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cars-data.com — Car Specs API MCP Server

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cars-data.com — Car Specs API is answering right now. Last checked 1 min ago. It exposes 6 tools. Last commit 27 Jul 2026.

Search, compare & filter 102,191 European car variants — 180 specs, 19 languages, EV data.

Uptime history 40 hours of history
40 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
6
Tools
read from the server
1094 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 27 Jul 2026

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 1 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add car-specs-api --transport http https://api.cars-data.com/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "car-specs-api": {
      "url": "https://api.cars-data.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.car-specs-api]
url = "https://api.cars-data.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "car-specs-api": {
      "url": "https://api.cars-data.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "car-specs-api": {
      "url": "https://api.cars-data.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 6

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

cars
search_cars
Free-text search across 102,191 vehicle variants, 116 brands, 19 languages. Returns candidate variant_ids to pass to get_specs/get_images/compare_variants. Each result carries generation_id and year_from/year_to so same-named variants from different generations can be told apart.
compare
compare_variants
Side-by-side localized specs for 2-4 vehicle variants.
filter
filter_cars
Structured catalog filter: fuel type, body type, drive layout, power/price range, model year, EV-only.
generations
list_generations
Generations/facelifts of a model, with production years.
images
get_images
Image URLs (own CDN, no attribution burden) for a vehicle variant.
specs
get_specs
Full localized specs for one vehicle variant, in any of 19 languages — 180 spec types covering engine & fuel, performance, EV/hybrid, safety (30 specs), comfort & interior (47), exterior, chassis, dimensions & weights, consumption (WLTP/NEDC). Each spec carries a confidence score; the response carries last_synced_at — surface both so you don't overstate certainty.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://api.cars-data.com/mcp streamable-http answering 1494 ms 1 min ago

cars-data.com — Car Specs API — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can cars-data.com — Car Specs API do?
It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: compare_variants, filter_cars, get_images, get_specs, list_generations, search_cars. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is cars-data.com — Car Specs API working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 1094 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect cars-data.com — Car Specs API?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does cars-data.com — Car Specs API need an API key?
No. cars-data.com — Car Specs API completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is cars-data.com — Car Specs API?
It answers our handshake in 1094 ms on average, which is faster than 4% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is cars-data.com — Car Specs API open source?
Yes — written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.