Car (disambiguation)
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Car most commonly refers to a road vehicle (sometimes with off-road capability), commonly with an internal combustion engine, and in American English as an automobile.
Car or CAR may also refer to:
[edit] Transportation
[edit] 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:
- The cab of an elevator
- A vehicle on a tram (trolley)
[edit] Other
- Center for Automotive Research, an Ann Arbor-based non-profit automotive industry research organization
- 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
[edit] Media and entertainment
- Cars (film)
- Disney Pixar Cars Die-Cast Line, 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] Military
- The Canadian Airborne Regiment, a Canadian Forces formation
- Combat Action Ribbon, a United States military decoration
[edit] Sports
- Confederation of African Rugby, the governing body for rugby unions in Africa
- Carolina Panthers, a football team
[edit] 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