Driver's Seat

"Driver's Seat"
Single by Sniff 'n' the Tears
from the album Fickle Heart
B-side"Slide Away"
ReleasedDecember 8, 1978
RecordedSeptember 1978
GenreNew wave
Length
  • 3:59 (album version)
  • 3:42 (single version)
  • 5:48 (12" version)
Label
Songwriter(s)Paul Roberts
Producer(s)Luigi Salvoni
Sniff 'n' the Tears singles chronology
"New Lines on Love"
(1978)
"Driver's Seat"
(1978)
"Poison Pen Mail"
(1980)

"Driver's Seat" is a 1978 song by British band Sniff 'n' the Tears, released as a single from their 1979 debut album Fickle Heart. The song reached the top 20 in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, as well as the top 10 in the Netherlands. Belatedly issued in the United States during the summer of 1979, it climbed to #15 on Billboard Hot 100.

In 1991, the song made the number one spot in the Netherlands after it was used in a commercial for the Pioneer car stereo throughout Europe.