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vehicle.make

Make · Marke

Trade name of the manufacturer as in registration field D.1 or CoC item 0.1, without model or configuration; not the legal name of the manufacturer (CoC item 0.5).

Key
vehicle.make
Row name (BT-160)
Marke [vehicle.make]
Make [vehicle.make]

The bare key vehicle.make is also accepted.

Tier
Core
Status
draft
Representation term
Name (implicit)
Value format
text, NFC, trimmed, no control or bidi characters, first character not = + - @, 1-60 characters
Grammar
^(?![=+@\s-])(?!.*\s$)[^\x00-\x1F\x7F\u200E\u200F\u202A-\u202E\u2066-\u2069]{1,60}$
Unit
none
Code list
none
Required when
MUST whenever known, all roles
Statutory feature
No
Repeatable
No, at most one row per line
Anchors
  • Directive 1999/37/EC code D.1 'make'
  • CoC item 0.1 'Make (trade name of manufacturer)'
  • informative: CII BrandName, STAR Make, schema.org brand
Carrier and binding
BG-32: BT-160 'Marke [vehicle.make]', BT-161 'Volkswagen'. Factur-X EXTENDED MAY also mirror it in ram:BrandName (the row stays)
Values in the test corpus
  • Volkswagen
  • Skoda
Crosswalk (informative)

schema.org brand; CII BrandName; STAR Make (NCIC make code)

informative; names and IRIs of third-party works, CC BY 4.0, sources stated; VDA 4938: reprint with source

Source and changes
registry/keys/make.yaml · Propose a change