Happy 18th anniversary to Autocade

A lot has happened in the last 18 years, with print yearbooks, a members' site, and earning international recognition.

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Happy 18th to Autocade

Eighteen may be a lucky number in the Cantonese culture but it’s not an anniversary you typically remember, so Autocade’s passed earlier this month without fanfare. March 8, 2008 was when the first entries went up. The oldest I can trace on the Wayback Machine and on the site itself is the Renault Mégane II’s,

Jack Yan: the Persuader Blog
Some concerning traffic patterns here on #Autocade. Not a single IP address but a lot of traffic—yet the user agents all suggest they are using Mozilla on Mac. Likely to be a coordinated bot net scraping or attacking?
Black Friday sale at https://libriz.co and that includes our #Autocade Year of Cars volumes! Ten per cent off store-wide, just use code BF12026 at the check-out. The code is valid for two goes per customer. Offer ends once the clock ticks over to the 14th.

The digital flip-book edition of #Autocade Year of Cars 2026 is now online (paywalled).

https://autocade.world/2026/02/autocade-year-of-cars-2026-online/

Reaching 5,600 models on Autocade; Yema completed—a sign of consolidation

With the Yema Spica, we’ve reached 5,600 models on Autocade. The EC30 EV version of the Chinese MPV was number 5,601. Again, it’s not the most glamorous or desirable model for the milestone, but it deserves a spot as much as any saloon or supercar. This also completes the Yema-branded cars for

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Chosen because this is typical, not because I want to prove something. These are the sampled logs of traffic to #Autocade. On any given page, we have two legitimate entries, and the rest are illegitimate bots (“#AI” scrapers and hackers).

#WordWeavers 25.12.30 How has your writing been this year? Any achievements/wins/lessons you want to celebrate?

Wrote fewer features and books compared with 2024, but I did finish the new #Autocade Year of Cars annual a few weeks earlier. So the Christmas lead-up was less stressful. Like so many things, you have to make the time, and I found it a little harder to find it in 2025.

The price of having ethics. I could probably get the email addresses of everyone who ordered #Autocade annuals in previous years and inform them that the latest is out. However, only a handful registered as users; most people shopped without signing up. If we were some awful US tech firm, that wouldn’t matter. As we’re not, I could only legitimately contact a small percentage of our customers. If anyone wants to help me spread the word …

https://lucire.biz/product/autocade-year-of-cars-2026-hardcover/ #AutocadeYearOfCars #bookstodon

Autocade Year of Cars 2026 (hardcover) – Libriz