Should it instead be:
$ch = curl_init();
// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://cars.com/go/search/fs_search_results.jsp?tracktype=usedcc&searchType=21&cid=&dlid=&dgid=&amid=&cname=&zc=90802&makeid=18&modelid=214&pageNumber=0&numResultsPerPage=50&largeNumResultsPerPage=0&sortorder=descending&sortfield=PRICE+descending&certifiedOnly=false&criteria=K-%7CE-%7CM-_18_%7CB-5000%7CD-_214_%7CN-N%7CR-50%7CI-1%7CP-PRICE+descending%7CQ-descending%7CZ-90802&aff=azcentr&aff=azcentr');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$page = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $page;
(Code adapted to example on PHP's manual entry for [man]curl_init[/man])