise, generally without transformation, and rendering services incidental to the sale of merchandise.

The wholesaling process is an intermediate step in the distribution of merchandise. Wholesalers are organised to sell or arrange the purchase of sale of (a) goods for resale (i.e. goods sold to other wholesalers or retailers), (b) capital or durable nonconsumer goods, and (c) raw and intermediate materials and supplies used in production.

Wholesale/ contains sites of companies of whose primary focus is to purchase goods and merchandise from producers and manufacturers and to sell them to re-sellers in bulk.

Business/Wholesale_Trade

Wholesale/ lists the sites of companies which concentrate to the definition (a) above.


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