Outline of automobiles
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Short description: Overview of and topical guide to automobiles
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to automobiles:
Automobile (or car) – wheeled passenger vehicle that carries its own motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to six people, typically have four wheels, and be constructed principally for the transport of people rather than goods. As of 2002 there were 590 million passenger cars worldwide (roughly one car for every eleven people), of which 140 million were in the United States (roughly one car for every two people).
Types of automobile
The basic automobile is privately owned for transporting the owner and his or her passengers. See automobile. Other types of cars include:
- Alternative fuel vehicle
- Armored car
- Battery vehicle (electric car)
- Police car
- Solar vehicle
- Taxicab
By car body style
- By size
- City car
- Compact car
- Full-size car
- Kei car
- Large family car
- Microcar
- Mid-size car
- Supermini
- Voiturette
- By body style
- Convertible
- Cabrio coach
- Drophead coupe
- Retractable hardtop
- Roadster
- Targa top
- T-top
- Coupé
- Quad coupé
- Crossover SUV
- Fastback
- Hardtop
- Hatchback
- Liftback
- Limousine
- Minivan
- Notchback
- Pickup truck
- Sedan (Saloon)
- Shooting-brake
- Sport utility vehicle
- Station wagon
- Touring car
- Town car
- Van
- Leisure activity vehicle
- Panel van
- Tow truck
- Convertible
- Other car types
Specialized vehicles
- Amphibious vehicle
- Driverless car
- Flying car
- Gyrocar
By propulsion system
By engine
By engine type
- Engine configuration (IC engines only)
- Flat engine
- Flathead engine
- Four-stroke engine
- H engine
- Pushrod engine
- Reciprocating engine
- Single-cylinder engine
- Straight engine
- Straight-six engine
- Two-stroke engine
- V engine
- W engine
- Wankel engine
By engine fuel type
- Engine fuel type
- Diesel engine
- Electric car
- Gasoline engine
- Hybrid vehicle
- Hydrogen vehicle
- Steam car
By engine positioning
- Engine positioning
- Front-engine
- Rear-engine
- Mid-engine
By drive type
By layout
- Layout
- Front-engine, front-wheel-drive
- Rear-engine, front-wheel-drive
- Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive
- Front mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive
- Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive
- Mid-engine, front-wheel-drive
- Rear-engine, rear-wheel-drive
Automotive design
- Automotive design
- Body
- Framework
- Automobile platform
- Body-on-frame
- Bumper
- Cabrio coach
- Chassis
- Continental tire
- Crumple zone
- Dagmar bumpers
- Decklid
- Fender
- Fender skirts
- Grille (architecture)
- Hood
- Hood scoop
- Monocoque
- Overhang
- Pillar
- Ponton (automobile)
- Pontoon fenders
- Quarter panel
- Shaker scoop
- Spoiler
- Subframe
- Tonneau
- Compartments
- Trunk/Boot/Dickie
- Hood/Bonnet
- Doors
- Butterfly doors
- Canopy door
- Gull-wing door
- Scissor doors
- Sliding doors
- Suicide door
- Glass
- Other
- Lighting
- Daytime running lamp
- Headlamp
- Hidden headlamps
- High-intensity discharge lamps
- Retroreflector
- Sealed beam
- Trafficators
- Legal and other
- Motor vehicle theft
- Parking sensors
- Vanity plate
- Vehicle Identification Number
- Vehicle registration plate
- Vehicle horn • Windshield/Windscreen washer fluid
- Wing mirror
- Interior equipment
- Instruments
- Backup camera
- Boost gauge
- Buzzer
- Carputer
- Electronic instrument cluster
- Fuel gauge
- Global Positioning System and Automotive navigation system
- Head-up display
- Idiot light
- Malfunction Indicator Lamp
- Night vision
- Odometer
- Radar detector
- LIDAR detector
- Speedometer
- Tachometer
- Trip computer
- Controls
- Theft deterrence
- Safety & seating
- Airbag
- Armrest
- Automatic seat belts
- Bench seat
- Bucket seat
- Child safety lock
- Rumble seat
- Seat belt
- Other
- Air conditioning
- Automobile accessory power
- Car audio
- Car phone
- Center console
- Dashboard
- Flat tire
- Glove compartment
- RF connector
