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“I paid $2,800 for it at a vintage dealer. Now, I think the guitar would be worth six figures”: What was Elliot Easton’s greatest gear find? The Cars legend reveals all – and argues that today’s players have never had it better

The former Cars six-stringer talks early guitar exploits, the golden age of vintage-guitar buying, and why he’s not as jazzed about amps as he is about guitars themselves

Guitar World

Analyst Revs Up Cars.com, Hits The Brakes On 3 Others

Shares of auto retail ecosystem companies have outperformed year-to-date, despite the announcement of auto tariffs and industry fundamentals weakening "even before the impact of tariffs have flowed through to vehicle pricing," according to JPMorgan.

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“The Epiphone and Squier guitars that you can get now, with a good setup, will play great and sound very close to more expensive versions”: Why The Cars' Elliot Easton believes a guitar's setup is more important than its price tag

Is it worth breaking the bank for a guitar? The Cars' six-stringer doesn't think so...

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Disney Releases More Details On Its New Cars-Themed Land

Last year, Disney announced an entire land dedicated to Pixar's Cars at its Magic Kingdom Park in Orlando. Aside from a few illustrations that, actually, looked pretty awesome, the details were otherwise scarce. But today, the company has revealed new information on its next big expansion—including a name.

Motor1

Josh Berry: CARS Tour puts on a better show than "horrible" ARCA

Earlier this year at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Josh Berry earned his first career Cup Series win, taking the iconic No. 21 Wood Brothers machine to Victory Lane. He also has five wins in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, but it was the CARS Late Model Tour where he truly made…

Motorsport

“John Lennon hated doubling his vocals. The chief engineer at Abbey Road came up with a way to add a delay and put it onto another track. That’s what that pedal does”: The Cars’ Elliot Easton on the secrets of his pedalboard –and the wizard who made it

Easton has a Dumble-in-a-box, 12-string jangle on demand and a whole bunch of wildcards on a pedalboard that's got a little bit of everything

Guitar World

“After every take, Mutt would say, ‘Check the tuning, man!’ This went on and on for almost a year. One day, I just gave him the guitar and said, ‘You tune it. I can’t take this anymore!’”: How legendary producer Mutt Lange drove the Cars half-mad

And the result? 'A beautiful record,' says guitarist Elliot Easton

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Roy Thomas Baker obituary

Record producer, songwriter and arranger whose work on Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody took the single to the top of the charts around the world

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Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody producer Roy Thomas Baker dead at 78

Legendary producer Roy Thomas Baker, who produced albums for Queen and The Cars, has died.

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“It was the most disgusting thing I could ever imagine. It makes me sick just thinking of it!” The Cars’ guitarist Elliot Easton recalls the worst thing that ever happened to him on stage

The band had a rude awakening on their first trip to England

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“When I came up with the main hook I realised that it was reminiscent of a Beatles song”: How The Cars created an American rock classic

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“He fell in love with my SGs, so now I have to buy him one. I told him that one day it would show up at his door”: Looking to take his post-Cars career in a more guitar-heavy direction, Ric Ocasek formed an unlikely partnership with an alt-rock icon

For what would become his fifth solo album, Ocasek reached out to Smashing Pumpkins mastermind Billy Corgan, and came away impressed by his arranging talents and technical abilities

Guitar World

Disney World's New Cars Ride Looks Awesome

Disney is finally bringing its beloved Cars franchise to the Magic Kingdom park in Orlando, Florida. As part of a massive expansion to Frontierland, the company announced a Cars land with two new attractions on the former site of Rivers of America and Tom Sawyer Island. Disney recently released more…

Motor1

“Guitar World was putting together this CD... I thought, ‘Guitar players are gonna try to play the most mind-blowing shredding’… So I did an acoustic piece in DADGAD”: The Cars' Elliot Easton considers this lost gem to be one of his best performances

Walk On Walden stood out in comparison to Easton's previous work with the Cars, and especially in the context of the compilation in question. Not that this was an accident

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3 Used Car Stocks Benefiting from High Auto Prices

As rising costs push more buyers toward affordable alternatives, the used car market is seeing strong momentum. Given this backdrop, we think it could be wise to scoop up the shares of fundamentally sound used car stocks Carvana Co. (CVNA), CarGurus, Inc. (CARG), and Cars.com Inc. (CARS). Read more….

MarketBeat

CarMax Is Firing on All Pistons as Growth Returns

When it comes to used cars in the United States, CarMax Inc. (NYSE: KMX) stands out as the largest used car dealership. The auto/tires/trucks sector giant opera

MusicRadar

“That's when the phone lines all over the world collapsed… The moment came when people fully understood what this was for”: The creation of The Cars’ song Drive and how it soundtracked a humanitarian catastrophe

Best of 2024: “The lyrics don't have to mean anything in an intellectual sense. They're endlessly interpretive. They just have to make an emotional sense”

Evening Standard

Lee Carsley: The man behind the England manager, by those who know him best

Mikel Arteta and David Moyes among those to praise ex-Under-21s boss as he auditions for the full-time Three Lions job

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The Conversation

Peter Weir’s The Cars That Ate Paris – a driving force in Ozploitation filmmaking

It has been 50 years since the cinema release of Peter Weir’s iconic, offbeat, cult classic The Cars That Ate Paris. The film seared the image of a silver Volkswagen Beetle weaponised with deadly spikes into the national imagination. It also helped shape the tropes of Ozploitation filmmaking within the…

Evening Standard

Levi Colwill backs Lee Carsley 'arrogance' to help deliver success for England

Colwill was part of Carsley’s successful England U21 side at the Euros in 2023

Louder

“It has brightened my spirit to see how many have posted about Ric, praising his originality, flair, and brilliance”: Revisiting Billy Corgan’s tribute to late Cars leader Ric Ocasek

The Cars frontman and famed producer died five years ago this weekend and his passing prompted eulogies from an array of fellow musicians

MusicRadar

“The lyrics don't have to mean anything in an intellectual sense. They're endlessly interpretive. They just have to make an emotional sense”

Louder

“We opened for bands we really hated, like Styx. People were relating to us and not them. They got a little pissed”: the stellar rise and sudden fall of The Cars, the new wave band who soundtracked America

For nearly a decade in the late 70s and early 80s, The Cars were one of America’s most popular bands

MusicRadar

“We got into the early Cars thing and began to notice a musical similarity between us and them": The story of Weezer's Buddy Holly

The melody was in time to my steps: ‘ooo-we-ooo I look just like Buddy Holly’

Guitar World

“I played the solo perfectly – and there was silence in the room. It was crickets. Everyone was looking down, I couldn’t believe it”: Elliot Easton on The Cars’ early years – and the guitar solo that moved him to tears of rage

From playing a ukulele aged 3 to discovering the organic nature of signature guitars, he shares his secret to choosing the perfect gear first time round

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