  The Cars were nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a
Duo or Group (Candy-O).
The Cars hit the Top 40 with
"Touch And Go."
from the LP Panorama
ARC chart run: 39 - 34 - 32 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 204
 available
for download at Amazon.mp3
The Cars hit the Top 40 with
"Shake It Up."
from the LP Shake
It Up
ARC chart run: 32 - 27 - 23 - 17 - 15 - 14 - 13 - 12 - 6 - 3 - 2 - 2 - 6 - 13 - 16 - 30 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 23
 available for download
at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
 # 38
Singles Artist of the Year
The Cars hit the Top 10 with "Shake It Up."
 The Cars hit the Top 40 with
"Since Your Gone."
from the LP Shake
It Up
ARC chart run: 39 - 32 - 30 - 27 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 192
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
 # 6
Singles Artist of the Year
 The Cars hit the Top 40 with
"You Might Think."
from the LP Heartbeat
City
ARC chart run: 31 - 25 - 19 - 14 - 9 - 7 - 7 - 5 - 8 - 17 - 31 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 73
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
The Cars hit the Top 10 with "You Might Think."
 The Cars hit the Top 40 with
"Magic."
from the LP Heartbeat
City
ARC chart run: 35 - 27 - 23 - 21 - 16 - 14 - 11 - 8 - 7 - 12 - 20 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 86
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
The Cars hit the Top 10 with "Magic."
 The Cars hit the Top 40 with
"Drive."
from the LP Heartbeat
City
ARC chart run: 37 - 30 - 25 - 19 - 13 - 9 - 6 - 5 - 2 - 1 - 3 - 16 - 24 - 32 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 25
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
 The video for "You Might Think" won a MTV Video Music
Award for Video of the Year and was nominated for Best Concept Video, Viewer's Choice, Best Art Direction, Most Experimental Video, and Best Special Effects.
The Cars hit the Top 10 with "Drive."
The Cars hit #1 for a week with "Drive."
 The Cars hit the Top 40 with
"Hello Again."
from the LP Heartbeat
City
ARC chart run: 38 - 31 - 28 - 22 - 20 - 18 - 15 - 13 - 36 - off
The Cars were nominated for 2 Grammy Awards for Best Pop Vocal Performance by a
Duo or Group ("Drive") and Best Rock Vocal Performance by a
Duo or Group (Heartbeat
City).
The video for "Drive"
was nominated for a MTV Video Music
Award for Best Group Video.
The Cars hit the Top 40 with
"Tonight She Comes."
The Cars hit the Top 10 with "Tonight She Comes."
 The
Cars: # 97
Singles Artist of the Year
 The
Cars: # 88
Singles Artist of the Year
Rolling
Stone: "The 100 Top Music Videos" included "You Might Think" at # 30.
 Rolling Stone
& MTV: 100 Greatest Pop Songs included "Just
What I Needed" at # 65.
(available
for download at  )
VH1: 100
Greatest Videos included "You Might Think" at # 76.
# 123 on the Top Pop Artists
of the Past 25 Years chart.
Greg Hawkes and Eliott Easton
along with Todd Rundgren,
Kasim Sulton of Utopia and
Prairie Prince of The Tubes
formed 'The New Cars' for a tour with Blondie and a live LP It's
Alive (Rolling Stone:  ). The tour was later cancelled
after Easton suffered a broken clavicle after
their tour bus swerved to avoid another
vehicle.
 The Cars released Move
Like This.
- April 14: The Cars were
inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of
Fame.
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