# Suverse NHTSA Vehicle Types by Make

> Suverse NHTSA Vehicle Types by Make is a paid API for AI agents from proxy.suverse.io, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-16).

Returns the vehicle types (e.g. passenger car, truck) produced by a given vehicle make, sourced from the NHTSA vPIC database without requiring an API key.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://proxy.suverse.io/v1/data/suverse-vehicle-types
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-16
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/suverse-nhtsa-vehicle-types-by-make-71d8fe1b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_75LSIKTqDyv7awwKBXU9J

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability suverse-nhtsa-vehicle-types-by-make-71d8fe1b -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What types of vehicles does Ford make according to NHTSA? I want to know if they produce passenger cars, trucks, or other categories.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to classify or enumerate the vehicle body types associated with a specific manufacturer using authoritative NHTSA data, without needing an API key or managing NHTSA authentication. Ideal for automotive data enrichment pipelines, vehicle inventory classification, or agent workflows that need to validate whether a manufacturer produces a given vehicle category.

## Known failure modes

- Unknown or misspelled make name returns empty result set
- NHTSA upstream API downtime causes proxy failure
- Invalid request body structure returns 400 error
- Make name with special characters may not resolve correctly

## How this service works

Vehicle types produced by a given make from NHTSA vPIC, no key. Returns type id and name such as passenger car or truck. For AI agents classifying vehicles by manufacturer.

## Output

Returns a list of vehicle type objects from NHTSA vPIC, each containing a type ID (numeric) and a type name (e.g. 'Passenger Car', 'Truck', 'Multipurpose Passenger Vehicle (MPV)', 'Motorcycle') associated with the queried vehicle make.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "properties": {}
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST",
      "PUT",
      "PATCH"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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