* 1949 – David Robinson, American drummer ( The Modern Lovers, DMZ, and The Cars )

In the summer of 1979, Brood tried to enter the American market, where he toured as a support-act for The Kinks, The Cars, and Foreigner.

* 1948 – Todd Rundgren, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( Nazz, Utopia, The New Cars, and Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band )

In May 2011, Porsche Cars North America announced plans to spend $ 80 –$ 100 million, but will receive about $ 15 million in economic incentives to move their North American headquarters from Sandy Springs, a suburb of Atlanta, to Aerotropolis Atlanta, a new mixed-use development on the site of the old Ford Hapeville plant adjacent to Atlanta's airport.

Cars with rotary engines were built by American companies Adams-Farwell, Bailey, Balzer and Intrepid, amongst others.

Beverly Kimes, editor of the Standard Catalog of American Cars, terms the Royale " the most fabulous Reo of all ".

* 1947 – Benjamin Orr, American singer-songwriter and bass player ( The Cars ) ( d. 2000 )

In July 2007, the W. W. Norton Company published The Lincoln Highway, Coast-to-Coast from Times Square to the Golden Gate: The Great American Road Trip by Michael Wallis, best-selling author of Route 66, and voice in the movie Cars, and Michael Williamson, twice a Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer with The Washington Post.

* Sterling Sports Cars, an American automobile kit company

* Jaguar Cars and Land Rover vehicles North American Headquarters

Volvo Cars of North America, Customer Relations, a Swedish company that manufactures safety-oriented automobiles, maintains an American headquarters in Rockleigh.

By creating an unprecedented tax-incentived mechanism ( wherein each investor received a specially personalized Lotus Turbo Esprit ), the new American company, Lotus Performance Cars Inc. ( LPCI ), was able to provide fresh capital to the Group Lotus in the United Kingdom.

* Kimes, Beverly Rae, and Clark, Henry Austin, Jr. Standard Catalog of American Cars, 1805-1942 ( second edition ).

* American Specialty Cars, an automobile parts manufacturer

Fear Factory, an American industrial metal band, recorded a version of " Cars " and released it as the second single from their third studio album, Obsolete.

In 2004, American car magazine Sports Car International named this car number three on the list of Top Sports Cars of the 1970s, and it was listed as number ten on their list of Top Sports Cars of the 1980s.

Combined with the effects of the strong British currency, Rover was losing money, and recovering lost ground with the facelifted car and its coupe sister was not deemed possible, and Rover Cars announced its withdrawal from the North American market in August 1991.

* Flammang, James M. & Kowlake, Ron, Standard Catalog of American Cars: 1976-199, 3rd Edition ( Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 1999 )

* Gunnell, John, Standard Catalog of American Cars: 1946-1975, Revised 4th Edition ( Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2002 )

* " American Dream Cars " collection from the 1950s

* Flammang, James M. & Kowlake, Ron, Standard Catalog of American Cars: 1976-199, 3rd Edition ( Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 1999 )

* Gunnell, John, Standard Catalog of American Cars: 1946-1975, Revised 4th Edition ( Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2002 )

The original American bands included Talking Heads, The Cars, and Devo.

*" Chasing Cars ", a song by the Northern Irish alternative rock band Snow Patrol

After the radio trade publication R & R listed " Cars " as the most added track on both active rock and mainstream rock in May 1999, the song earned " Breaker " status and continued to surge up the chart.

* On his Bewilderness DVD, Bill Bailey demonstrates how West Country dialects are unsuited to great rock and pop music by performing a short West Country-themed version of " Cars ", beginning with the line "' Ere in moi carr ...".

The chain was founded by Robert Rook, a lawyer and self-declared hippie who has worked closely with the homeless, Vietnam war protesters, civil and gay rights advocates, and numerous rock bands such as Aerosmith, U2, Boston, The Cars, and James Brown.

Other notable fans and supporters of WFMU include Neutral Milk Hotel frontman Jeff Mangum, Kurt Cobain, screenwriter / director Ethan Coen, MAKE magazine editor-in-chief and Boing Boing co-founder Mark Frauenfelder, Led Zeppelin lead singer Robert Plant, musician Suzanne Vega, artist Cindy Sherman, indie rock superstar Ted Leo, Sonic Youth guitarists Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore, comic book artist and writer Evan Dorkin, film director, producer and actor Kevin Smith, musician Moby, The Cars vocalist / record producer Ric Ocasek, musician Max Tundra, television talk-show host Conan O ' Brien, comedian and broadcaster Phill Jupitus, and Blixa Bargeld, singer of the German band Einstürzende Neubauten.

