Car Song of the Week Catalogue

Our list of some of the best and worst motoring themed songs.

There’s an undoubted link between cars and music. Nothing beats the combination of a great song and an open or winding road to enjoy!

Each week on the Behind the Wheel podcast and radio program we play a Car Song of the Week, here’s the list of what we’ve played over the past couple of years, including cover versions.

Adam Brand – 455 Rocket

America – Ventura Highway

Aretha Franklin – Freeway of Love

Beach Boys – Little Deuce Coupe

Beatles – Baby you can drive my car

Belle and Sebastian – I’m in love my car

Billy Ocean – Get out of my dreams and into my car

Black Sorrows – Chained to the Wheel

Bob Dylan – Highway 61

Bowie – Jagger – Dancing in the Streets

Bruce Hornsby and Range – Valley Road

Bruce Springsteen – Pink Cadillac

Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road

Canned heat – On the road again

Chris Rea – Driving home for Xmas

Chuck Berry – Riding along in my automobile

Company of Strangers – Motor City

Counting Crows and Vanessa Carlton – Big Yellow Taxi

Cyndi Lauper – I drove all night

David Hasselhoff – Jump in my car

Doobie Brothers – Rockin’ down the highway

Doobie Brothers – Takin’ it to the streets

Gary Numan – Cars

George Harrison – Any Road

George Harrison – Faster

George Thorogood – Blue Highway

Gerry Rafferty – Baker Street

Go West – One Way Street

Harry Nilsson – Driving Along

James Reyne – Motors too fast

Janis Joplin – Mercedes Benz

Jimmy Barnes – Driving Wheels

John Denver – Take me home country roads

John Lennon – Watching the Wheels

John Mayer – Route 66

Joni Mitchell – Big Yellow Taxi

Lindsay Buckingham – Holiday Road

Michael Jackson – Speed demon

Modest Mouse – Dashboard

Natalie Cole – Pink Cadillac

Neil Young – Behind the Wheel

Paul McCartney – Back seat of my car

Prince – Little Red Corvette

Queen – I’m in love with my car

Rascal Flatts – Life is a Highway

REM – Drive

Rolling Stones – Route 66

Roxette – Sleeping in my car

Roy Orbison – I drove all night

Simon and Garfunkel – Baby Driver

Shannon Noll – Drive

Sniff N’ the tears – Drivers seat

Snow Patrol – Chasing Cars

Steve Earle – Copperhead Road

Talking Heads – Road to nowhere

Ted Mulry Gang – Jump in my car

The Cars – Drive

The Commitments – Mustang Sally

The Go-Betweens – Streets of your town

Time Bandits – Endless Road

Tom Cochrane – Life is a highway

Tom Robinson Band – 2 4 6 8 Motorway

U2 – Where the streets have no name

Van Morrison – Bright side of the road

Willie Nelson – On the Road Again

Are there are any car or motoring themed songs we’ve missed? Let us know and if we play it a prize will be coming your way.