touring car
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A large open car seating four or more people and having a folding top. An automobile designed for touring; specifically, a roomy car, not a limousine.
(motor racing) A type of race car based on a modified production car, that is a sedan or saloon car.
Coordinate terms: stock car, sports car, super car, GT
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Formula 1 star Lewis Hamilton performing demonstration laps at Brands Hatch in 2008, when he visited the circuit for the British round of the DTM German touring car championship.
At the same time he was a regular sports car and touring car driver, winning the 1000km Monza with Marc Surer in 1985.
During the first BTCC meeting at Silverstone in the same year, Cox mentions that MSD re-designed the 406 touring car "from the ground up".
Production car racing, known in the US as "showroom stock", is an economical and rules restricted version of touring car racing.
It would be an ambush by political opponents that finally brought him down, as he rode brazenly in an open touring car.
After the touring cars became a BMW-Mazda-Acura affair, the series was reformatted to include a new touring car class mostly sharing Grand Am's Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge vehicles.