- Power steering
- Rear-view mirror
- Smart key
- Sun visor
- Trap (secret compartment)
History of automobiles
- History of steam road vehicles
- Cugnot's fardier à vapeur – an experimental steam-driven artillery tractor regarded by some as the first 'car'
- Benz Patent Motorwagen – First purpose-built automobile
General automobile concepts
- Driving
- Vehicle dynamics
- Road traffic safety
- Automobile safety
- Active safety
- Crash test
- Crash test dummy
- Crashworthiness
- Side collision
- Vehicle rollover
- Traffic collision
- Automobile safety rating
Auto parts and systems
- Car engine
- Basic terminology
- Bore
- Compression ratio
- Crank
- Cylinder
- Dead centre
- Diesel engine
- Dry sump
- Engine balance
- Engine configuration
- Engine displacement
- Engine knocking
- Firing order
- Hydrolock
- Petrol engine
- Power band
- Redline
- Spark-ignition engine
- Stroke
- Stroke ratio
- Wet sump
- Main components
- Valvetrain
- Aspiration
- Air filter
- Blowoff valve
- Boost controller
- Butterfly valve
- Centrifugal type supercharger
- Cold air intake
- Dump valve
- Electronic throttle control
- Forced induction
- Inlet manifold
- Intake
- Intercooler
- Manifold vacuum
- Naturally aspirated engine
- Ram-air intake
- Scroll-type supercharger
- Short ram air intake
- Supercharger
- Throttle
- Throttle body
- Turbocharger
- Twin-turbo
- Variable geometry turbocharger
- Variable length intake manifold
- Warm air intake
- Fuel system
- Carburetor
- Common rail
- Direct injection
- Fuel filter
- Fuel injection
- Fuel pump
- Fuel tank
- Gasoline direct injection
- Indirect injection
- Injection pump
- Lean burn
- Unit Injector
- Electrics, ignition and
engine management- Air-fuel ratio meter
- Alternator
- Automatic Performance Control
- Car battery
- Contact breaker
- Crank sensor
- Distributor
- Dynamo
- Drive by wire
- Electrical ballast
- Electronic control unit
- Engine control unit
- Glow plug
- High tension leads
- Ignition coil
- Lead–acid battery
- Ignition magneto
- Mass flow sensor
- Oxygen sensor
- Spark plug
- Starter motor
- Exhaust system
- Engine cooling
- Other components
- Basic terminology
- Powertrain
- Hybrid powertrains
- Transmission
- Automatic transmission
- Clutch
- Continuously variable transmission
- Differential
- Drive shaft
- Dual-clutch transmission
- Automated manual transmission
- Electrorheological clutch
- Epicyclic gearing
- Fluid coupling
- Gear stick
- Limited-slip differential
- Locking differential
- Manual transmission
- Manumatic
- Parking pawl
- Semi-automatic transmission
- Torque converter
- Transaxle
- Transmission control unit
- Universal joint
- Suspension
- Anti-roll bar (sway bar)
- Axle
- Axle track
- Beam axle
- Camber angle
- Car handling
- Coil spring
- De Dion tube
- Double-wishbone
- Hydragas
- Hydrolastic
- Hydropneumatic
- Independent suspension
- Leaf spring
- Live axle
- MacPherson strut
- Multi-link suspension
- Panhard rod
- Shock absorber
- Swing axle
- Toe angle
- Torsion bar
- Trailing arm
- Unsprung mass
- Watt's linkage • Wheel alignment
- Wheelbase
- Steering
- Ackermann steering geometry
- Caster angle
- Kingpin
- Oversteer
- Power steering
- Rack and pinion
- Torque steering
- Understeer
- Brakes
- Advanced emergency braking system
- Anti-lock Braking System (ABS)
- Brake bleeding
- Brake fade
- Brake fluid
- Brake lining
- Disc brake
- Drum brake
- Electronic Brakeforce Distribution
- Electronic Stability Control
- Engine braking
- Hydraulic brake
- Hydraulic fluid
- Inboard brake
- Parking brake
- Regenerative brake
- Vacuum servo
- Roadwheels and tires (tyres)
- Automobile safety technology
See also
- CarDomain (an online community site for car enthusiasts)
- Outline of bicycles
- Automobile lists
- Lists of automobiles
- List of auto parts
- List of automobiles by sales
- List of countries by automobile production
- List of car brands
- List of automobile manufacturers
- List of solar car teams
- List of military armoured cars
- List of sports car manufacturers
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