About Us

The Red Book is a pre-eminent provider of vehicle identification and pricing information in Australia, China, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates.

CAR Group Limited (formally carsales.com Ltd)

The Australian publicly listed company purchased all of the The Red Book companies in 2007. Carsales is the largest online automotive classifieds business in Australia and develops world leading technology, advertising and data solutions that drive its business around the world.

Automotive Data Services Pty Ltd.

The company that operates The Red Book stable of publications and data systems is Automotive Data Services Pty Ltd. This company has been researching the Australian automotive market for over seventy years and its success has been based on pedantic and independent research, maintaining credibility and authoritative information.

Automotive Data Services (M) Sdn Bhd

Automotive Data Services Pty Ltd is the majority shareholder in Automotive Data Services (M) Sdn Bhd, a Malaysian company, which provides similar services to the Malaysian automotive, insurance, finance and related industries.

Our Subsidiaries

Automotive Data Services (Thailand) Limited, Automotive Data Services (Beijing) Limited and Auto Information Limited (New Zealand), are wholly owned subsidiaries of the Australian Company and provide similar services to the automotive, insurance and finance industries across the Asia-Pacific region.

Websites for these companies: www.redbook.com.au, www.redbook.net.cn, www.redbook.co.nz and www.redbookasiapacific.com.

The RedBook Databases

In Singapore the databases encompass motor vehicles from 2000.

In Australia, RedBook maintains databases on motor vehicles (from 1960) including Japanese second-hand imports, motorcycles, marine, and caravans.

In New Zealand, the databases encompass motor vehicles (from 1983) including Japanese second-hand imports and motorcycles.

In Thailand, the RedBook database covers all vehicles on the Thai market since 1992.

In China the motor vehicle databases go back to 1995 and in Hong Kong, the databases encompass motor vehicles from 1998.

In Malaysia the motor vehicle databases back to 1990 and the UAE back to 2006.

RedBook clients can access all of the countries databases online.