Appendix:Australian English motoring terms


 * ambo - ambulance, ambulance driver
 * bingle - motor vehicle accident
 * bogged - stuck in mud, deep sand (a vehicle)
 * bull bar or roo bar - stout bar fixed to the front of a vehicle to protect it against hitting kangaroos
 * Commodore – popular family car designed and built by Holden
 * donk – a combustion engine
 * feral - V8 ute sporting large heavy bullbar, numerous aerials, large truck mudflaps and stickers almost all over the rear window and tailgate. Sometimes seen with a Mack emblem on the bonnet and always with large (multiple) driving lights
 * Falcon – popular family car designed and built by Ford Australia
 * Holden – Australian branch of General Motors. Manufacturers of the Commodore in addition to other models.
 * Magna – family car designed and built by Mitsubishi Motors Australia, until 2004. Replaced by the Mitsubishi 380.
 * occy strap - elastic strap with hooks on the ends for securing items
 * prang - motor vehicle accident
 * rego - vehicle registration
 * road train - big truck with many trailers
 * servo - a petrol station, a service station
 * traficator – blinkers, car indicators
 * wagon – station waggon in US, estate car in UK
 * ute - utility vehicle, pickup truck
 * U-ie or yewy, less commonly U-bolt or U-burn – a U-turn; to chuck a u-ie is to make a u-turn