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Automobile Emoji 🚗

A red sedan shown at a slight angle, front-facing — that's the automobile emoji. It's used for driving, road trips, and cars in general, from a new-license milestone to a caption on someone's first car, and it gets reached for anytime the mode of transport is specifically four wheels rather than two.

What 🚗 means

A left-facing red car, with a tall roof, a curved nose, a slightly visible windshield and a back window, a side window, a rearview mirror, a headlight, a taillight, an antenna on the hind roof, and two pairs of wheels.

The 🚗 Automobile emoji represents the typical modern-day car that's engine-powered and motorized. This emoji also signifies private travel, leisure, the joys of driving, and owning these automobiles.

How and when to use it

Use 🚗 in the caption while posting pictures of your new car.
You could also use 🚗 while reposting pictures/videos of fantastic automobiles that are visually pleasing, mind-boggling, modified, anything related to unique automobiles.
If you got an offer to work at an automobile company, then guess what, you could use 🚗 while sharing this special memory as a social media post and even while texting someone about it.
Since an automobile is a privately owned four-wheeler, you could use 🚗 while sharing anything related to driving, at a personal level. For instance, "Hey. I'll be back home in a while. Going out for a drive 🚗".
Use 🚗 to indicate that you either received an automobile as a gift or gifted one to somebody.

Other Names

🚗 Car
🚗 Private Car
🚗 Four-Wheeler
🚗 Motor Car
🚗 Motorized Vehicle
🚗 Petrol Vehicle
🚗 Diesel-Powered Vehicle
🚗 Red Car

🚗 in real conversations

What does 🚗 usually mean in texting?

Mostly literal — on my way, running an errand, stuck in traffic, captioning a road trip photo. It's one of the plainer emoji in the whole set: no hidden slang to decode, just a quick, obvious stand-in for 'car' wherever typing the word out would be slower than tapping the icon.

Why do people post 🚗 when they buy a new car?

It's the fastest way to caption the milestone without writing a paragraph about financing and test drives — 🚗 next to a photo of the keys or the driveway reads instantly as 'look what I got,' the same flex energy as a new-apartment or new-job post, just aimed at a car instead.

Is there a difference between 🚗 and 🚙?

Mostly body style — 🚗 renders as a standard sedan, while 🚙 shows a boxier SUV. Neither carries a different slang meaning; people mostly just pick whichever shape happens to match the car they're actually talking about, or whichever their keyboard happens to suggest first when they start typing 'car.'

The lowdown

Category: Travel & Places › transport-ground
Codepoints: U+1F697
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :car: GitHub · Slack:red_car::automobile: Discord
Keywords: automobile, car, driving, vehicle

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.