passenger car

noun

US
: a railroad car that carries passengers

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Hybrids, meanwhile, have gained steadily—sales surged 36 percent in the second half of 2025, reaching nearly 15 percent of all passenger car purchases. Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 5 Feb. 2026 Closely following Ford's spinoff of the Transit Custom line as a lighter, more passenger car-like FWD van alternative sized to compete with midsize vans like the Volkswagen Transporter and Citroën Berlingo, the Nugget slid over to the smaller, more efficient van platform. New Atlas, 29 Jan. 2026 Tesla’s Model 3 sedan was the state’s second-best selling passenger car, trailing the Toyota Camry. Bloomberg, Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2026 The driver of a passenger car was killed Thursday morning after a head-on collision with a school bus on eastbound Manhattan-Monee Road, just west of School House Road in Will County. Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 15 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for passenger car

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“Passenger car.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/passenger%20car. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.

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