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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."''
-->-- '''''Creator/DaveBarry's Book of Bad Songs'''''

Are you a musician? Do you own a CoolCar? Do you wish you had a CoolCar? Why not write [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a song about this car]], its parts and how cool it is? [[TheAllegedCar Do you have a less than Cool Car]]? Tell the world about your vehicle's paint job, engine, whatever you want.

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?

Oh, still not enough? Try DrivesLikeCrazy!

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

Counterpart trope to DrivingSong, which is about the love of driving rather than the car itself. Not to be confused with songs by Music/TheCars. If it's a romantic song about your car, then CargoShip may apply. See also TrainSong.

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!!Examples:

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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" from ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang''.
* "The Stanley Steamer" from ''Film/SummerHoliday''.
* "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.
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[[folder:Music]]
* "Grey Cortina" by Tom Robinson Band.
* "Low Rider" by War.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvuoJlCDLxg "Hot Rod Race"]] by Arkie Shibley and his Mountain Dew Boys.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MS9fk1u6kA "Hot Rod Lincoln"]] by Charlie Ryan & The Livingston Brothers, an AnswerSong.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5Aae9ReI5Q "Beep Beep"]] by The Playmates.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RAfxiyMKAk "Maybelline"]], Music/ChuckBerry's first single.
* Taken to its ultimate logical conclusion by Music/{{Queen}} with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaEM4JYFPfw "I'm In Love With My Car"]]. The lyrics were inspired by one of their roadies who was [[ThePreciousPreciousCar a bit obsessive about his Triumph TR4]], which is admittedly an extremely CoolCar.
* "Shut Down," "Fun, Fun, Fun," "Little Deuce Coupe" and "409" by Music/TheBeachBoys.
** ...with "Little Honda" as their cool ''bike'' song.
* "The Little Old Lady From Pasadena", "Drag City", and "Dead Man's Curve" by Music/JanAndDean.
** "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''
* "Custom Machine" by Bruce and Terry.
* "Cadillac Jack" about a pool player's love affair with his white Cadillac. Things go wrong when he attempts to flirt with a human woman, and Jack ends up riding in the back of a. long. ''black''. Cadillac.
* Subversion: "Little Red Corvette" by Music/{{Prince}} isn't about a car - it's a metaphor for a [[ReallyGetsAround "fast"]] ''woman''.
** Another Subversion: "Faster" by Music/GeorgeHarrison, which wasn't really associated with cars until sound clips from various UsefulNotes/FormulaOne races were added throughout the song.
* "The Scavenger" by Music/DickDale & the Del-Tones. Also subverted in "Grudge Match", where he sings about taking his cool car to a drag race -- and losing completely.
* "Highway Star" by Music/DeepPurple (from ''[[Music/MachineHeadAlbum Machine Head]]'')
* "Death Alley Driver" by Music/{{Rainbow}}
* Inverted with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6aIo1q-RF0 "Teardrops on my Old Car"]], a parody of "Teardrops on my Guitar" by Music/TaylorSwift.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDuNM2rbYfU "Look At That Cadillac"]] by the Music/StrayCats is the "want a cool car" variety. "Built for Speed" and "Hotrod Gang" are "look at my cool car".
* "Cars" by Music/GaryNuman.
* "Pink Cadillac" by Music/BruceSpringsteen. Cars also play important supporting roles in some other of his songs like "Fire", "Racing in the Streets", "Sherry Darling" or "The River".
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFI36dir_Ro "Trampled Under Foot"]] by Music/LedZeppelin ''sounds'' like this, but it's really an IntercourseWithYou song.
** As is "Shut Up and Drive" by Music/{{Rihanna}}.
* This trope was parodied by Music/PrefabSprout with 'Cars & Girls'
* Music/VanHalen's "Panama" is named after a race car called "Panama Express" that David Lee Roth saw at a race in Las Vegas.
* "Slick Black Cadillac" by Music/QuietRiot.
* 'Red Barchetta' by Music/RushBand.
* ''Music/{{Foreigner|Band}}'': "Rev on the Red Line", about street racing and the four hundred horses under the hood.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ht3pgS2L7M "Chevette"]] by Audio Adrenaline.
* ''Black Sunshine'' and ''Dragula'' by [[Music/RobZombie White Zombie]]
* "My Old Yellow Car" by Dan Seals.
* "The Keys To Her Ferrari" by Music/ThomasDolby parodies this trope.
* "Open Road" by Music/BryanAdams.
* "Wheels" by Music/{{ACDC}}.
* Brazil saw a trend in the so-called "universitary country" regarding these: "Camaro Amarelo" (Yellow Camaro) - and its parody "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Gol Gol 1.0]]" -, "Vem Ni Mim Dodge Ram" (Come at me, Dodge Ram), "De Land Rover É Fácil" (It's Easier with a Land Rover), and "Fiorino", which even starts referencing the previous one ("It's easier and prettier with a Land Rover, but I wanna see you throw the chick at the back of a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_Fiorino Fiorino!]]").
* "Driving in my Car" by Music/{{Madness|Band}}, which also crosses over into TheAllegedCar.
* "Drive My Car" by Music/TheBeatles.
** Subverted in that she's got no car (and it's breaking her heart).
* "Autobahn" by Music/{{Kraftwerk}}.
* "Galaxie" by Music/BlindMelon.
* "Jesus Built My Hotrod" by Music/{{Ministry}}, a more lyrically nonsensical example.
* A variation is Music/WalkOffTheEarth's car loop version of their song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIfsVtmFoqU Gang of Rhythm]]". The song isn't about a car, the song is [[EverythingIsAnInstrument played on the car]].
* "Pedal To The Metal" by Kazzer.
