The VW New Beetle, for example, is a Cartoon—there’s a reason automobiles normally don’t look like the St. Louis Gateway Arch. (Those reasons are 1) aerodynamics and 2) rear-seat headroom.) ...

Hot Rod Magazine discusses the history of cars in, well, cartoons in such diverse publishers as Hanna-Barbara, Hot Wheels, and Marvel.

A new survey of more than 2,000 Americans by British license plate trading firm click4reg.co.uk found that, given their pick of cartoon vehicles, 57 percent would take George Jetson's flying car ...