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Car most commonly refers to a road vehicle, commonly with an internal combustion engine, and in American English as an automobile. Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 151 languages. ... Disruptions in organized traffic flow can create delays lasting hours. ... A colorized automobile engine The internal combustion engine is an engine in which the combustion of fuel and an oxidizer (typically air) occurs in a confined space called a combustion chamber. ... For other uses, see American English (disambiguation). ... Car redirects here. ...

Car or CAR may also refer to:

Transportation

Vehicles

• Cars/Automobiles, motorised vehicles. Usually car refers to saloon car/sedan, estate car/station wagon and coupé subsets; but sometimes truck-based vehicles such as pickup trucks and sport utility vehicle (SUV)s.
• Railroad car, a vehicle on a train that is not a locomotive
• Gyrocar, a two-wheeled vehicle balanced by gyroscopes
• Archaic:
  • Chariot
  • Carriage
  • Cart
• The cab of an elevator
• A vehicle on a tram (trolley)

Car redirects here. ... A notchback full-size luxury sedan. ... Estate car body style (Saab 95) A station wagon (United States usage), wagon (Australian usage, though station wagon is widely used) or estate car (United Kingdom usage) is a car body style similar to a sedan car but with an extended rear cargo area. ... The Peugeot 406 Coupé, designed by Pininfarina 1990 Mercedes-Benz 560SEC coupé, noted for its large, angular design 1997 Rover Vitesse Coupe, club coupé Rover P5 Coupe, a traditional four-door coupé Mercedes CLS, a modern four-door coupé Gala-Coupé of Leopold II, Brussels 1970s Sunbeam Alpine fastback coup... The best selling North American pickup truck, the Ford F-Series. ... A fourth-generation (2006-) Ford Explorer, the best-selling mid-size SUV in the United States. ... A railroad car (or, more briefly, car, not to be confused with railcar), also known as an item of rolling stock, is a vehicle on a railroad (or railway) that is not a locomotive — one that provides another purpose than purely haulage, although some types of car are powered. ... A gyrocar is a two-wheeled automobile. ... For other uses, see Chariot (disambiguation). ... Catherine IIs carved, painted and gilded Coronation Coach (Hermitage Museum) George VI and Queen Elizabeth in a landau with footmen and an outrider, Canada 1939 The classic definition of a carriage is a four-wheeled horse drawn private passenger vehicle with leaf springs (elliptical springs in the 19th century... A cart is a vehicle or device, using two wheels and normally one horse, designed for transport. ... For other uses, see Elevator (disambiguation). ... This article refers to public transport vehicles running on rails. ...

Other

• Canadian Atlantic Railway, a Canadian and U.S. railway existing from 1988 to 1994
• Canadian Aviation Regulations, the rules governing civil aviation in Canada
• Caribou Municipal Airport, an airport in Maine with the IATA code CAR
• Avis Budget Group, a car rental company known as CAR on the New York Stock Exchange

The Canadian Atlantic Railway (CAR) is a historic Canadian and U.S. railway that existed from 1988 to 1994. ... The Canadian Aviation Regulations (CARs) are the rules that govern civil aviation in Canada. ... Caribou Municipal Airport (IATA: CAR, ICAO: KCAR) is a general aviation airport located 1 mile (2 km) northwest of the city of Caribou in Aroostook County, Maine, USA. Facilities Caribou Municipal Airport covers 75 acres and has two runways: Runway 01/19: 4,003 x 100 ft. ... Avis Budget Group NYSE: CAR, was founded in 2006 as the successor company to Cendant Corporation. ...

Media and entertainment

• Cars (film)
• Die-cast Pixar Cars, toy cars based on the characters from Cars (film)
• Cars (video game), a video game based on the film
• The Cars, a musical group
• "Cars" (song), a 1979 single by Gary Numan
• "Car", a song by Built to Spill on their 1994 album There's Nothing Wrong with Love
• "The Car", a song by Jeff Carson on his 1995 album Jeff Carson
• Cars (Fear Factory Cover), a single by Gary Numan

This article is about the animated movie. ... Cars is a video game based on the Cars (film) film, and a sequel to the Disney/Pixar film. ... The Cars were an American rock band, fronted by Ric Ocasek, that emerged from the early punk scene in the late 1970s. ... Audio sample Info (help· info) Cars is a 1979 song by Gary Numan, released as a single from the album The Pleasure Principle. ... Theres Nothing Wrong With Love album cover Theres Nothing Wrong With Love was the second full-length album released by indie rock band Built to Spill. ... Cars is a single/cover of Gary Numan by Musicial Act Fear Factory. ...

