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The New Cars featuring Todd Rundgren

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8. That New Car Smell

The checklist for the 2006 Cars reunion tour: two Cars sidemen desperate for a payday? Check. A gaggle of folks who have nothing to do with the hit-making '80s New Wave band, including, for some reason, Todd Rundgren? Check. The two guys who actually wrote and sang everything? Well, considering Ric Ocasek's nonpresence due to his successful career as a producer, and Benjamin Orr gracefully bowing out because he's dead... Balderdash! Who needs 'em? Behold the New Cars -- a smash hit, like New Coke.

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        The 2006 New Cars reunion tour, feauturing Todd Rundgren and not Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr, is one of the worst music ideas ever.

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