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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ht3pgS2L7M "Chevette"]] by Audio Adrenaline.
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** As is "Shut Up and Drive" by Rihanna.
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Not to be confused with songs by Music/TheCars.

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Not to be confused with songs by Music/TheCars. If it's a romantic song about your car, then CargoShip may apply.
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFI36dir_Ro "Trampled Under Foot"]] by LedZeppelin ''sounds'' like this, but it's really an IntercourseWithYou song.

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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFI36dir_Ro "Trampled Under Foot"]] by LedZeppelin Music/LedZeppelin ''sounds'' like this, but it's really an IntercourseWithYou song.
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Not to be confused with songs by TheCars.

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Not to be confused with songs by TheCars.Music/TheCars.
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* "The Scavenger" by Dick Dale & the Del-Tones. Also subverted in "Grudge Match", where he sings about taking his cool car to a drag race -- and losing completely.

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* "The Scavenger" by Dick Dale DickDale & the Del-Tones. Also subverted in "Grudge Match", where he sings about taking his cool car to a drag race -- and losing completely.

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* Elastica have a song called "Car Song". However, it's actually about AutoErotica.

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* Elastica have a song called "Car Song". However, it's actually about AutoErotica.

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* Elastica have a song called "Car Song". However, it's actually about AutoErotica.
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** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MS9fk1u6kA "Hot Rod Lincoln"]] by Charlie Ryan & The Livingston Brothers, an Answer Song.

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** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MS9fk1u6kA "Hot Rod Lincoln"]] by Charlie Ryan & The Livingston Brothers, an Answer Song.AnswerSong.
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* 'Red Barchetta' by {{Rush}}; combined with some hints of being 20MinutesIntoTheFuture.
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Not to be confused with songs by TheCars.
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* "Slick Black Cadillac" by Quiet Riot.
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* VanHalen's "Panama".
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* This trope was parodied by Prefab Sprout with 'Cars & Girls'
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFI36dir_Ro "Trampled Under Foot"]] by LedZeppelin ''sounds'' like this, but it's really an IntercourseWithYou song.
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* Oddly inverted in TheBraveLittleToaster. In "Worthless" cars at a junkyard sing about their people.

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* Oddly inverted in TheBraveLittleToaster.''TheBraveLittleToaster''. In "Worthless" cars at a junkyard sing about their people.
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* "Pink Cadillac" by BruceSpringsteen. Cars also play important supporting roles in some other of his songs like "Fire", "Racing in the Streets", "Sherry Darling" or "The River".
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* "Cars" by Gary Numan.
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* "Look At That Cadillac" by the Stray Cats.
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* Subverted with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6aIo1q-RF0 "Teardrops on my Old Car"]], a parody of "Teardrops on my Guitar" by TaylorSwift.

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* Subverted Inverted with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6aIo1q-RF0 "Teardrops on my Old Car"]], a parody of "Teardrops on my Guitar" by TaylorSwift.
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Common cars are T-birds, Cadillacs, hearses, Cadillac hearses and generic hotrods.

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Common cars are T-birds, Cadillacs, hearses, Cadillac hearses hearses, and generic hotrods.



** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MS9fk1u6kA "Hot Rod Lincoln"]] by Charlie Ryan & The Livingston Brothers, an Answer Song

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** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MS9fk1u6kA "Hot Rod Lincoln"]] by Charlie Ryan & The Livingston Brothers, an Answer SongSong.



* "The Little Old Lady From Pasadena," "Drag City" and "Dead Man's Curve" by JanAndDean.

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* "The Little Old Lady From Pasadena," Pasadena", "Drag City" City", and "Dead Man's Curve" by JanAndDean.



* "The Scavenger" by Dick Dale & the Del-Tones. Also subverted in "Grudge Match", where he sings about taking his cool car to a drag race--and losing completely.

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* "The Scavenger" by Dick Dale & the Del-Tones. Also subverted in "Grudge Match", where he sings about taking his cool car to a drag race--and race -- and losing completely.




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* Subverted with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6aIo1q-RF0 "Teardrops on my Old Car"]], a parody of "Teardrops on my Guitar" by TaylorSwift.
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* "Highway Star" by DeepPurple.

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* "The Scavenger" by Dick Dale & the Del-Tones. Also subverted in "Grudge Match", where he sings about taking his cool car to a drag race--and losing completely.
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* Subversion: "Little Red Corvette" by {{Prince}} isn't really about a car, it's about a DoubleEntendre for a part of the female anatomy.

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* Subversion: "Little Red Corvette" by {{Prince}} isn't really about a car, it's about a DoubleEntendre for a certain part of the female anatomy.
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* Subversion: "Little Red Corvette" by {{Prince}} isn't really about a car, it's about a DoubleEntendre for a part of the female anatomy.
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\"Little Red Corvette\" isn\'t about a car, it\'s about a Double Entendre for a part of the female anatomy.


* "Little Red Corvette" by {{Prince}}.
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* Oddly inverted in TheBraveLittleToaster. In "Worthless" cars at a junkyard sing about their people.
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* The ''CarTalk'' brothers are collectors and probably the ''leading'' disseminators of songs about [[TheAllegedCar Alleged Cars]].
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->''I cannot hear a Beach Boys car song without being immediately transported back to the summers of 1962 through 1965... I'm no longer a middle-aged guy driving to the laundry to pick up my shirts; I'm seventeen, and it's a summer night with tantalizing possibilities of adventure and romance hanging semipalpably in the humid air, and I'm cruising the roads around Armonk, New York, and even though the vehicle I'm cruising in is my mom's Plymouth Valiant station wagon, which boasts the performance characteristics and sex appeal of a forklift, I am feeling '''good''', and I am stomping on the gas pedal (not that this has any measurable effect on my mom's Valiant) and imagining that I'm at the wheel of a Stingray, singing triumphantly along with the Beach Boys as we roar past the Dodge 413...

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->''I cannot hear a Beach Boys car song without being immediately transported back to the summers of 1962 through 1965... I'm no longer a middle-aged guy driving to the laundry to pick up my shirts; I'm seventeen, and it's a summer night with tantalizing possibilities of adventure and romance hanging semipalpably in the humid air, and I'm cruising the roads around Armonk, New York, and even though the vehicle I'm cruising in is my mom's Plymouth Valiant station wagon, which boasts the performance characteristics and sex appeal of a forklift, I am feeling '''good''', and I am stomping on the gas pedal (not that this has any measurable effect on my mom's Valiant) and imagining that I'm at the wheel of a Stingray, singing triumphantly along with the Beach Boys as we roar past the Dodge 413...''
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->''I cannot hear a Beach Boys car song without being immediately transported back to the summers of 1962 through 1965... I'm no longer a middle-aged guy driving to the laundry to pick up my shirts; I'm seventeen, and it's a summer night with tantalizing possibilities of adventure and romance hanging semipalpably in the humid air, and I'm cruising the roads around Armonk, New York, and even though the vehicle I'm cruising in is my mom's Plymouth Valiant station wagon, which boasts the performance characteristics and sex appeal of a forklift, I am feeling '''good''', and I am stomping on the gas pedal (not that this has any measurable effect on my mom's Valiant) and imagining that I'm at the wheel of a Stingray, singing triumphantly along with the Beach Boys as we roar past the Dodge 413...
-->-- ''DaveBarry's Book of Bad Songs''

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