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* Sonny Day and the Versatiles' "Speedillac".
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* The first verse of "Motor City Steel" by Music/TheDandyWarhols namedrops Ford, Chevy, GMC's Jimmy, and the USA-1 (a monster truck).
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* "455 Rocket," originally recorded by Music/KathyMattea. A woman buys a used Oldsmobile with a powerful V8 engine and has fun beating the locals in drag races until she wrecks it by crashing through a guardrail.
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* The Medallions' "59 Volvo", "Buick 59", "Coupe De Ville Baby" and "Push Button Automobile".
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* "Driving in my Car" by Music/{{Madness}}, which also crosses over into TheAllegedCar.
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* "Driving in my Car" by Music/{{Madness}}, Music/{{Madness|Band}}, which also crosses over into TheAllegedCar.
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->''"I cannot hear a Music/TheBeachBoys 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 Music/TheBeachBoys 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...air."''
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* "Ode to My Car" by Creator/AdamSandler is a comedy song about [[TheAllegedCar how terrible his car is.]]
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* Subversion: "Little Red Corvette" by Music/{{Prince}} isn't really about a car, it's a DoubleEntendre for a certain part of the female anatomy.
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* Subversion: "Little Red Corvette" by Music/{{Prince}} isn't really about a car, car - it's a DoubleEntendre metaphor for a certain part of the female anatomy.[[ReallyGetsAround "fast"]] ''woman''.
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* "Travelling Without Moving" from Jamiroquai.
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* "Travelling Without Moving" from Jamiroquai.Music/{{Jamiroquai}}.
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* Music/PublicEnemy's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYblg4i2HD8 You're Gonna Get Yours]]".
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* "The Ballad of Thunder Road", from the 1958 film of the same name, is about a HillbillyMoonshiner and his son: Daddy made the whiskey and the son delivered it to his customers, using a ferociously souped-up car.
** "Dead Man's Curve" is actually a subversion: if you listen to the lyrics, it describes a street race that ended in a devastating (and, it's implied, deadly for the other driver) crash.
--->Well, the last thing I remember, Doc, I started to swerve\\
And then I saw the Jag slide into the curve\\
I know I'll never forget that horrible sight\\
I guess I found out for myself that everyone was right\\
''You won't come back from Dead Man's Curve''
--->Well, the last thing I remember, Doc, I started to swerve\\
And then I saw the Jag slide into the curve\\
I know I'll never forget that horrible sight\\
I guess I found out for myself that everyone was right\\
''You won't come back from Dead Man's Curve''
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* "One Piece At A Time" by Music/JohnnyCash, about a Cadillac worker who smuggles components home to build his own Caddy.
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* "One Piece At A Time" by Music/JohnnyCash, about a Cadillac assembly-line worker who smuggles components home over twenty years to build [[TheAllegedCar his own Caddy.Caddy]].
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* "Bugatti" by {{Music/Tiga}}
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* 'Red Barchetta' by Music/{{Rush}}.
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* 'Red Barchetta' by Music/{{Rush}}.Music/RushBand.
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* "Travelling Without Moving" from Jamiroquai.
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* ''Music/{{Foreigner}}'': "Rev on the Red Line", about street racing and the four hundred horses under the hood.
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* ''Music/{{Foreigner}}'': ''Music/{{Foreigner|Band}}'': "Rev on the Red Line", about street racing and the four hundred horses under the hood.
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Oh, [[UpToEleven still not enough?]] Try DrivesLikeCrazy!
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Oh, [[UpToEleven still not enough?]] enough? Try DrivesLikeCrazy!
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* "The Keys To Her Ferrari" by Music/ThomasDolby parodies this trope by taking it UpToEleven.
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* "The Keys To Her Ferrari" by Music/ThomasDolby parodies this trope by taking it UpToEleven.trope.
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* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pSGLMfN2j4 JEEP]]" by Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi. The refrain is "[[GratuitousEnglish driving with my Jeep]]".
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* The ''Radio/CarTalk'' brothers are collectors and probably the ''leading'' disseminators of songs about [[TheAllegedCar Alleged Cars]].
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* The ''Radio/CarTalk'' brothers are collectors and probably the ''leading'' disseminators of songs about [[TheAllegedCar Alleged Cars]]. They've released two compilation albums, "Car Talk Car Tunes" and "Born Not to Run".
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* Australian comedian Steve Abbott, in character as The Sandman, once sang of a classmate of his who loved the [[https://www.google.com/search?q=datsun+homer+van&client=firefox-b-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiN5Mjay67zAhWEXCsKHYd5ANAQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1920&bih=955&dpr=1 Datsun Homer Van]] so much, he'd constantly scrawl doodles of it in his schoolbooks and imitate the engine sounds, until another kid stabbed him in the leg with a compass, and he stopped doing it. Sandman, incidentally, in-universe, ended up driving a [[https://www.google.com/search?q=holden+gemini&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjY-6Ddy67zAhWTXH0KHVtkAa8Q2-cCegQIABAA&oq=holden+gemini&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzIICAAQgAQQsQMyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgQIABBDMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDoICAAQsQMQgwE6BwgAELEDEENQ64YDWI-bA2CZngNoAHAAeACAAY0CiAHxEZIBBjAuMTIuMZgBAKABAaoBC2d3cy13aXotaW1nwAEB&sclient=img&ei=49BZYZj-MZO59QPbyIX4Cg&bih=955&biw=1920&client=firefox-b-d Holden Gemini]].
