title: Car make & model lookup?
body: <p>I'm designing a used car sales website and the client would like for customers looking to sell their car to have the ability to enter their car registration number plate, and for the site to pull back the make and model automatically.</p>
  
  <p>There are many sites that do this (http://www.halfords.com / <a href="http://www.gocompare.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.gocompare.com</a> / <a href="http://www.confused.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.confused.com</a> / etc)</p>
  
  <p>But I'm drawing a blank with several hours of googling providing nothing of use.</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone provide a clue?</p>
  
  <h2>EDIT:</h2>
  
  <p>The sites listed allow a user to put their registration into the site, and it tells them what make and model the car is.</p>
  
  <p>I wan't to replicate this functionality on the website I am designing.
  OBVIOUSLY they have a giant database, or more likely access to a webservice somewhere which gives them the details.</p>
  
  <p>But I cannot find said service or database.</p>
  
  <p>Please can you provide information on where to look?</p>
  
  <h2>EDIT 2:</h2>
  
  <p>Basically.. I'm after a UK version of this service: <a href="http://www.webservices.nl/en/1156/vehicle" rel="nofollow">http://www.webservices.nl/en/1156/vehicle</a></p>