After suggestions of selling Jaguar Cars, Land Rover or Volvo Cars, Ford appointed UBS AG to sell all or part of Aston Martin by auction and announced the fact in August 2006.

He also provided the voice of The Mayor in the 2009 film Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, the voice of Rod " Torque " Redline in Cars 2 and the voice of " Fugax " in the 2006 film The Ant bully.

** Cars ( film ), a 2006 computer animated film from Disney and Pixar

In the Pixar animation Cars ( 2006 ), a clientele of solely anthropomorphic vehicles requires all hotels be motels where clients drive directly to their rooms ; clever allusions to real Route 66 motels on the US National Register of Historic Places abound.

In 2006, Crow contributed the opening track, " Real Gone ," to the soundtrack for Disney / Pixar's animated film Cars.

Dr. Dieter Zetsche has been the Chairman of Daimler and Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars since January 1, 2006 as well as member of Board of Management since 1998.

* Doc Hudson, an animated version of the Fabulous Hudson Hornet of early-1950's NASCAR racing, appears in the 2006 Disney / Pixar film Cars

The revived U-Drop Inn was featured in the 2006 animated film Cars as the inspiration for the fictional Ramone's body shop.

Later in 2006, Acura announced that the three factory teams would be Andretti Green Racing, Fernández Racing, and Highcroft Racing, and that the chassis would be built by Lola Cars of the UK and Courage Compétition of France.

* Cars ( 2006 )

The current generation of cars have roughly the same power as F1 cars, Champ Cars having 800 hp ( 597 kW ) on demand and F1 cars having about 775 hp ( 578 kW ) ( since F1 switched to V8 engines for the 2006 season ), with the turbo used mainly to improve the spectacle rather than lap-times with the so-called ' power-to-pass ' or ' push-to-pass ' system giving drivers an increased amount of power for a limited duration during the race.

Cars were also produced by AC Cars up until 2006, and since 2009 have been produced by AC Heritage who are licensed by AC to produce 289 and 427 continuations.

Since 2006 Caterham Cars has been run by an ex-Lotus management team led by Ansar Ali ( CEO ) and Mark Edwards ( COO ).

In Pixar's Cars ( 2006 ), sponsors of the original NASCAR vehicles were replaced with fictional or parody brands.

In 2006, Wilson provided the voice of Lightning McQueen in the Disney / Pixar film Cars, starred in You, Me and Dupree with Kate Hudson, and appeared with Stiller in Night at the Museum as Jedediah, the cowboy, an uncredited role.

* Volvo Cars ( 1960 to 1974, 2006 -)

Most recently Chad stepped out from behind the drum set to front his new project Before Cars, who released the single " Old Chair " in 2006.

The Big Texan Steak Ranch is known for its Cadillac white stretch limos with longhorn hood ornaments, one of which appears in the 2006 animated film Cars as Texas oil baron Tex Dinoco.

Out of the three nominees for the 2006 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, two of the nominees ( Monster House and the winner Happy Feet ) used motion capture, and only Disney · Pixar's Cars was animated without motion capture.

* The 2006 Acura TL won ConsumerSearchs " Best sports sedan with luxury touches " in Best Luxury Cars in September 2006.

Accurate computer-generated animation of this type of signal can be seen in the 2006 theatrical release, Cars.

* Cars ( franchise ), a Disney / Pixar film series

** Cars ( video game ), a video game based on the film

** The Cars ( album ), their debut album

* " Cars " ( song ), a 1979 single by Gary Numan

* " Cars " ( Fear Factory cover ), a single by Fear Factory

* Cars ( painting ), a series of paintings by Andy Warhol

Computer animation helped make blockbuster films such as Toy Story 3 ( 2010 ) ( Disney / Pixar ), Avatar ( 2009 ), Shrek 2 ( 2004 ) ( DreamWorks Animation ), and Cars 2 ( 2011 ) ( Disney / Pixar ).

Besides a number of appearances in films produced by her company, Flower Films, including Charlie's Angels, Barrymore had a dramatic role in the comedy / drama Riding in Cars with Boys ( 2001 ), playing a teenage mother in a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father ( based on the real-life story of Beverly D ' Onofrio ).

* King, The King ( Cars ), fictional character from the film

Victoria is also in the process of making the use of such methods of transportation more desirable ( in a push towards a more " green ", eco-friendly environment ), by offering incentives to use such modes of transport, such as parking spaces in the downtown core specifically designed for vehicles " or less " in wheelbase size, thus fostering the desirability for ownership of vehicles such as Smart Cars, motorcycles and small displacement scooters.

Weir's first full-length feature film was the underground cult classic, The Cars That Ate Paris ( 1975 ), a low-budget black comedy about the inhabitants of a small country town who deliberately cause fatal car crashes and live off the proceeds.