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* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIk1O8l2czk Long May You Run]] by Neil Young, which he wrote about his first car, a 1948 Buick Roadmaster hearse.
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* "The Stanley Steamer" from ''Summer Holiday''.''Film/SummerHoliday''.
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Wait, you need more? Okay, why not stick in a story about how the car is cursed, how you like to take your baby around in it or that time you were arrested for speeding?
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Wait, you need more? Okay, why not stick in a story about how the car is cursed, how you like to take your baby around in it ([[AutoErotica or do other things with them in it]]) or that time you were arrested for speeding?
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* "Wheels Of Steel" by Music/{{Saxon}} is about an otherwise non-descript '68 Chevrolet modified to hell and back from sidepipes to so much compression that it has to run on avgas.
* "Souped-Up Ford" by Rory Gallagher is another [[ParodiedTrope parody]] as it's about a chav in a tricked-out compact four-banger. "It's a front-wheel drive, and it sounds like a beehive."
* "Opel-Gang" by Music/DieTotenHosen.
* "Cadillac" by the Spider Murphy Gang.
* "Backseat Of Your Cadillac" by C.C. Catch.
* "Manta" by Norbert & die Feiglinge kicked off [[GermanHumor the Manta joke wave]] which in turn led to [[Film/MantaManta two]] [[Film/MantaDerFilm films]] and even more Manta songs.
* The "Anlaßjodler" by Fredl Fesl is about a car that doesn't start up and trying to fix it with all the wrong tools.
* "Taxi" by Jawoll is about a taxi driver who drives a girl home one night and then ends up going home with her.
* "Taxi" by DÖF is about someone who is standing outside in the cold and waiting for a taxi that takes longer and longer to arrive.
* "Ich will Spaß" by Markus is about someone who DrivesLikeCrazy in a [[CoolCar Maserati]] and cares for neither traffic laws nor fuel prices.
* "Souped-Up Ford" by Rory Gallagher is another [[ParodiedTrope parody]] as it's about a chav in a tricked-out compact four-banger. "It's a front-wheel drive, and it sounds like a beehive."
* "Opel-Gang" by Music/DieTotenHosen.
* "Cadillac" by the Spider Murphy Gang.
* "Backseat Of Your Cadillac" by C.C. Catch.
* "Manta" by Norbert & die Feiglinge kicked off [[GermanHumor the Manta joke wave]] which in turn led to [[Film/MantaManta two]] [[Film/MantaDerFilm films]] and even more Manta songs.
* The "Anlaßjodler" by Fredl Fesl is about a car that doesn't start up and trying to fix it with all the wrong tools.
* "Taxi" by Jawoll is about a taxi driver who drives a girl home one night and then ends up going home with her.
* "Taxi" by DÖF is about someone who is standing outside in the cold and waiting for a taxi that takes longer and longer to arrive.
* "Ich will Spaß" by Markus is about someone who DrivesLikeCrazy in a [[CoolCar Maserati]] and cares for neither traffic laws nor fuel prices.
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* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TArRe1I18xY Culiacán vs. Mazatlán]]" by Gerardo Ortiz and Calibre .50 is a Mexican banda song about a rich man from Culiacán, Sinaloa with a 500 HP Chevy Camaro racing against another rich man from Mazatlán with a Dodge Viper.
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* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TArRe1I18xY Culiacán vs. Mazatlán]]" by Gerardo Ortiz and Calibre .50 is a Mexican banda song about a rich man from Culiacán, Sinaloa with a 500 HP Chevy Camaro racing against another rich man from Mazatlán with a Dodge Viper.
Viper. The latter wins, but the former turns out to also own a Corvette, asks for a rematch, and wins the second race.
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* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TArRe1I18xY Culiacán vs. Mazatlán]]" by Gerardo Ortiz and Calibre .50 is a Mexican narco-folk song about a rich man from Culiacán, Sinaloa with a 500 HP Chevy Camaro racing against another rich man from Mazatlán with a Dodge Viper.
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* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TArRe1I18xY Culiacán vs. Mazatlán]]" by Gerardo Ortiz and Calibre .50 is a Mexican narco-folk banda song about a rich man from Culiacán, Sinaloa with a 500 HP Chevy Camaro racing against another rich man from Mazatlán with a Dodge Viper.
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* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TArRe1I18xY Culiacán vs. Mazatlán]]" by Gerardo Ortiz and Calibre .50 is a Mexican narco-folk song about a rich man from Culiacán, Sinaloa with a 500 HP Chevy Camaro racing against another rich man from Mazatlán with a Dodge Viper.
