Playing Gran Turismo is the automotive equivalent of air guitar.

Many of these new passionate, possibly xenophobic pitches seem the automotive equivalent of negative political advertising.

Even so, there is an automotive equivalent to what packaged-goods manufacturers call value brands, name-brand products priced below their premium-priced counterparts.

After years of financial distress Ford needs a home run, not the automotive equivalent of a bunt with two men out.

A Hummer H2 is, after all, the automotive equivalent of a codpiece, whether it's being driven by a man or a woman.

Unfortunately, their Land Rover had developed the automotive equivalent of a smoker's hack.

The witness in the case was an event data recorder, an automotive equivalent of the black boxes used to reconstruct plane crashes.

The man (and increasingly, the woman) behind the wheel of a pickup is the automotive equivalent of the lone rider loping off into the horizon.

The universal moaned to itself, and the Chrysler began to have the automotive equivalent of a petit mal epileptic seizure.

Now they bring six-figure sums at auctions, the automotive equivalent of the Mickey Mantle rookie card you threw out.