14 Facts About The Cars

The Cars were an American rock band formed in Boston in 1976.

The Cars were at the forefront of the merger of 1970s guitar-oriented rock with the new synthesizer-oriented pop that became popular in the early 1980s.

The Cars were named Best New Artist in the 1978 Rolling Stone Readers' Poll.

The band's debut album, The Cars, sold six million copies and appeared on the Billboard 200 album chart for 139 weeks.

The surviving original members of the Cars reunited in 2010 to record the band's seventh and final album, Move Like This, which was released in May 2011.

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In 1981, the Cars purchased Intermedia Studios in Boston, renaming it Syncro Sound.

The only The Cars album recorded there was the band's fourth album Shake It Up, a more commercial album than Panorama.

The Cars reunited and released their most successful album, Heartbeat City, in 1984.

However, in 1995 Rhino Records released a two-CD set Just What I Needed: The Cars Anthology, containing all the group's hits mixed with rarities .

In 2005, Easton and Hawkes combined their talents with Todd Rundgren, Prairie Prince, and Kasim Sulton in a revamped lineup, the New The Cars, to perform classic The Cars songs along with some new original material and selections from Rundgren's career.

In 2010, the founding members of the Cars suggested a reunion when Ric Ocasek, Elliot Easton, Greg Hawkes and David Robinson placed a photo of the four members together in Millbrook Sound Studios, in Millbrook, New York, on their Facebook page.

In May 2011, the Cars went on a ten-city tour of the United States and Canada and performed at Lollapalooza in Chicago in August.

The Cars became inactive after the tour's conclusion in 2011.

The Cars' music has been described as new wave and power pop, and is influenced by proto-punk, garage rock, and bubblegum pop.