Outline of automobiles
Appearance
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 U.S. (roughly one car for every two people).
Types of automobile
[edit]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
[edit]- By size
- By body style
- Other car types
Specialized vehicles
[edit]By propulsion system
[edit]By engine
[edit]By engine type
[edit]- Engine configuration (IC engines only)
By engine fuel type
[edit]- Engine fuel type
By engine positioning
[edit]- Engine positioning
- Front-engine
- Rear-engine
- Mid-engine
By drive type
[edit]By layout
[edit]Automotive design
[edit]- Automotive design
- Body
- Framework
- Automobile platform
- Car model
- Trim level
- Car tuning
- 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
- Doors
- Glass
- Other
- Lighting
- Legal and other
- Interior equipment
- Instruments
- Controls
- Theft deterrence
- Safety & seating
- Other
History of automobiles
[edit]- 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
[edit]Auto parts and systems
[edit]- Car engine
- Basic terminology
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
[edit]- 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