car
motorized road vehicle designed to carry one to eight people rather than primarily goods
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Summary
car is a type of machine[1]. car has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Ferdinand Verbiest[3]
- Instance of: type of vehicle[4]
- Physically interacts with: road[5], pedestrian[6]
- Subclass of: multi-track vehicle[7], road vehicle[8], motor vehicle[9]
- Part of: road transport[10]
- Has use: motorized private transport[11], taxi[12], transport[13], passenger transportation[14], terrorist attack[15]
- Commons category: Automobiles[16]
- Said to be the same as: passenger car[17]
- Unicode character: 🚗[18], 🚘[19]
- Has part(s): engine[20], steering wheel[21], axle[22], fuel tank[23], air filter[24], oxygen sensor[25], shock absorber[26], ball joint[27], carburetor[28], seat[29], vehicle door[30], dashboard[31], manual transmission[32], fuel door[33]
- Time of discovery or invention: 1884[34]
- Source of energy: gasoline[35], diesel fuel[36], electricity[37], green hydrogen[38], solar energy[39], ethanol fuel[40], liquefied petroleum gas[41]
- Topic's main category: Category:Cars[42]
- Commons gallery: Automobile[43]
- Maximum capacity: 8[44]
- Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Cars[45]
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Influence
Things named for car include popemobile[46], in Vatican City[47] and Auto Train[48], a train service[49], in United States[50], founded in 1983[51].
Why It Matters
car is known by 105 alternative names across languages and contexts.[52]
Entities named for car include popemobile[46], in Vatican City[47] and Auto Train[48], a train service[49], in United States[50], founded in 1983[51].