How Camberly works

Manufacturer sources
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Camberly vehicle knowledge     what we record, with its source
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Calculations & benchmarks      arithmetic you can check
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Camberly intelligence          scores and assessments, with reasons
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Clear explanations
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You make the decision

A specification is a fact. A benchmark is arithmetic over facts. An assessment is Camberly's reading of those numbers. These are different kinds of claim, and mixing them into one confident voice is how car advice usually goes wrong.

So a strength on a vehicle page always shows the benchmark beneath it, and a score always carries the methodology, its version and how much of its input was actually available.

• Fill a missing specification with a plausible guess.
• Report a feature as unavailable when we simply have not confirmed it. “Not confirmed” and “not available” are different answers and are shown differently.
• Publish a score built on a minority of its inputs.
• Publish an assessment without enough comparable vehicles.
• Rank cars as better or worse overall.

A comparison shows where each car is stronger and what that costs you elsewhere. Which trade-off suits you depends on what you need the car for, and Camberly does not know that.

Every published figure records its source and the date it was confirmed. Prices are stored as dated observations rather than a single current value, so a price change adds to the history instead of erasing it.

Read the data methodology for how sourcing, confidence and completeness actually work.