Aeroplanes:
"And biplanes bombed with fluffy pillows." (The Day)
"Got a job as a test pilot" (I'm Def)
"In September, Bill chipped a tooth, skywriting far above the planet Earth." ('85 Radio Special Thank You)
"Yawn as your plane goes down in flames." (Cage And Aquarium)
"The plane can never land" (Shoehorn With Teeth)
"I see you from my spy plane, baby" (Spy)
"By airplane to the rocket" (Destination Moon)
"I'm calling from the plane." (I Can Hear You)
"No planes in the sky" (Dark And Metric)
Bicycles:
"Ride her bike down Toddler Hiway" (Toddler Hiway)
"I get on my bike, ride down our block" (Narrow Your Eyes)
Dirt Bike
"In a big South Carolina wreck, I crash my bicycle." (South Carolina)
"Who's going to ride my bike when I'm back in school?" (Poison Flowers)
Blimps:
"Tell the pilot and the blimp" (Mr. Hughes Says)
Boats:
Boat Of Car
"Or if he knows to sail" (Chess Piece Face)
"But I set my sails so long ago, they've revoked my sailor's badge." (Piece Of Dirt)
"After killing Jason off and countless screaming Argonauts" (The Argo was a ship, after all.) (Birdhouse In Your Soul)
"When the ship runs out of ocean" (Women And Men)
"I might gaze on a submarine" (Spy)
"Who's going to steal the rowboats from the lifeguard's station?" (Poison Flowers)
Buses:
"To the horn on the pole at the bus depot" (Ana Ng)
"I get on the bus, ride past our stop" (Narrow Your Eyes)
"As the bus drove by" (Cabbagetown)
"I packed my stuff, was on the bus" (New York City)
"Waiting at the bus stop for just about an hour" (Pet Name)
Cars:
"The Shriners loaned us cars." (She's An Angel)
Boat Of Car
"She's got three cars, as many years I've lived in this city." (The Famous Polka)
"In March, we were all trapped deep inside a stowaway car" ('85 Radio Special Thank You)
"Get out of the car" (I've Got A Match)
"There's a new car on the horizon." (Kitten Intro)
"I'd steal somebody's Cadillac." (If I Wasn't Shy)
"Come on and wreck my car" (Fingertips)
"He drops his car keys" (I Blame You)
"This Nova rolls" (Moving To The Sun)
"As I got hit by a car, there was a message for me." (Subliminal)
"No furs, or pearls, or fancy cars, or diamond rings" (She Was A Hotel Detective)
"By taxi to the airport" (Destination Moon)
"I'm looking for my car, but I must have sold my car" (A Self Called Nowhere)
"Step away from the car. The car is protected by Viper." (I Can Hear You)
"Please bring your car around." (I Can Hear You)
"There's a car without a handle, and that car is still at large" (Summer Breeze)
"I felt so dizzy I got in my car and got in an accident" (Rest Awhile)
"No taxi can take you" (Dark And Metric)
"Cars can pass me by; I don't mind." (So Long, Mockingbird)
"Tell the streetlights and the car" (Mr. Hughes Says)
"A black behemoth Caddy" (Hillbilly Drummer Girl)
Cranes:
They'll Need A Crane
Fire Engines:
"And as the screaming fire engine siren filled the air" (The Statue Got Me High)
Miscellaneous (no specific vehicle mentioned):
"Just drinkin' and a-drivin'" (Alienation's For The Rich)
"When I was driving once, I saw this painted on a bridge." (Ana Ng)
"Birds fly into my windshield" (Birds Fly)
"Can't drive out the way we drove in" (Road Movie To Berlin)
"Squares may look distant in her rearview mirror, but they're actual size, as she drives away." (She's Actual Size)
"Doing doughnuts on the neighbour's lawn" (My Evil Twin)
"They thought we were part of a caravan" (Moving To The Sun)
"I must drive now carefully" (Moving To The Sun)
"I got a ride home with a drunk guy" (Sleeping In The Flowers)
AKA Driver
"Drive Me Nervous" (Why Must I Be Sad?)
"Under My Wheels" (Why Must I Be Sad?)
"I'm waiting for my ride" (A Self Called Nowhere)
"When the indicator says you're out of oil, should you continue driving anyway?" (Thermostat)
"This was the vehicle, these were the people" (The End Of The Tour)
"They Might Be Giants got lost driving around" (They Got Lost)
"Up the driveway, down the walk" (We Just Go Nuts At Christmastime)
"Folks drive in from out of town to gaze in amazement when they see it" (The Edison Museum)
"Down my driveway I came" (Careless Santa)
"Driving my house to Idaho" (Idaho)
Roads:
Toddler Hiway
"We're out on the road." (We're The Replacements)
"Avalanche or roadblock" (Snowball In Hell)
Road Movie To Berlin
"She's the only girl in this back alleyway" (She Was A Hotel Detective)
"Hey, NyQuil driver, get out of my lane" (AKA Driver)
"Never to part since the day we met out on Interstate 91" (The End Of The Tour)
"And I'm trying to walk away from First Avenue to A" (On The Drag)
"Headlights turn into the drive" (Rat Patrol)
"Eyes never leave the road" (Idaho)
Spacecraft:
"There has been a spacecraft sighted" (For Science)
"She's not your satellite" (Twisting)
"In the spaceship, the silver spaceship" (The Guitar)
"By rocket to the Moon" (Destination Moon)
Surfboards:
"Put down that surfboard" (Now That I Have Everything)
"He brought his red surfboard, to race against the Lord." (The Devil Went Down To Newport)
Tanks:
"Speak softly, drive a Sherman tank" (Rhythm Section Want Ad)
Trailers:
"Just like in 'The Long Long Trailer'" (Everything Right Is Wrong Again)
Trains:
"32 boxcars, all of them have your face." (32 Footsteps)
"As I rode the subway this morning" (Mainstream U.S.A.)
"And this train keeps rolling off the track" (It's Not My Birthday)
"That person took a train to Africa" (Weep Day)
"Sure as you can't steer a train, you can't change your fate." (Lucky Ball And Chain)
"But this railroad apartment was the perfect place" (Lucky Ball And Chain)
"We were waving our arms out the window of a fast-moving passenger train" (Turn Around)
Mrs. Train
Token Back To Brooklyn (I'm pretty sure that it's a subway token.)
"My biggest expectations put me on her train" (Living Doll)
"No trains rolling by" (Dark And Metric)
"Hear the scream that the turning subway made" (Backstabbing Liar)
Trucks:
"Truckers pass, calling out their handles to the kid." (Rabid Child)
"Run over my body with your pickup truck" (Ondine)
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