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A car is a type of vehicle, most often in American English an automobile.

Car may also refer to:

Transportation

Vehicles

• Railroad car, a vehicle on a train that is not a locomotive
• Archaic for:
  • Chariot
  • Carriage
  • Cart
• The cab of an elevator
• A vehicle on a tram (trolley)

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

Media and entertainment

• Cars, 2006 computer animated film from Disney and Pixar
• 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 Fear Factory
• Peter Gabriel (1977 album), one of four albums named Peter Gabriel, often referred to as "Car" because of the photograph on the album cover
• The Car, a 1977 suspense-horror film

Geography and politics

• Central African Republic
• Cordillera Administrative Region, a region of the Philippines
• Car, Azerbaijan, a village
• Action Committee for Renewal, a political party of Togo

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

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

Military

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

Sports

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

Other meanings

• Car (mythology), the leader of the Carians
• Car language, the most widely spoken of the Nicobarese languages
• 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
• CAR (for Cocksackie Adenovirus Receptor), alternative symbol for the human gene CXADR

See also

• Truck
• CARS
• Carr
• CXADR
• Cars

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