MotorMouths: An API Provider that Reviews Cars. »

Buying a car is stressful. Getting access to useful, trustworthy information helps. MotorMouths.com pulls together the best reviews for all new cars in the market today. Mashable described them as, "The RottenTomatoes of car reviews." To do this, MotorMouths gathers thousands of reviews from leading critics and then calculates an overall score for every car, based on the average of individual critics' scores. So, for example notice the critic's versus the average score for the Hyundai Genesis:

MotorMouths uses Apigee to gather stats for their own API, so we asked them to share their experience and insight:

What insights into your app or other benefits have you gotten from working with Apigee?

Jeff Smick: We get a much better sense of when and how our affiliates are consuming our API. We can gather a lot of data with Google Analytics on the frontend. Without Apigee gathering data about API usage would have required us to implement our own stats system. As a very small, fast moving, bootstrapped company we wouldn't have had the time to do so.

What new Apigee feature would you most like to see from Apigee?

Jeff Smick: I'd like to see the error code in the error reports. Apigee provides a good overview of which urls are producing errors, but no breakdown as to what those errors are. We use error codes to let API consumers know that they're unauthorized or doing something bad. So it'd be nice to separate those from the true errors.

What mashup or app do you admire that uses the same API(s)?

Jeff Smick: I've always been a big fan of Twitter's API. They've been doing a great job from day one. We also consume the grader.com APIs (twitter grader and blog grader) which are easy to use.

The next time your shopping for a car and want to do some consumer research, do it the fast and simple way by going to MotorMouths.