Automobiles

Automobiles groups every privately owned, individually operated passenger road vehicle in this atlas, from the earliest pioneer designs of the 1880s and 1900s through modern economy, family, luxury, sports and electric models. Belongs here: any car, whatever its era, market segment, body style or country of origin, built for one owner or household to drive on ordinary roads, including historic firsts, mass market family sedans, luxury and executive marques, sports cars, supercars, muscle cars, sport utility and off road vehicles, and electric or hybrid models. As real world automobile coverage widens toward the tens of thousands of makes and models this atlas is working toward, new automobiles are placed here rather than under an invented finer split, until a future structure wave reintroduces market segment groups beneath this one. Does not belong here: motorcycles and other powered two and three wheeled vehicles, buses and other road mass transit vehicles, and commercial trucks, each grouped under its own subcategory, and a car's engine, which is grouped under the engine type rather than the vehicle it powers.