cars coloring pages 2
cars coloring pages
A car (also called an automobile) is a machine used for travel (a vehicle). Cars are different from motorcycles, and bicycles.
A car has an engine to move it, put together with three or more wheels (usually four), a purpose-built body frame, and controls such as a steering wheel and brakes. Big trucks that carry heavy things can have 18 wheels, sometimes even more, but they are not proper cars. Cars come in many shapes and sizes. They usually have a seat for the driver and at least one passenger, and most have a total of 4 to 6.
Some small “city” cars carry only two people, and/or have very little luggage space; other types are able to carry many passengers or heavy loads. For example, family station wagons carry from 6 to 9 people, or fewer people with lots of luggage. Buses can carry even more, but are much bigger. A van or pickup truck is a car-like vehicle made for carrying medium sized loads, for example of goods for delivery or plumber’s and builder’s tools and materials. Trucks (or lorries) are much bigger, like buses, and can carry very large and heavy items, but are bad for carrying passengers; they may be built in one piece, or have a smaller “tractor” (for the driver and engine) that pulls a large seperate “trailer” (a box on wheels with no engine or controls other than brakes). Passenger cars and buses may also pull smaller trailers to increase their carrying capacity, including mobile homes (Caravans or RVs; also names for bus-like vehicles built as one-piece mobile homes), but this is less common.
In order for a car to move, it must have fuel, most often petrol, which is sometimes called gasoline, or diesel. Other less common fuels are natural gas, or electricity. Many car-making companies are also now trying to build vehicles that run successfully using hydrogen fuel cells, which are as convenient as petrol or diesel fuelled cars but do not give out any polluting exhaust gases (but making hydrogen may at first still need electricity made by a powerplant that burns similar fossil fuels).