Automobile

An automobile was a type of land vehicle used by a variety of species from different planets. They were used primarily for transportation of people, goods, and materials.
On Earth, automobiles were seen as a source of status and virility. They were "often a prime ingredient in teenage mating rituals." ()
Many automobiles were ed by internal combustion engines, which were fueled by fossil fuel. However, this may have not been the case by the year 2061, although the records are unclear. ()
Examples of automobiles included, most commonly, cars, but also encompassed jeeps, karts, trucks, vans, buses and buggies.
Typically, automobiles were self-propelled vehicles designed for land-based travel. The hovercar, which is an automobile capable of traveling above the ground, came around in the 2030s, but still didn't completely replace traditional automobiles, which were around at least as late as the 24th century. (; )
== History ==
In San Francisco in the year 1893, a bellboy named Jack London went across town to get a time warped Data some parts for a machine he was building. The bellboy believed that he was building a motor for an automobile, or "horseless carriage". He asked Data if he thought there was money in that business. He then asked Data if Data would like to build the vehicles, and then he could sell them for him. ()
The Ford Model T was considered the first production model automobile of the 20th century. ()
In 1968, Agent 347 and Agent 201 were killed in an automobile accident on Highway 949, just ten miles away from McKinley Rocket Base. Gary Seven found it terribly sad that they had been killed by a mere accident, rather than the line of duty. ()
At the 2003 State of the Union Address, George W. Bush mentioned his plans for introducing hydrogen automobiles. ()
When Klaang was brought to San Francisco after being shot in Oklahoma, a number of automobiles can be seen driving across the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in the nighttime skyline. ()
In 22nd century Valakis, automobiles were a common sight on the streets and s of that world. ()
In 2152, there was a Jeep that was patrolling Detention Complex 26 in the Tandar sector. ()
In Hoshi Sato's fear induced dream, Doctor Phlox told her that when automobiles were first invented people likely had experienced the same fear that she was facing regarding transporter technology. ()
After Jonathan Archer restored a damaged timeline, an early automobile was seen in the time stream as the timeline realigned itself. ()
In San Francisco in the year 2154, when Jonathan Archer went to a bar where he ran into Hernandez; a number of automobiles could be seen driving across the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in the nighttime skyline. ()
That same year, just before Hoshi Sato and Doctor Phlox left Madame Chang's Mandarin Cafe, a number of automobiles could be seen driving across the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in the San Francisco skyline. ()
In the 2240s in the alternate reality created by Nero's incursion, young was chased by a policeman after he went joyriding in his 's convertible. Kirk nearly went over a cliff in the vehicle. ()
In 2255 of the alternate reality, when a young Jim Kirk was at the Shipyard Bar, and many bar patrons were Starfleet cadets, there were a number of automobiles in the parking lot. There was also an automobile driving down the street, passing the building. ()
In Paris in 2257 when Michael Burnham was informed by Sarek that the President of the United Federation of Planets gave her a full pardon, a number of automobiles were driving on nearby roads. ()
The planet Sigma Iotia II possessed a technology level comparable to 1930s Earth, complete with paved roads and Model T type automobiles. ()
On the planet 892-IV of the System 892, an internal combustion engine driven automobile, called the Jupiter 8, was manufactured in 2268. ()
On the Federation colony planet Omicron Ceti III, there were no automobiles or any other vehicles used by the settlers of the planet, as it wasn't thought to be necessary, because the purpose of the colony was to "return to a less complicated life." ()
In the 2270s, large tubes were used on the Golden Gate Bridge for automobile traffic, tubes which were not in place when the bridge was originally constructed. ()
In 2285 at the San Francisco bar, a Federation Security agent offered to give Doctor McCoy a ride home, giving the implication that the doctor was too intoxicated to drive an automobile. The real reason he offered him a ride home was because McCoy was negotiating payment to an alien that he was going to hire to get him off-world to the forbidden planet known as . After the security agent asked him for a ride McCoy answered: "What's the logic in offering me a ride home you idiot?! If I wanted a ride home, would I be trying to charter a spaceflight?!" ()
In 2364, Captain Jean-Luc Picard sees automobiles in the streets of New York City in his Dixon Hill holoprogram. Later, when he is telling his crew about them in the observation lounge, Worf misunderstands the captain, thinking he said "otto-moveels." Data then tells Worf he is referring to an "ancient Earth device, used primarily for transportation." He goes on to say that they were often seen as a source of status and virility, and often a prime ingredient in teenage mating rituals. ()
In 2365, while a away team was in a hotel modeled after the main of Hotel Royale, told Data that he had a '91 Cadillac. Data then asked him where his automobile was. He then told him it was located "out front, I suppose. What the hell difference does it make?" ()
