An automobile , auto car, motor car or car is
a wheeled motor vehicle used fortransporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor. Most definitions
of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have
seating for the one to eight people, to typically have four wheels , and to be constructed
principally for the transport of people rather than goods.
A self-propelled passenger vehicle that usually has four wheels and an internal-combustion engine, used for land transport. Also called motorcar.
There are approximately 600 million passenger cars worldwide
(roughly one car per eleven people). Around the world, there were about 806 million cars and light trucks on the road in 2007; they burn over a billion cubic meters (260 billion US gallons) of petrol/gasoline and diesel fuel yearly. The numbers are increasing rapidly, especially in China and India.