 # 166
Singles Artist of the Year
  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.
 # 173
Singles Artist of the Year
 The Cars hit the Top 40 with
"Shake It Up" from the LP Shake
It Up.
 # 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.
 # 6
Singles Artist of the Year
The Cars hit the Top 40 with
"You Might Think" from the LP Heartbeat
City.
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 The Cars hit the Top 10 with "You Might Think."
The Cars hit the Top 40 with
"Magic" from the LP Heartbeat
City.
 The Cars hit the Top 10 with "Magic."
The Cars hit the Top 40 with
"Drive."
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."
 # 58
Singles Artist of the Year
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 ~ Ric
Ocasek: # 127
Singles Artist of the Year ~ Benjamin
Orr: # 181
Singles Artist of the Year
 The
Cars: # 88
Singles Artist of the Year ~ Benjamin
Orr: # 130
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.
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.
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