Geography and politics

• Central African Republic, a country
• Cordillera Administrative Region, a region of the Philippines
• Action Committee for Renewal, a political party of Togo
• Tsar, a kind of monarch

The Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) of the Philippines consists of the provinces of Abra, Benguet, Ifugao, Kalinga, Mountain Province and Apayao. ... The Action Committee for Renewal (French: Comité dAction pour la Renouveau) is a political party in Togo. ... Tsar (Bulgarian, Serbian and Macedonian цар, Russian  , in scientific transliteration respectively car and car ), occasionally spelled Czar or Tzar and sometimes Csar or Zar in English, is a Slavonic term designating certain monarchs. ...

Economics and finance

• Capital adequacy ratio, a ratio of a bank's capital to its risk
• Cost Accrual Ratio, an accounting formula
• Cumulative average return, a financial concept related to the time value of money

This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... The Cost Accrual Ratio for a business may be defined as the total average cost per person per unit time, e. ... Compound annual growth rate (CAGR) is one method of assessing the average growth of a value over time. ...

Firearms

• Colt Automatic Rifle, a 5.56 mm NATO firearm
• CAR-15, a family of AR-15 and M16 rifle-based firearms
• Center Axis Relock, a shooting technique

Colt Automatic Rifle is a 5. ... CAR-15 is a common name applied to many carbine variants of the Colt AR-15 rifle (adopted by the USA as the M16 rifle) in both military and civilian service. ... Center Axis Relock is a new shooting system primarily intended for close quarters battle shooting. ...

Military

• The Canadian Airborne Regiment, a Canadian Forces formation
• Combat Action Ribbon, a United States military decoration

Canadian Airbone Regiment logo. ... Combat Action Ribbon The Combat Action Ribbon is a personal military decoration of the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps, and which is awarded to those who, in any grade including and below that of a Captain in the Navy (or Colonel in the Marine Corps), have actively...

Sports

• Confederation of African Rugby, the governing body for rugby unions in Africa
• Carolina Panthers, a football team

The CAR logo. ... League/Conference affiliations National Football League (1995–present) National Football Conference (1995-present) NFC West (1995-2001) NFC South (2002-present) Current uniform Team colors Black, Panther Blue, Silver, White Mascot Sir Purr Personnel Owner Jerry Richardson General Manager Marty Hurney Head Coach John Fox Team history Carolina Panthers (1995...

Other meanings

• Car (mythology), the leader of the Carians
• Car language
• CAR and CDR, operations used in computer programming
• Canonical anticommutation relation, a concept in quantum field theory
• Central Apparatus Room, an equipment room found at broadcasting facilities
• Children of the American Revolution, a genealogical society
• Computer-assisted reporting, the use of computers in researching news stories
• Carina (constellation)
• Club Automobile de Rallye of Mauritius, a member of the FIA
• Center Axis Relock

This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Car is the most widely spoken of the Nicobarese languages spoken in the Nicobar Islands of India. ... Introduced in the Lisp programming language, car (IPA [kar], just like the English word car) and cdr (IPA [kʌ dər] or [ku dər]) are primitive operations upon linked lists composed of cons cells. ... In quantum field theory, if V is a real vector space equipped with a nonsingular real antisymmetric bilinear form (,) (i. ... Central Apparatus Room or CAR or Central Machine Room, are room or several rooms found at broadcast facilities. ... The Children of the American Revolution (C.A.R.) was founded in 1895 by Harriet Lothrop. ... Computer-assisted reporting is the use of computers to gather and analyze the data necessary to write news stories. ... Carina (IPA: , Latin: ) is a southern constellation which forms part of the old constellation of Argo Navis. ... The Fédération Internationale de lAutomobile, commonly referred to as the FIA, is a non-profit association established in 1904 to represent the interest of motoring organisations and motor car users. ... Center Axis Relock is a new shooting system primarily intended for close quarters battle shooting. ...

See also

• Truck
• CARS
• Carr

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