Young stars and their cars

This pop sensation is no stranger to audacious autos. He had a minor crash in a matte-black Ferrari F430, a loaner from a friend and mentor. He owns an inexplicably Batman-themed, custom-built Cadillac CTS-V coupe with suicide doors, and he received this chromed Fisker Karma as a gift from his manager. The gaudy plug-in hybrid has attracted attention worldwide, including some unwanted notice from law enforcement; the singer was given a speeding ticket for driving 100 mph in the machine in July 2012.

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2009 Ferrari 430 Scuderia

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Left to his own devices, this singer and actor is an Audi man. He has owned an A6, an S6 and, more recently, a 2011 S5 coupe. Here, he's just making do by driving his "High School Musical" co-star and then-girlfriend around Burbank, Calif., in her rented Porsche Cayenne. Spacious yet road-tuned, the Cayenne remains one of the go-to trucks in Hollywood.

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2012 Porsche Cayenne

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The restoration work makes it hard to pin down the exact model year of this singer's Shelby Cobra GT. Maybe it's a '67 with misleading headlamps or a '68 GT350 with a modified hood scoop. Either way, it's a gorgeous, classic, Shelby-ized Mustang, so who cares? The musician has since abandoned such vintage pony perfection for a 2009 Dodge Charger and the even more bewildering 2010 limited-edition Ford Harley Davidson F-150 pickup.

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2013 Ford Shelby GT500

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It's tempting to imagine that in the "post-teen, married dude" phase of his life, this singer is making a statement with this Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid. While the pop star was given a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder back in 2008, he has mothballed it in favor of everyman Americana, such as the Jeep Commander and, more recently, a 2010 Chevrolet Camaro.

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2013 Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid

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Exhibiting a surprising level of taste for someone whose day job used to involve wearing a cheerleader outfit — she starred in the CW's "Hellcats" — this actress drives a Porsche Boxster. It's a step down in size but a bigger step up in appropriate starlet transportation from her Mercedes-Benz G550 SUV.

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2013 Porsche Boxster

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When she was a girl, this singer and actress drove girlish things — her mom's Porsche Cayenne GTS, for example, and her own nifty little black Toyota Prius, which she was proud to tell reporters was "good for the environment." Now that she's a woman, she drives a Mercedes-Benz SL550, like the black one shown here, or the white convertible model that she picked up in early 2012.

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2013 Mercedes-Benz SL-Class

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Way back in 2008, before this actress/singer was old enough to drive, it beckoned from her driveway: a Ford Escape Hybrid. In 2009, she talked about that very Escape, her planned first car: "A lot of people call it a soccer-mom car, but I think it's a safe ride." The singer's dream came true, as she now drives a silver 2009 Ford Escape Hybrid, which, for the record, is a truck.

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2012 Ford Escape Hybrid

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This actress, who starred in the long-running TV series "The Suite Life of Zach and Cody" and co-starred in the movie "The Social Network," drives a Mercedes G500, a white one she bought in 2012. She clearly loves the G-Class SUV, declaring in a 2009 interview, "I wanted this car, like, my whole life, and it's amazing."

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2013 Mercedes-Benz G-Class

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Like her ex-boyfriend, Zac Efron, this actress has brand loyalty to Audi, having owned both an S4 cabriolet and her latest, an S5, also a convertible. She may have had a crisis of conscience back in 2008, when she motored around in a Lexus RX 400h, the first luxury SUV hybrid, but it was a phase. All along, she's managed to have a steady stream of accidents, none serious but all embarrassing.

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2013 Audi S5

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For more information on the vehicles in this slideshow, click the links below:

-Porsche Cayenne
-Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid
-Porsche Boxster
-Ford Escape Hybrid
-Mercedes-Benz G-Class
-Mercedes-Benz SL-Class
-Audi S5

Based out of the Boston area, Erik Sofge is frequent contributor to Popular Mechanics and Slate.com. He specializes in everything scientific and technical.