In 2366, when Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Commander William T. Riker was taking a tour of the capital city on Angosia III, three automobiles could be seen driving down a street. ()
In 2368, Berlinghoff Rasmussen referred to Data as the Model T of androids. Data suggested a more apt analogy would be the Model A automobile, since Data was Noonien Soong's revised prototype. ()
In 2369, when Commander Benjamin Sisko visited Kai Opaka on Bajor for the first time, two automobiles were driving by on streets in the Bajoran capital's skyline. ()
One type of automobile, called a ground assault vehicle, was used by the Klingon Empire, and it was mounted with a targ scoop, a device which emitted a high frequency to disperse large herds of targs so as to clear a path for the vehicle. ()
In the year: 2372, in an alternate timeline in which Harry Kim never joined the crew of the ; a number of automobiles were parked along the edge of a street in one of Marseille's waterfront areas. ()
In 2376, while playing the Fair Haven holoprogram, Tom Paris crashed his automobile and lost a wheel, apparently due to a clutch malfunction. ()
In 2399, there was a bridge in Stardust City on the planet Freecloud that was flooded with automobile traffic. ()
On M'talas Prime, a few automobiles were driving down a street in District Seven, where a Starfleet recruitment base was located. Suddenly, an explosion caused the building to collapse into the ground. The explosion brought one of the automobiles to a stop, almost running it off the road. ()
In 3189, the crew of the watched a silent film called Sherlock Jr. in the shuttlebay, which had a scene with antique automobiles of the 1920s shown parked on the street. ()
Sometime in the far future, a man named Craft was forced to watch a cartoon called Snow-White 811 times. An old-fashioned automobile with a skeleton in it was shown in the cartoon during the scene where the seven dwarfs were carrying Betty Boop in her ice coffin. ()
== Models and types ==
* American Motor Corporation
** AMC Hornet
* Aptera Typ-1
* BMW
** BMW 2002
** BMW 3 Cabrio
** BMW R75
* Chrysler Corporation
** Chrysler
*** Chrysler LeBaron
** Jeep
*** Jeep Wrangler
** Plymouth
*** Plymouth Belvedere
*** Plymouth Satellite
*** Dodge
**** Dodge 600
**** Dodge Challenger Hellcat
**** Dodge Charger Pursuit
**** Dodge Grand Caravan
**** Dodge Half-Ton Pickup Truck
**** Dodge Lancer
**** Dodge Touring Sedan
**** Dodge Ram
**** Dodge WC63
* Citroën
** Citroën 11 B
** Citroën 2CV Charleston
* Grumman LLV
* Datsun
** Datsun 510
** Datsun Truck
* Duesenberg
* Ford Motor Company
** Edsel
** Ford 
*** Ford Crown Victoria
*** Ford EcoSport
*** Ford Escape
*** Ford Escort
*** Ford Falcon
*** Ford LTD Country Squire
*** Ford Model 51
*** Ford Model A
*** Ford Model T
*** Ford Mustang
*** Ford Police Interceptor Utility
*** Ford Tempo
*** Ford Taurus
*** Ford truck
** Lincoln
*** Lincoln Continental Mark VII
*** Lincoln Town Car
** Mercury
*** Mercury Capri
* Fiat 
** Fiat 124 Sport Spider
** Fiat X1/9
* General Motors
** Buick
*** Buick LeSabre
*** Buick Master Six
*** Buick Riviera
** Cadillac
*** Cadillac Series 353
*** Cadillac Seville
*** Cadillac V-12
** Chevrolet
*** Chevrolet Bel Air
*** Chevrolet C 30 Step Van
*** Chevrolet Camaro
*** Chevrolet Caprice
*** Chevrolet Caprice Classic
*** Chevrolet Celebrity
*** Chevrolet Chevette
*** Chevrolet Corvette
*** Chevrolet Cruze
*** Chevrolet Suburban
*** Chevrolet Townsman
*** Chevrolet truck
** GM
*** GM New Look
** Oldsmobile
*** Oldsmobile Ciera
*** Oldsmobile Curved Dash
*** Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais
** Pontiac
*** Pontiac Firebird
*** Pontiac Fiero
* Honda 
** Honda Accord
** Honda Civic
* Jupiter 8
* Lada
* Mazda
** Mazda B-Series
** Mazda GLC
* Mercedes-Benz
** Mercedes-Benz 770
** Mercedes-Benz S-Klasse
* Nissan
** Nissan 280ZX
** Nissan Sentra
* Packard
* Subaru Corporation
** Subaru Outback
* Toyota
** Toyota Avalon
** Toyota Camry
** Toyota Celica
** Toyota Corolla
** Toyota Corona
** Toyota Cressida
** Toyota Fine-N
** Toyota RAV4
** Toyota Tacoma
* Tesla, Inc.
** Tesla Model X
* Volkswagen
** Volkswagen Beetle
** Volkswagen Jetta
** Volkswagen Kübelwagen
** Volkswagen Rabbit
** Volkswagen Type 2
== Gallery ==
File:Chevrolet ambulance.jpg|A Chevrolet Suburban in 1953
File:Automobiles in New York.jpg|Automobiles driving down a New York City street in 1968
File:Parking.jpg| A Volkswagen Beetle in a no parking zone in New York City in 1968
File:Chevrolet truck.jpg|A Chevrolet truck in 1986
File:Automobiles.jpg|Automobiles driving down the Golden Gate Bridge in 1986
File:Jeep, carpenter street.jpg|A Jeep on Carpenter Street in 2004
File:Iotian cars.jpg|Iotian cars on the streets of Sigma Iotia II in 2268
File:Sigma Iotia II street.jpg|More automobiles on Sigma Iotia II in 2268
File:Chevrolet Universal.jpg|Chevrolet Universal
File:Argo ground vehicle, profile view.jpg|An Argo buggy in 2379
File:Silhouette.jpg|An Earth vehicle in San Francisco in 2259
File:Automobile (Snow-White).jpg|An automobile in a Betty Boop cartoon.
== Appendices ==
=== See also === 
* Battery
* Brake
* Bumper sticker
* Car salesman
* Clutch
* Crankcase
* Dealership
* Engine
* License plate
* Parking brake
* Race car
* Radiator
* Tail pipe
* Taxi
* Woofer
=== Background information ===
A deleted scene from the second season episode features a futuristic automobile.
In a deleted scene from , Trip speaks about his grandfather (who may have been Charles Tucker I, or possibly his grandfather on his mother's side.), saying that when the older man "turned eighty, he gave up his business. They practically had to drag him from his garage. He repaired antique automobiles...."
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