A vehicle information identification method applicable in the technical field of automobile services, comprising the following steps: according to a communications protocol, establishing communication with a vehicle to be detected (101); sending an ECU data request to the vehicle to be detected such that an ECU of the vehicle acquires and returns ECU data of the vehicle according to the request, the ECU data comprising hexadecimal vehicle identification number (VIN) data (102); receiving the data which is returned by the vehicle to be detected (103); according to the type of the vehicle to be detected and by means of a hexadecimal-American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) code operation or a hexadecimal high and low position recombination algorithm, calculating a VIN corresponding to the vehicle to be detected by using the returned ECU data (104); in a preset VIN database, matching information of a vehicle which corresponds to the VIN corresponding to the vehicle to be detected (105). A VIN o