A car is a motor vehicle with wheels.

Car, Cars, CAR or CARS may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

  • Cars (franchise), an animated film series
  • Cars (film), a 2006 animated film
  • The Car (1977 film), an American horror film
  • The Car (1997 film), a Malayalam film
  • Car, one of the BBC Two 1991–2001 idents
  • "The Car", an episode of The Amazing World of Gumball season 1
  • "The Car", an episode of The Assistants
  • "Car" (My Hero), a 2001 television episode
  • "Car" (Not Going Out), a 2017 television episode

Literature

  • Car (magazine), a British auto-enthusiast publication
  • The Car (novel), by Gary Paulsen, 1993

Music

  • The Cars, an American band
  • The Cars (album), 1978
  • Peter Gabriel (1977 album), or Car
  • Cars (soundtrack), the soundtrack to the 2006 film
  • Cars (Now, Now Every Children album), 2009
  • CARS, a 2011 album by Kris Delmhorst
  • C.A.R. (album), by Serengeti, 2012
  • The Car (album), by Arctic Monkeys, 2022
  • "The Car" (song), by Jeff Carson, 1995
  • "Cars" (song), by Gary Numan, 1979
  • "Car", a song by Built to Spill from the 1994 album There's Nothing Wrong with Love

Other uses in arts and entertainment

  • Cars (painting), a series of paintings by Andy Warhol
  • The Car (Brack), a 1955 painting by John Brack
  • Cars (video game), a 2006 video game based on the film

Businesses and organisations

  • CAR Group, a global digital marketplace company
  • Children of the American Revolution, a youth organization
  • Conflict Armament Research, a British-based investigative organization
  • Comité d'Action pour la Renouveau ('Action Committee for Renewal'), a political party of Togo
  • Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, in reconciliation in Australia
  • Council for Aboriginal Rights (1951–1980s), in Australia
  • Rugby Africa, formerly known as Confederation of African Rugby (CAR)
  • World Skate Asia, formerly known as Confederation of Asia Roller Sports (CARS)

Military

  • Canadian Airborne Regiment, a Canadian Forces formation
  • Colt Automatic Rifle, a firearm
  • Combat Action Ribbon, a United States military decoration
  • U.S. Army Combat Arms Regimental System, a 1950s reorganisation of the regiments of the US Army

People

  • Car (surname), including a list of people with the name
  • Cars (surname), including a list of people with the name

Places

  • Car, Azerbaijan
  • Čar, Serbia
  • Caribbean Community, UNDP country code
  • Cars, Gironde, France
  • Les Cars, Haute-Vienne, France
  • Central African Republic (CAR)
  • Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), Philippines

Science and technology

Astronomy

  • Carina (constellation), abbreviation Car
  • Theta Carinae, star in Carina

Computing

  • C.a.R., geometry software
  • Cache as RAM, a step of UEFI booting process
  • CAR and CDR, commands in LISP computer programming
  • Clock with Adaptive Replacement, a page replacement algorithm
  • Computer-assisted reporting
  • Computer-assisted reviewing

Biology and medicine

  • Car (beetle), a genus of insects in the family Caridae
  • CAR T cell, receptor proteins
  • Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS), a behavior rating scale
  • Conditioned avoidance response test, an animal test used to identify drug effects
  • Constitutive androstane receptor, a protein
  • Cortisol awakening response, on waking from sleep
  • Coxsackievirus and adenovirus receptor, a protein

Other uses in science and technology

  • Cable television relay service station (CARS), in telecommunications
  • CCR and CAR algebras (canonical anticommutation relations), in quantum mechanics
  • Central apparatus room, in broadcast facilities and television studios
  • Coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy (CARS), a form of spectroscopy

Transportation

  • Railroad car, a vehicle on a rail transport network
  • Tram, or streetcar, a type of railway that runs on streets
  • Canada Atlantic Railway, 1879–1914
  • Canadian Atlantic Railway, 1986–1994
  • Canadian Aviation Regulations (CARs)
  • Carlisle railway station, England, station code CAR
  • Carrum railway station, Australia, station code CAR
  • Car, the cab of an elevator

Other uses

  • Car (mythology), one or two figures in Greek mythology
  • Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS), a vehicle scrappage program
  • Car language, a language of the Nicobar Islands
  • Carib language, ISO 639 language code car, a Cariban language of South America
  • Caucasian Achievement and Recognition Scholarship, at Boston University
  • Capital adequacy ratio, a measure of a bank's capital
  • Club Always Ready, a Bolivian football club
  • Cost accrual ratio, in finance
  • Cumulative abnormal return, in investing
  • Criminal Appeal Reports, in England & Wales

See also

  • Carr (disambiguation)
  • Le Car (disambiguation)
  • ICAR (disambiguation)