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1659 J. Bland Trade Revived 32 The sixth meanes to ease and incourage trade and traders is, that the great trouble and vexations which they lye under, by reason of Car Porters, and wharfingers may be removed.

1841 N.Y. Herald 25 June 2/5 At Syracuse take the packet boats (by way of relief from car travel).

1849 S. G. Goodrich First. Bk. Hist. (ed. 4) v. 22/2 Here you will see a car factory, where they make the convenient and splendid cars that are used on railroads.

1862 Morning Post 4 Feb. 2/5 All the sneering of the Ultramontane journalists about Sir Robert Peel's rapid car-journey through the West has availed nothing.

1880 Isle of Man Times 26 June 5/4 The car industry of this town is a most important one.

1922 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 22 Sept. 7/4 The government is not contemplating any drastic action to compel car users to give up riding for pleasure or recreation.

1931 Times 30 May 14/1 (heading) Youths sentenced for car theft.

1942 Pop. Mech. Mag. Feb. 149/1 When a starting motor fails to crank the car engine properly, the trouble will most commonly be found not in the motor itself.

1961 B. P. Pashigian Distribution of Automobiles viii. 227 Data showing the distribution of car sales by size of city are practically non-existent.

1978 Boating Apr. 35/1 Car speakers haven't exactly been noted for high performance or high fidelity.

1989 S. Walklate Victimology v. 122 A further third of victims of both burglary and car theft wanted compensation.

1995 Daily Tel. 17 Nov. 19/2 Work is still the main cause of car travel.

1999 M. Hulse tr. W. G. Sebald Vertigo (2000) ii. 89 A vertiginous feeling came over me as it used to in my childhood, when any car journey would make me feel sick.

2012 Tasmanian Country (Nexis) 3 Feb. 17 The job losses that would follow if the car industry collapsed.