Keep getting, OperationalError: near "%": syntax error

[fholm11]

I keep getting this error and i am not sure on how to fix it. It shouldn't be a formatting/brackets thing but at this point I wouldn't be surprised. Thank you for any help.

 print("What two companies would you like to compare? ")
    Company1 = input("What is the first company you would like? ")
    Company2 = input("What is the second company you would like to add? ")
    comData = [Company1, Company2]
    carComData = (comData) 
    cursor.execute("Select * from Cars where (Car_brand like %s) or (Car_brand like %s) order by car_id", (Company1, Company2))
    cursor.execute(sql)
    result = cursor.fetchall()
    df = pd.DataFrame(result, columns=['Car_id', 'Car_Brand', 'Car_Model', 'Year', 'VIN', 'KmsTravelled', 'Price', 'Dealer_id'])
    print (df)

[buran]

what DB do you use? try to execute the statement outside python
also, I think the statement should be
"Select * from Cars where (Car_brand like '%s') or (Car_brand like '%s') order by car_id"
i.e. params/values enclosed in single quotes