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Golf cart
A golf cart, or golf buggy, is a small vehicle carrying two to six golfers and their equipment around a course, typically limited to 20 mph.
Grand tourer
A grand tourer (GT, from the Italian gran turismo) is a fast, comfortable coupe built for long-distance high-speed touring, sitting between a sports car and a luxury car.
Hackney carriage
A hackney carriage, also known as a hackney cab or black cab, is a vehicle licensed in the United Kingdom to carry paying passengers without a prior booking.
Hardtop
A hardtop is an automobile body style with a rigid metal roof and no center pillar between the side windows, pioneered by the 1949 Buick Roadmaster Riviera.
Hatchback
A hatchback is a passenger car whose rear door, incorporating the rear window, swings upward to open the cargo area to the cabin, unlike a sedan's trunk, in a two-box body design.
Hearse
A hearse, also called a funeral coach, is a vehicle built to carry a coffin at a funeral, typically leading the procession from service to burial.
Hybrid electric vehicle
A hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) is a vehicle pairing an internal combustion engine with one or more electric motors and a battery, combining liquid fuel with reclaimed braking energy.
Kammback
A Kammback, also called a Kamm tail, is a car body style with a tapering roofline cut off abruptly at the rear, named after German aerodynamicist Wunibald Kamm.
Kei car
The kei car, or keijidōsha (軽自動車, "light automobile"), is a Japanese legal category of very small cars and trucks with 660 cc engines, created in 1949.
Kei truck
A kei truck, known in Japan as keitora, is a small pickup truck built to Japan's kei-car rules, ubiquitous in Japanese farming, forestry, and delivery.
Kit car
A kit car is an automobile sold as a set of parts for the buyer to assemble, ranging from complete packages to body-and-chassis sets needing a donor vehicle.
Landau (automobile)
A landau is a car body style, named for a German city and a carriage, in which the roof over the rear passenger compartment folds back.
Liftback
A liftback is a car body style with a single top-hinged rear door incorporating the rear window, combining fastback-like proportions with hatchback cargo access; Toyota coined the term in 1973.
Limousine
A limousine is a luxury chauffeur-driven car with an enclosed passenger compartment separated from the driver, formally defined in 1916 and best known today in the stretched form.
List of automobile drag coefficients
The list of automobile drag coefficients covers how efficiently car shapes cut through air, from about 0.8 for 1920s cars to 0.20 for the best electric sedans.
List of cars with non-standard door designs
A list of cars with doors that open by mechanisms other than conventional front-hinged doors, covering suicide, gullwing, scissor, sliding, butterfly, swan, and canopy designs.
Luxury car
A luxury car, or luxury automobile, is a premium passenger vehicle defined by brand heritage, engineering performance, interior quality, and technology, typically priced from about $30,000 to beyond $200,000.
Microcar
A microcar is a very small, low-powered automobile. The type emerged in postwar Europe with vehicles like the BMW Isetta, and today most EU microcars are approved as quadricycles.
Mid-size car
A mid-size car, or intermediate car, is a passenger vehicle larger than a compact car and smaller than a full-size car, the US class of the Toyota Camry and Honda Accord.
Minivan
A minivan, also called a people carrier, is a car-based passenger vehicle with three rows of seats and sliding rear doors, created by Chrysler in 1983.
Motorhome
A motorhome, also known as a motor caravan, is a self-propelled road vehicle built to provide living accommodation, with permanently installed sleeping, cooking, and storage facilities.
Muscle car
A muscle car, also known as an American muscle car, is a high-performance American automobile with a large V8 and rear-wheel drive, launched by the 1964 Pontiac GTO.
Neighborhood electric vehicle
A neighborhood electric vehicle, also called a neighborhood electric car, is a small battery-powered vehicle capped at 25 mph, used for short trips in communities and neighborhoods.
Off-road vehicle
An off-road vehicle is a motor vehicle built to drive on unpaved terrain such as dirt, sand, mud, and rocks, with four-wheel drive and high ground clearance.
Official state car
An official state car is a government-provided vehicle for a head of state or head of government, ranging from leased limousines to bespoke armored cars.
Open-wheel car
An open-wheel car, also known as a single-seater or monoposto, is a racing car whose wheels sit outside the bodywork, defining Formula 1 and IndyCar.
Pillar (car)
A pillar in a car is a vertical body member lettered A to D from front to back that supports the roof and helps resist crush in rollovers.
Police car
A police car, also known as a police cruiser or squad car, is a vehicle used by law enforcement for patrol, pursuit, prisoner transport, and as a mobile office.
Police vehicles in the United States and Canada
Police vehicles in the United States and Canada are civilian-derived automobiles, mostly full-size SUVs, built to police package specifications for better acceleration, braking, and handling.
Pony car
A pony car is a class of American compact car with a long hood, short rear deck, and optional V8 power, named for the Ford Mustang of 1964 and led by rivals like the Chevrolet Camaro.