The album was re-issued as a Deluxe Edition on April 20, 1999, containing demos of the entire album alongside five previously unreleased demos.
Rolling stone's magazine ranked the album 279 in 500 best albums of all time.
The cover model is Natalya Medvedeva, a Russian-born model, journalist, and musician who died in 2003.
"Moving in Stereo" was used as the theme for Phoebe Cates' famous pool scene in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. "You're All I've Got Tonight" was covered by The Smashing Pumpkins and released on their 1996 box set The Aeroplane Flies High.
The Cars, in its entirety, was released as downloadable content for the music video game Rock Band on May 27, 2008.
The Cars were an American rock band that emerged from the early New Wave music scene in the late 1970s. The band consisted of lead singer and rhythm guitarist Ric Ocasek, lead singer and bassist Benjamin Orr, guitarist Elliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes and drummer David Robinson. The band originated from Boston, Massachusetts, and were signed to Elektra Records in 1977.
The band broke up in 1988, and Ocasek has always discouraged talk of a reunion since then, flatly telling one interviewer in 1997 "I'm saying never and you can count on that." Easton and Hawkes, however, joined with Todd Rundgren in 2005 to form a spin-off band, The New Cars, which performs classic Cars and Rundgren songs alongside new material.