The band share a strong interest in a wide variety of bands, from classic rock such as The Beach Boys, Squeeze and The Cars, to more contemporary acts such as Lifetime, Foo Fighters, Sunny Day Real Estate, Neutral Milk Hotel, Kevin Devine, Built To Spill, Nirvana, and Radiohead.

Because of its depiction of teenage rebellion, drug and alcohol use by junior high school students, its depiction of suburban life in the late 1970s, and a rock music soundtrack featuring such bands as Cheap Trick and The Cars, Over the Edge has achieved cult film status, and was an inspiration for the music video for the song " Smells Like Teen Spirit " by Nirvana.

* David Robinson ( musician ) ( born 1949 ), American rock drummer who has played with The Modern Lovers, DMZ, The Cars and The Scabs

He has performed with many rock bands including The Modern Lovers, DMZ and The Cars.

On 23 August 1989, Porizkova married Ric Ocasek, lead singer for the rock band The Cars.

Their music is reminiscent of British Invasion rock and 1980s pop, and has been compared to The Beatles, The Cars, Jellyfish, Sloan and Blur.

He can also be seen in Turbocharge-the Unauthorized Story of the Cars, a comedy biopic about 80's rock band The Cars, playing the role of Cars ' manager Elliot Roberts in his usual deadpan comedic delivery.

Evolving from Melbourne's indie rock scene, The Zorros played with other bands such as INXS, Rose Tattoo, 21 Faces, Z Cars, Marching Girls and La Femme.

Lisa Miskovsky quickly placed herself on the Swedish rock music charts with her debut album Lisa Miskovsky and single " Driving One of Your Cars ", with Swedish releases in 2001.

The band opened three shows for The Cars at Madison Square Garden and the Nassau Coliseum between their own headline gigs at smaller area venues.

* Greg Hawkes, keyboardist for new wave band The Cars

* Ric Ocasek, lead singer of 1980s band The Cars

Joe Smith, under whose leadership resulted in the biggest market share and gross revenues Elektra Asylum was to have, inherited the A & R services of Chuck Plotkin, famed later for producing many of Bruce Springsteen's greatest records, followed up by George Daly, who is credited as bringing in seminal New Wave band The Cars, setting Elektra, again, on another artist direction.

The music video featured Numan's then-current backing band, including Billy Currie from the band Ultravox, though he had not actually played on the recording of " Cars ".

According to Bell, around 1996, the band started performing " Cars " as an encore at European concerts.

" He added that, while other songs were considered, the band chose " Cars " because all the band members knew and appreciated it and because the keyboards suited Fear Factory's sound.

He currently sings and plays bass in the band Before Cars.

* Snow Patrol, a UK band known for hits such as " Chasing Cars ", " Run ", and " Crack the Shutters "

During the sessions, Hamburger was backed by musicians including Prairie Prince of The Tubes and Todd Rundgren's band, David Gleason, Atom Ellis of Dieselhed and The New Cars, Rachel Haden from that dog.

The band is best known for their 1996 hit song " Counting Blue Cars.

In 1996, the single " Counting Blue Cars " from the album Pet Your Friends climbed the charts and was frequently played on the airwaves, bringing the band mainstream success.

The band also recorded a cover of The Cars song " Dangerous Type " for the major motion picture The Craft.

Door To Door is the sixth studio album by American new wave band The Cars, released in 1987.

His band toured with The Joe Perry Project, The Cars, and Alice Cooper, and performed on Don Kirshner's syndicated Rock Concert television programme.

Albums released by the band The Cars.

The band went under many names including The Police Cars, The Police Sleighs, The Donut Dunkers Of Death and finally The Love Pirates Of Doom, the most settled line up being Wallis, Sanderson, drummer George Butler ( ex-Lightning Raiders ) and second guitarist Andy Colquhoun ( ex-Warsaw Pakt & Tanz Der Youth ).