Editorial Policy, Sourcing & Corrections

Editor

Ajit Narayan Singh — Editor, Nepal AutoMart (LinkedIn).

Ajit Narayan Singh is the Editor of Nepal AutoMart, responsible for pricing accuracy, specification verification, sourcing standards, and corrections across the platform.

The Editor is responsible for the standards on this page: pricing accuracy, specification verification, sourcing, and the handling of corrections. Questions or corrections can be sent to [email protected].

Where our data comes from

We anchor vehicle data to the official Nepal distributorfor each brand wherever one exists — their published price lists, brochures, and specification pages are our primary source. When a distributor source is unavailable, we fall back, in order, to the manufacturer’s global specifications and established market references, and we label the data accordingly.

• New vehicle ex-showroom prices: official Nepal distributor price lists and brochures
• Specifications: distributor and manufacturer technical sources, cross-checked across variants
• Tax, duty, and registration: Nepal government Finance Acts, tax schedules, and NRB / DoTM notices
• Insurance: the Nepal Insurance Authority tariff and licensed insurers
• Used-market values: our own analysis of listings, modelled against replacement cost — always shown as an estimate

How we verify and keep data fresh

Verification is largely automated and runs continuously, not as a one-off. Automated checks re-read distributor price lists and specification pages on a daily cycle and flag any figure that has drifted from our stored value for review before it is corrected.

• Daily distributor price and specification re-checks, with automatic flagging of changes
• Price-change and new-variant detection from Nepal news, re-verified against the distributor before any update
• A “last verified” or “specs verified” date shown on vehicle pages so you can see how current a figure is
• Image and content quality checks to keep photos and descriptions accurate to the vehicle

How our articles are made

Our news stories, reviews and comparisons are drafted with AI. We publish around a hundred articles a week, and a large language model writes the first draft of each one from an evidence pack: the prices and specifications held in our vehicle catalog, the distributor and manufacturer documents behind them, and — for news — the reports the story is about. Reviews are written from those specifications and that evidence, not from a first-hand road test, unless a review explicitly says otherwise.

A draft is not published on the model’s word. Automated checks run before and after publication, and these are the ones that apply to every article:

• Price checks. Every rupee figure in an article is matched against our catalog and against the sources the draft was written from. A launch price that appears in no source and contradicts the catalog is removed before publication — the catalog price is authoritative, and a figure nobody published is never printed.
• Distributor first. The catalog those checks read follows a fixed order of authority: the official Nepal distributor's own price list and specification pages first, and only where the distributor does not publish a figure, agreement between independent market references and then the manufacturer's specifications. A price or specification is never copied from a sibling variant.
• AI judges for the hard calls. Where a decision cannot be settled by a fixed rule — whether two names are the same vehicle, whether a model is actually on sale in Nepal, whether a disputed price is real — the system asks a separate AI judge, grounded in the evidence it found (Google Gemini first, with Perplexity and then Anthropic Claude as fallbacks). An answer is acted on only if it is grounded and confident enough; a destructive change such as retiring a model needs two agreeing votes.
• No competing portal as a source. We do not cite or link other Nepal auto-news portals as the source of a figure. Source links on our pages point only to a brand's or distributor's own website, or to our own coverage.
• Attribution filter. A draft that relays someone else's review as if it were ours — “the reviewer felt”, “in the video”, a named outlet or a raw link — is caught and rewritten, or not published at all if the rewrite would drop a hedge such as “reportedly”, so an article never passes off another publication's test as our own.
• Research-note filter. Notes the AI writes about its own research — for example that a spec sheet “was not found” — are working notes, not facts about the vehicle. They are filtered out before they can appear as a pro, a con or a specification, and private source notes never reach a public page.
• Coherence checks after publication. Published articles are re-read against the live catalog, and a headline or body figure that no longer matches the vehicle's current price is repaired.
• A public correction log. Every change to a published price or specification is recorded with the old value, the new value and the date, and that record is public.

The Editor, Ajit Narayan Singh, is accountable for this pipeline: setting the sourcing and accuracy rules it enforces, reviewing what it flags, and handling corrections. Individual articles are not all hand-edited before they go live; the rules above are what every one of them has to pass. If you find something wrong, email [email protected] and it will be checked against the source.

Confirmed data vs estimates vs opinion

We label these three differently and never present one as another:

• Confirmed data — ex-showroom prices and specifications sourced from a distributor or manufacturer, with a verification date.
• Estimates — used-vehicle values, on-road totals, EMI figures, and any price for a model not yet officially launched in Nepal. These are clearly marked as estimates or predictions, never as quotes.
• Editorial analysis — our assessment of whether a vehicle suits a buyer, based on its stated specifications, price, and market position. Where we describe how a vehicle performs, we mean the manufacturer's stated figures and our analysis, not a first-hand road test, unless a review explicitly states otherwise.

Final prices always depend on variant, colour, offers, and dealer terms — confirm the exact figure with the authorized dealer before purchase.

Corrections policy

If you find a price, specification, or dealer detail that is wrong or out of date, tell us and we will check it against the source and correct it. Because our data is verified against distributor sources on a daily cycle, most confirmed errors are corrected quickly.

• Report an error by email to [email protected], ideally with the page link and the correct figure or source.
• We verify the report against the official source before changing published data.
• When we correct a figure, the page's verification date is updated to reflect the change.
• Every correction is written to an audit log with the old value, the new value and the date.

That log is public. See our corrections record — how many prices and specifications we have had to correct, on which vehicles, and when, with the 50 most recent listed in full.

We score our forecasts in public too. For a vehicle announced but not yet on sale here we publish an estimated price band rather than a figure, and once the real price arrives the estimate is graded against it — see how close our price predictions were.

Independence

Nepal AutoMart is an independent information service. We are not owned by, and not affiliated with, any manufacturer, distributor, or insurer, and dealers do not pay to change the prices or specifications we publish.