Illustrated Car Vocabulary
Words commonly used to describe parts of a car. You can download this image as an A4/A3 wall poster from our free ESL posters page.
Vocabulary in context
Below, you see the words used in example sentences- aerial (UK): The aerial on the car enables us to pick up radio signals.
- antenna (US): The antenna on the car enables us to pick up radio signals.
- bonnet (UK): A bird landed on the bonnet of my car.
- boot (UK): I opened the boot and took out my suitcase.
- bumper: There are bumpers at the front and at the back of the car.
- headlight: When driving at night, we must turn on our headlights.
- hood (US): A bird landed on the hood of my car.
- indicator (UK): The indicator tells us when the car is going to turn.
- license plate (US): I recognised his car because of the license plate.
- mirror: I looked in the mirror to see what was behind me.
- number plate (UK): I recognised his car because of the number plate.
- tire (US): I needed to put more air in my tires.
- trunk (US): I opened the trunk and took out my suitcase.
- turn signal (US): The turn signal tells us when the car is going to turn.
- tyre (UK): I needed to put more air in my tyres.
- wheel: The wheels began to turn as he started to drive.
- windscreen (UK), windshield (US): The windscreen was dirty, and I couldn’t see what was ahead of me.
- windscreen wiper (UK), windshield wiper (US): I turned on the windshield wipers to clean the windshield.