Not necessarily car specific, but a general night-time technique is to strongly back light so the characters (or car is this case) appears clearly, but in silhouette. Also, if for example the car was approaching the camera for a close-up on the driver - perhaps to deliver dialog or to observe an event then you could have a some sort of soft, highly diffused light into which the car pulled up.

Reflections are a nightmare in these situations, but something you can do to smooth over that is to use a practical light source (a bar or shop-front maybe) and boost it's light output to light the foreground. Or rig a large practical light such as a discharge flood to make it look like a street light in your wide shot.