* "Mach 5" by Music/ThePresidentsOfTheUnitedStatesOfAmerica. BTW, it's not about ''Anime/SpeedRacer's'' car.
* "Fast Car" by Music/TracyChapman is a {{deconstruction}}. Two lovers escape in the title car, but they have nothing waiting for them. No jobs and miserable lives ensue.
* ''Totally'' subverted by [[Music/TheCatEmpire The Cat Empire's]] ironically titled "The Car Song" which is basically about lack of ambition and procrastination and really only mentions cars to illustrate these points in its chorus.
* "No Particular Place To Go" by Chuck Berry. His date with his girl is foiled because he can't unfasten her seat belt.
* "Making Love In A Subaru" by Damaskas Hollodan from ''The Dr. Demento Show'' on radio.
* "My Hooptie" and "Testarossa" by Music/SirMixALot.
* "Dream Machine" by Lazerhawk.
* "Let's Take a Car" by Marsheaux.
* "Black Pantera" by Betamaxx.
* "I'll Rust With You" from Music/SteamPoweredGiraffe mentions classic cars as part of a disappearing culture.
* "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]].
* "Hearse Driver", Music/EJWells. (There are also several other songs of this, or very close, name).
-->I got my hearse
-->Things could be worse
-->I could be riding in the back
* "Dream Cars" by Neon Neon.
* "Rust In My Car" by UsefulNotes/NewZealand supergroup Citizen Band.
* Music/Apollo440, regularly featured in the ''VideoGame/GranTurismo'' series, have "Cold Rock the Mic", "Hold The Brakes", "Start the Car", etc.
* Music/HoboJohnson: "Subaru Crosstrek XV" sings the praises of the titular car, which is apparently pretty reliable and has suspension as soft as cute little baby's neck (but don't tow with it even though it comes with a hitch, you'll ruin the suspension).
* "'92 Subaru" by Music/FountainsOfWayne gets increasingly implausibly hyperbolic about the amazing features of the titular, pimped-out used Subaru. It's nominally a love song based on the chorus, but it's really about the car.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RSvnS8unoE La Suburban Dorada]]" by Los Huracanes del Norte is a Mexican narco-folk song about two cartel goons running a drug delivery from Zacatecas to Colorado on an armored, tuned, golden Chevrolet Suburban. The first part is about the goons boasting about the car. The second part is about how they unleash hell on a roadblock when a DirtyCop tells them that [[MetallicarSyndrome the police has an APB on the Suburban]] (with the song ending on a news bulletin about how the crooks are now the subject of a CopKillerManhunt).
-->They felt well protected in the golden Suburban\\
Its engine was tricked out and it was completely armored\\
Arturo proudly said: "not even the Devil can catch us"
* "[[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. The latter wins, but the former turns out to also own a Corvette, asks for a rematch, and wins the second race.
* "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.
* "Travelling Without Moving" from Music/{{Jamiroquai}}.
* "Bugatti" by {{Music/Tiga}}
* "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.
* "[[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.
* "I Can't Drive 55" by Sammy Hagar.
* Australian comedian Steve Abbott, in character as The Sandman, once sang of a classmate of his who loved the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Homer 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden_Gemini Holden Gemini]].
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pSGLMfN2j4 JEEP]]" by Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi. The refrain is "[[GratuitousEnglish driving with my Jeep]]".
* Music/PublicEnemy's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYblg4i2HD8 You're Gonna Get Yours]]", sometimes subtitled "My 98 Oldsmobile"
* "Ode to My Car" by Creator/AdamSandler is a comedy song about [[TheAllegedCar how terrible his car is.]]
* The Medallions' "59 Volvo", "Buick 59", "Coupe De Ville Baby" and "Push Button Automobile".
* "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.
* The first verse of "Motor City Steel" by Music/TheDandyWarhols namedrops Ford, Chevy, GMC's Jimmy, and the USA-1 (a monster truck).
* Sonny Day and the Versatiles' "Speedillac".
* "Ferrari Boyz" by Music/GucciMane and Music/WakaFlockaFlame is the title track of their collaborative mixtape, and features the pair rapping about their respective new Ferrari's.
* "Mercedes Benz" by Music/JanisJoplin is actually a satirical MoneySong.
* "Beamer, Benz or Bentley" by Music/LloydBanks.
* Music/CharliXCX has many, "Vroom Vroom" being most pertinent example, but she also has "Porsche," "White Mercedes," "Crash," and "Speed Drive."
* {{Averted|Trope}} with "Red Cortina" by Music/TheSawDoctors. Despite the title being the name of a model of car, the song is about first love.
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[[folder:Radio]]
* 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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[[folder:Theatre]]
* "Greased Lightning" from ''Theatre/{{Grease}}''.
* "Cadillac Car" from ''Theatre/{{Dreamgirls}}''.
* "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top" from ''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}'' is basically a car song about a horse-drawn carriage.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* "Heaven is a '57 metallic gray" from ''VideoGame/{{Gitadora}}'' and ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution''.
* "Firebird" from ''VideoGame/DoubleDragonNeon''.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Oddly inverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster''. In "Worthless" cars at a junkyard sing about their people.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbugHkuFsTg My Ride From Outer Space]]", as Ferb takes a tricked-out alien spaceship for a test run.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grUqKK8gu10 Cruisin' My Sweet Ride]]", sung by the boys as they show off the CoolCar they made from the [[TheAllegedCar rust heap]] their father wanted to fix up for Candace.
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