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"eBay's personalized shopping service My Vehicles now has more than 1 million registered vehicles. The service originally rolled out to users in the summer of 2011, and eBay plans to announce that it has surpassed the one million mark later today.\nMy Vehicles is a personalized virtual \u201Cgarage\u201D where owners can upload information about the vehicles they own in order to create a tailored eBay shopping experience when it comes to that vehicle. For instance, if you're the proud owner of a shiny red 1963 Corvette, creating a My Vehicles profile will customize your search results for car parts to favor parts for your vette. \nA social profile for your ride, My Vehicles profile pages can be public or private with the public option offering you the option to brag about your wheels. Car enthusiasts can upload up to 24 photos of their vehicles to share with others, and the site offers a permalink for your car's profile as well as Facebook and Twitter integration for when you want to take that sharing off eBay. \n\n\u201CCar fanatics love to swap stories and information about their passion more so than others, especially those with similar model vehicles and genres, such as muscle cars, collector cars, etc.,\" Danny Chang, Head of Marketing and Site Experience, eBay Motors told Mashable. \"They want to share their vehicles and modifications, and also be inspired by new ideas they may not have thought of. The social aspect of My Vehicles provides a simple way to do this at scale, to reach many more like-minded enthusiasts quickly, not to mention the ability for everyday drivers and enthusiasts alike to easily find parts that fit their car.\"\nTweets about vehicles from the service are adorned with the #MyVehicles hashtag and a link to that individual's car on eBay. eBay sees it as way for car enthusiasts to reach out to one another about their vehicles and potentially make a connection.\n\u201CCertainly people like to show their cars off to their friends and followers on Facebook and Twitter, and interact with those who might congratulate them on a new car or comment on how cool their ride is,\" says Chang. \"But there are also people who may see a vehicle come through with the My Vehicles hashtag on Twitter, click the link to view the vehicle profile, and then reach out to the person on Twitter to ask them questions about the car, modifications, etc.\"\nToday's one million users announcement refers to visits to the My Vehicles experience that resulted in a user registering a vehicle (or multiple vehicles) and parking it in their \u201Cgarage.\u201D The total doesn't account for eBay users who may have multiple user accounts or have cars parked in several different accounts. \nThe actual number of vehicles on My Vehicles is much higher than one million. Ebay says that it has 1,370,000 cars, trucks, and motorcycles currently parked in virtual garages on the site, with over 250,000 users parking more than two vehicles in their virtual garage.\nAs for popularity, Chevy is the most saved vehicle brand on the service with more than 236,000 saves. Ford, Dodge, Toyota and Honda round out the top five respectively. \nThe Ford F-150 is the most saved model of vehicle saved on the service, with more than 42,000 of the pickups saved. The Ford Mustang, Honda Civic, Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and Dodge Ram 1500 are also amongst the top five.\nAre any of you currently using eBay's My Vehicles? Let us know what you think about the service in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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