High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The New Cars first tour, the first time an incarnation of The Cars has toured in seventeen years. The summer leg was of large-scale arenas, whereas the winter dates are scheduled to be of much smaller, theatre, venues. The tour was arranged in hopes of rekindling interest in the band, in the wake of popular new wave bands like Franz Ferdinand and The Killers. VH-1 Classic sponsored the tour, and commercials were aired frequently on VH-1 and its sister channels to draw attention to the tour.