motor car (UK)—an automobile; a four-wheel road vehicle:
- John was driving a motor car eastwards when it skidded on the icebound roadway, causing the car to turn completely round.
motor car (U.S.)—
1. = motor car (UK):
- It takes a leisurely sort of a millionaire indeed who can afford to come in his motor car all the way downtown through the press and strain of Broadway traffic.
2. a self-propelled vehicle operated on rails along a regular route:
- Do you remember those railroad motor cars you used to see in the fifties and sixties on virtually every line in the U.S. and Canada?