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Vehicle Types - Types of Car classification

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  • British Sports cars

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    British Sports cars

    British Sports cars Under Construction History and view by decade of British Sports cars View all British Sports cars in related items Below.

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  • Bus & Coach

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    Bus & Coach

    Bus & Coach View all Coach & Buses in related items Below. A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry many passengers. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers.The most common type of bus is the single-decker rigid bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker and articulated buses, and ...

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  • Campervan

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    Campervan

    Campervan View all camper vans in related items Below. A campervan (or camper van), sometimes referred to as a camper, or a caravanette, is a self-propelled vehicle that provides both transport and sleeping accommodation. The term mainly describes vans that have been fitted out, often with a coachb ...

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  • Concept Cars

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    Concept Cars

    Concept car Alfa Romeo b.a.t Concept View all Concept cars in related items Below A concept car (also known as concept vehicle, show vehicle or prototype) is a car made to showcase new styling and/or new technology. They are often shown at motor shows to gauge customer reaction to new and radical d ...

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  • Convertibles

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    Convertibles

    Convertible Body cars View all convertible cars in related items Below. A convertible or cabriolet is an automobile body style that can convert between an open-air mode and an enclosed one, varying in degree and means by model. Convertibles evolved from the earlier phaeton, an open vehicle without ...

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  • Electric vehicles

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    Electric vehicles

    History of the electric vehicle Detroit Electric Town Car from 1912 View all Electric vehicles in related items Below. Electric vehicles first appeared in the mid-19th century. An electric vehicle held the vehicular land speed record until around 1900. The high cost, low top speed, and short range ...

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  • Hot hatch

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    Hot hatch

    Hot hatch Cars View all Hot Hatch cars in related items Below. Hot hatch (shortened from hot hatchback) is a high-performance derivative of a car body style consisting of a three- or five-door hatchback automobile. The performance upgrades of a hot hatch are sometimes available for the estatevarian ...

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  • Hypercars

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    Hypercars

    Hypercars What qualifies to be a hyper car? Well no set of rules apply but here is my list of some basic must haves. A few basic rules apply you’ve got an absurdly large amount of free cash to buy one. The car must be able to reach over 322 KPH which is 200 MPH Very Limited Production Or even hand ...

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  • Kit car

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    Kit car

    Kit car View all Kit cars in related items Below. A kit car, also known as a "component car", is an automobile that is available as a set of parts that a manufacturer sells and the buyer himself then assembles into a functioning car. Usually, many of the major mechanical systems such as the engine ...

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  • Limousine

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    Limousine

    Limousine View all Limousines in related items Below. A limousine (or limo) is a luxury sedan or saloon car generally driven by a chauffeur and with a partition between the driver and the passenger compartment. Limousines often have a lengthened wheelbase. Although usually associated with luxury ve ...

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  • Luxury vehicles

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    Luxury vehicles

    Luxury vehicles View all Luxury vehicles in related items Below. Luxury vehicle is a marketing term for a vehicle that provides luxury — pleasant or desirable features beyond strict necessity — at increased expense The term suggests a vehicle with higher quality equipment, better performance, more ...

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  • Microcars

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    Microcars

    Microcar and Bubble car View all microcar and bubble cars,also cyclecars in related items Below. A microcar is the smallest automobile classification, usually applied to very small cars (smaller than city cars). Such small cars were generally referred to as cyclecars until the 1940s. More recent mo ...

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  • Military vehicles

    Military vehicles
    Military vehicles

    Military vehicles types and history 1917 Hudson Military Vehicle WW1 View all Military vehicles in related items Below A military vehicle is a type of vehicle that includes all land combat and transportation vehicles, which are designed for or are significantly used by military forces.Many military ...

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  • Off-road vehicle

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    Off-road vehicle

    Off-road 4X4 vehicles View all Off-road 4X4 vehicles in related items Below. An off-road vehicle is considered to be any type of vehicle which is capable of driving on and off paved or gravel surface. It is generally characterized by having largetires with deep, open treads, a flexible suspension, ...

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  • Pickup truck

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    Pickup truck

    Pickup truck View all Pick Up Trucks in related items Below. A pickup truck is a light duty truck having an enclosed cab and an open cargo area with low sides and tailgate. Once a work tool with few creature comforts, in the 1950s consumers began purchasing pickups for lifestyle reasons and by the ...

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  • Sports cars

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    Sports cars

    Sports cars Select Type in related items Below. A sports car (sportscar) is a small, usually two seater, two door automobile designed for spirited performance and nimble handling. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the first known use of the term was in 1928. Sports cars may be spartan or ...

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