Cars are not allowed ( with exception to delivery trucks ), making this avenue a popular walkway.

At the beginning of July the Chairman of Jowett Cars Limited, AF Jopling ( who at the time was also a senior employee with Blackburn Aircraft ), informed Jowett shareholders at their Annual General Meeting that difficulties had arisen over the future supply of car bodies.

McKean quickly became a recognizable name in film and television, with appearances in films such as Used Cars ( 1980 ), Clue ( 1985 ), Planes, Trains and Automobiles ( 1987 ), Earth Girls Are Easy ( 1988 ), the film adaptation of Memoirs of an Invisible Man ( 1992 ), Coneheads ( 1993 ), and Radioland Murders ( 1994 ).

The US headquarters of Sennheiser is located in Old Lyme, as is Callaway Cars, the Florence Griswold Museum ( including the Florence Griswold House ), the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, and the Lyme Art Association.

Currently Volvo Cars uses the straight five-cylinder engine as their mainstay engine in every vehicle in the lineup.

Paul Sheldon, the author of a best-selling series of Victorian-era romance novels surrounding the heroine character Misery Chastain, has just finished the manuscript of his new crime novel, Fast Cars, while staying at the Hotel Boulderado ; since 1974, he has completed the first draft of every one of his novels in the same hotel room.

Various early armoured cars such as the Lanchester and Rolls-Royce Armoured Cars of 1914 were fitted with turrets, but the first tracked combat vehicles did not have them, and it was not until late in World War I that the French Renault FT-17 light tank introduced the single fully rotating turret carrying the vehicle's main armament that continues to be the standard of almost every modern main battle tank and many self-propelled guns.

Cars four years of age and older are required to be checked every year, to make sure they are roadworthy.

The most well-attended oval race in the world is the annual Indianapolis 500 ( Indy 500 ) in Speedway, Indiana, sanctioned by Indycar ; in the United States, it is common to refer to open-wheel cars as Indy Cars because of their recognizable appearance at the Indy 500.

However, the name ' stock car ' is usually reserved for that racing class which traces its roots back to these early days in the 1950s, BriSCA F1 Stock Cars, which were previously known as " The Seniors " or " Senior Stock Cars ".

The smaller Formula Two Stock Car Racing, previously known as " The Juniors " or " Junior Stock Cars ", is also very popular.

Another form of UK stock car racing is Saloon Stock Cars, regulated by the Saloon Stock Car Association.

The song is still very famous in Italy, and it's part of Dalla's album Automobili ( Cars ).

Bill is credited as the man who introduced Paul Newman to professional auto racing management, and their company specialized in Can-Am, Indy Cars, and other high performance racing automobiles.

Caine also plays the spy character Finn McMissile in the 2011 film Cars 2, though this is more in a smooth James Bond style than Palmer's downbeat, ' ordinary ' personality.

The Lotus Seven is a small, simple, lightweight two-seater open-top sports car produced by Lotus Cars ( initially called Lotus Engineering )< ref >

Cars can be ferried out to Fowey from Bodinnick which is 4 miles away.

DAF sold its passenger car division, along with what is now the NedCar factory in Born, in 1975 to the Swedish company Volvo Cars, leaving DAF to concentrate on its successful line of trucks.

The initiative has resulted in a substantial market share of Europe's fast-growing M2M market and is being used by Nissan in Europe to connect its customers Electric Cars.

: Bristol Beaufighter is also the name of a car produced by Bristol Cars in the 1980s.

It also is suggested by some historians that this gave rise to the expression " Poena Infinita ", used during the second World War to explain some of the issues created by the Blitzkrieg forces, specifically caused by raids of Sd. Kfz 221 Scout Cars, which came to become known as " Poena Infinita " themselves.

Some of them include Cameron Crowe's 1996 blockbuster film Jerry Maguire, U2's 1988 rockumentary Rattle and Hum, The Rolling Stones ' 1983 concert film Let's Spend the Night Together, 1976's A Star is Born, with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, the Coen Brothers 1987 film Raising Arizona, and the 1980 film Used Cars.

The meaning of the Cars element is uncertain but early spellings ( Kersaulton and Cresaulton ) may indicate connection with a cross or perhaps cress, watercress having been grown locally.

The used car lot (" Campus Cars ") that Dave's father owns was on S. Walnut St., and was a real used car lot for many years, but now has two small commercial buildings on the property ; it is located at 1010 S. Walnut St. Next door is the local Honda motorcycle franchise seen in the background of the famous " Refund?

John Lasseter has said in interviews that the town of Radiator Springs in the Pixar film Cars is loosely based on Seligman.

The city is also home to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, InterContinental Hotels Group, IBM Internet Security Systems, Northside Hospital, Porsche Cars North America and Saint Joseph's Hospital.