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  • adjective Describing a vehicle that can legally be operated on public streets.

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Examples

  • In fact, aside from offerings from Volkswagen (the Beetle and Rabbit), MINI, and Smart, Americans have relatively little experience with truly small cars (minicars in particular are typically defined as street-legal vehicles less than 11.8 feet long).

    Safest 2010 Small Cars 2010

  • Ford / Wieck The 2012 444-horsepower Ford Mustang Boss 302 can be ordered with a special "Laguna Seca" package that essentially makes it a street-legal race car.

    Muscle Cars, Then and Now 2011

  • I'd rather see a street-legal 535 SMR, which doesn't exist right now except in my imagination.

    KTM plans to dominate US streetbike scene - Hell For Leather 2009

  • Try a 444-horsepower Ford Mustang Boss 302, which can be ordered with a special "Laguna Seca" package that essentially makes it a street-legal race car.

    Muscle Cars, No Midlife Crisis Required Joseph B. White 2011

  • That car is the first model from Coda Automotive Inc., a Santa Monica, Calif., startup that wants to combine U.S. engineering and quality control with Chinese manufacturing to overcome the cost barrier that has kept modern, street-legal, all-electric cars out of the reach of most U.S. consumers.

    Can This Car Dent the Prius? Joseph B. White 2010

  • For a street-legal production car, anything under eight minutes around the Ring is considered world-class.

    Honoring 'the King of the Ring' 2010

  • That car is the first model from Coda Automotive Inc., a Santa Monica, Calif., startup that wants to combine U.S. engineering and quality control with Chinese manufacturing to overcome the cost barrier that has kept modern, street-legal, all-electric cars out of the reach of most U.S. consumers.

    Can This Car Dent the Prius? Joseph B. White 2010

  • The 599 GTO's winning formula goes back to 1962, when the Ferrari 250 GTO represented the world's best racing technology packed into what many considered the first super-car, a street-legal racer.

    The Need for Speed 2010

  • That car is the first model from Coda Automotive Inc., a Santa Monica, Calif., startup that wants to combine U.S. engineering and quality control with Chinese manufacturing to overcome the cost barrier that has kept modern, street-legal, all-electric cars out of the reach of most U.S. consumers.

    Can This Car Dent the Prius? Joseph B. White 2010

  • That car is the first model from Coda Automotive Inc., a Santa Monica, Calif., startup that wants to combine U.S. engineering and quality control with Chinese manufacturing to overcome the cost barrier that has kept modern, street-legal, all-electric cars out of the reach of most U.S. consumers.

    Can This Car Dent the Prius? Joseph B. White 2010

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