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Touring car

Touring car \Tour"ing car\ An automobile designed for touring; specif., a roomy car, not a limousine, for five or more passengers.

Wiktionary
touring car

n. A large open car seating four with folding top. An automobile designed for touring; specifically, a roomy car, not a limousine.

WordNet
touring car

n. large open car seating four with folding top [syn: phaeton, tourer]

Wikipedia
Touring car

A touring car is an open car seating four or more. A popular car body style in the early twentieth century, it declined in popularity in the 1920s when closed bodies became less expensive.

A tourer, in Britain and the Commonwealth, is a similar vehicle; however, the term is sometimes used to describe pre-war two-seaters which, in US terminology, would be roadsters. The term "all-weather tourer" was used to describe open vehicles that could be fully enclosed.

A popular version of the touring car style was the torpedo, with the hood/bonnet line at the car's waistline giving the car a straight line from front to back. This eventually became the normal version of the touring car, and the term "torpedo" fell out of use, having been replaced by the hardtop.

Usage examples of "touring car".

I gobbled my food, paid off for it and for three quarts of apple brandy at a dollar a quart, shook hands and went back out to the touring car.

Once they went out in the touring car, taking their aunt and uncle along.

Jack Ness was to go with them as far as Oak Run, to bring the touring car back.

His great, bronze hands and corded arms picked the fellow out of the touring car as though he were a murderous little rodent.

The special guard pushed closer and looked into the burned touring car.

Solo swung wide around the touring car, passed the taxi and pulled up beside the sedan.

Gabe eyed his touring car as it pulled away and thought what a real hors& ass Elfred was.

Tires shrieked on the roadway, the car rocked and finally came to a stop not many yards from the ditched touring car.

Then you haven't had a chance to try your-your-'big new touring car' ?

The touring car rooted on through the rain and gloom for nearly a mile.

The wheels drummed on cobbles and splashed dirough refuse and waste, throwing him lurching into die four Marines packed into die rear of die touring car.

Peter left the borrowed touring car in the garage of its owner, a trusted friend, then led Jon and Randi onto the metro.