Maximise Your Potential

Since the first vehicles rolled off the assembly line, automotive companies have relied on Polk’s vast experience and information resources to help drive their business. Our PARC data provides you with detailed information about the global vehicle population including passenger cars, light commercial and heavy commercial vehicles for 40 countries . Our comprehensive data represents about 90% of the global PARC including Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, North America, Australia, Japan and selected Asian and South American countries.

Whether you are an automotive manufacturer, a parts supplier, or a service provider, we can help you meet your most challenging business questions such as:

• What is the aftermarket volume by country?
• What is the relevant market share?
• What is the age of the vehicle population?
• What is the parts potential for my aftermarket supply?
• What is the future development?
• What is the potential of PARC by market or geographic area linked to the TecDoc K-Type Number?

Polk offers the most complete data accessed through an intuitive query tool to help you quickly and easily move your business forward.

Regional PARC for Europe

For 22 countries in Europe, Polk can provide PARC data at a sub-national level. This data conforms to the NUTS3 regional format and provides TecDoc matched information for more than 1,200 regions such as Kreise in Germany, Departments in France and at the Postcode or community level in some countries.

PARC Potentials for the Aftermarket

Polk has coded the PARC registration volume data to the European aftermarket’s preferred vehicle identification standard – TecDoc. This provides vehicle volumes identified by part number so you can rapidly discover market potential and opportunity. This vehicle to part link has been completed for all of the major component suppliers. For the top 50 manufacturers, we have achieved a 90% match rate for Western Europe. A similar product is available for the North America and Asian regions.

Polk enhances the process of market potential definition by linking the PARC database to its comprehensive European vehicle and parts application information database, EURO-AMS . This permits the provision of the most accurate parts potential by comparing the production dates of the vehicles and the application periods for each OE-reference. This PARC potential for parts and components is available at both national and regional levels.

High Data Quality

Polk sources its data from authorised registration authorities, associations and statistical offices throughout the world. Our 30 years of experience in developing scientific processes and procedures ensures that our data is of the highest quality. This powerful information provides you with:

• Manufacturer, model and body type
• Fuel type, engine size and power
• Fuel system type and emission type
• Engine manufacturer and engine model
• Number of cylinders and cylinder configuration
• Gross vehicle weight
• Wheels driven

Reliable Forecasts

Polk has a long and distinguished history of providing forecasts to the automotive industry. We provide extensive PARC forecasts for many countries at both a segment and model level.

Polk incorporates many factors including economic, business and its proprietary model policy to develop forecasts which are extensively used in many industry sectors. Based on our forecasting technology, we are able to provide reliable forecasts for PARC development for the next five years.

Advanced Systems Solution

Polk provides access to PARC data through an intuitive query tool. It permits the generation and execution of queries to analyse the total car PARC for one or several countries. The results can be either displayed in tables or graphs and can be exported to all common office productivity tools or as data extracts.

PARC - Key Features and Benefits

• Worldwide coverage – more than 90% of global PARC
• Highest quality data
• Intuitive query system
• Comprehensive vehicle detail
• Reliable forecasts for strategic and tactical planning
• Parts potential for the aftermarket
• Regional detail
• Link to TecDoc K-Type-Number