a car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors
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a closed litter for one passenger
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Sedan \Se*dan"\, n. [Said to be named from Sedan, in France, where it was first made, and whence it was introduced into England in the time of King Charles I.] A portable chair or covered vehicle for carrying a single person, -- usually borne on poles by two men. Called also {sedan chair}.
Police gave no motive for the slaying of Angela de Guerrero, 32. She was shot four times as she sat in her small sedan outside a supermarket in Bogota's northern suburbs by two gunmen who fled in a white car.
These days Ms. Griffith drives a sedate BMW sedan.
Witnesses said Mrs. Rainey drove herself and her wounded sister and niece away from the church after the shooting, and her Ford sedan was riddled with bullet holes.
The Lexus LS 400 is Toyota's first V-8 four-door luxury sedan. The car has 250 horsepower and a top speed of 150 mph.
Above all, the firm owes its recovery to the Ibiza model, a medium-small sedan launched in 1984 as Spain's first entirely domestically mass-produced automobile.
Prices for the newly redesigned Excel subcompact now range from $5,899 for the three-door hatchback equipped with a four-speed manual transmission to $8,979 for the GLS four-door sedan with a new four-speed automatic overdrive transmission.
The Accord is the best family sedan sold in the United States, the periodical said last summer.
Mazda already has a luxury sedan that it sells in Japan under the name Eunos Cosmos.
The 10 vehicles with the worst injury loss record were all in the small sedan or small sports car category.
The Civic line, Honda's lowest-priced car line, offers sedan, hatchback and wagon models.
Police reported that before dawn, the navy blue Audi sedan, its motor and lights off, was rolled down a street leading to the Commodore Hotel.
"The four-door sport-utility vehicle is the family sedan of the '90s," says Christopher Cedergren, director of competitive assessments at J.D. Power & Associates, a market research firm.
Oldsmobile, for example, offered rebates ranging from $1,000 on the 1989-model Eighty-Eight sedan to $2,500 on the 1989 Toronado coupe.
According to the insurance group, the Mercedes-Benz SDL-SEL sedan, which is equipped with a driver-side airbag, had the best safety record with injury losses that were 58 percent lower than the average for all cars.
Within 10 years the industry will have developed a new streamlined shape - not so much a Mercedes family sedan, more a sleek and sporty Audi.
And this fall, Volkswagen will introduce its redesigned Jetta sedan and Golf hatchback.
Today, a Volkswagen customer can expect to wait as long as four months for a new Golf compact or half a year for a Passat sedan, depending on specifications.
He motors around this ancient city of temples and teahouses in a sleek, black sedan rather than the company's traditional red-and-white taxi.
Initially, Mrs. Gentile had told police Stephen was taken from his stroller by two men in a black sedan who stopped her to ask directions as she was walking towards St. Ephram's grammar school Wednesday morning.
The new rebates on 1988 and 1989 models range from $500 on several models to $2,000 on The Eagle Premier LTD sedan.
As GM's Japanese competitors push more new vehicles into the midsized family sedan and truck markets that GM traditionally dominated, the big auto maker's market share could continue to drift downward.
For the 1992 model year, which begins in October, Mazda is revamping several models, including the 626 sedan and the MX-6 coupe.
The new plant, at which New Avanti expects to start production later this year, will make a four-door sedan and a four-door limited edition limousine.
Even the lowest-priced 1992 Civic sedan, at $11,305, costs nearly $900 more than Toyota Motor Corp.'s lowest-priced Corolla and about $3,000 more than a General Motors Corp.
Lumina will replace all Celebrity models except the station wagon by the 1990 model year. The 1990 model of a Lumina sedan will be introduced next spring.
Just five months after its introduction, General Motors Corp. is raising the price of its 1990 Chevrolet Lumina sedan, the first of a new line of four-door sedans GM is counting on to boost its sagging car-market share.
But the timing for the Lumina sedan may not be the best.
A small four-door sedan nicknamed the "Daewoo Racer" is being exported to Czechoslovakia, the first Korean-made automobile to be sold to a East European country, officials said today.
The Civic four-door sedan was added to production at Marysville in July 1986.
"The rainmaker became venerated and was carried around on a sedan chair," says Don Reuben, a well-known Chicago rainmaker.