cars-data.com — Car Specs API MCP Server

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cars-data.com — Car Specs API is answering right now. Last checked 13 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 52 days of history · worst day 90%

52 days agonow

95.6%

Uptime 24h

87 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

1126 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 27 Jul 2026

cars-data.com — Car Specs API does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 98.4% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 13 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

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

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://api.cars-data.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	1058 ms	13 min ago

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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 87 of 91 checks got a reply (95.6%), average response time 1126 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 1126 ms on average, which is faster than 8% 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?

We cannot say either way: written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.