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car boot storage area of car (US: trunk). Can also mean car boot sale. car hire car rental car park area where cars are parked (US usually parking lot if outdoor, parking garage if indoor). carer a person who cares for another, such as a child, elderly, or disabled person. (US: caregiver) carriageway
In truth, the car sold well. [70] The same has been said of the Vauxhall Nova, which had to be sold as an Opel Corsa in Spain. This too is a myth, as the car was built in Spain and known there as a Corsa from the outset. The stress of "Nova" is quite different from "no va", and Spanish speakers would be familiar with Nova as the Latin word for ...
Describing the Allanté as "wildly overpriced, bland and sloppy handling" which "hit the market with a thud," The Truth About Cars offshoot side Curbside Classic wrote of it, "If ever there was a metaphor for GM's deaf, dumb and blind market comprehension, this was it. The fact that the Allanté had to be designed and partially assembled in ...
The concept of describing a highly flawed item as a "lemon" predates its use in describing cars and can be traced back to the beginning of the 20th century as a British and American slang term. "To hand someone a lemon" in British slang dated 1906 was "to pass off a sub-standard article as a good one"; in 1909, American English slang use of ...
Three-box form Alfa Romeo Giulia (Type 105) sedan/saloon Three-box form A categorization based on overall form design using rough rectangle volumes. In the case of the three-box form, there is a "box" delineating a separate volume from the a-pillar forward, a second box comprising the passenger volume, and third box comprising the trunk area—e.g., a Sedan.
The label manager was so embarrassed that she said she would try to get us tickets to the show that night (a TV show performance- she/we never got them) to see her and told us to please leave all ...
The claim: Video shows Kamala Harris slurred words in Helene remarks. A Sept. 27 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows Vice President Kamala Harris delivering a warning about Hurricane ...
A decrepit car is a car that is often old and damaged and is in a barely functional state. There are many slang terms used to describe such cars, such as beater , clunker , chod , flivver , hooptie/hoopty , jalopy , old banger (most commonly used in the UK), but the most popular being junk car .