Z car

Definition

An official government car, especially a Comcar.

Etymology

The cars' number plates began with the letter Z.

Example Sentences

• "It was hot, which did nothing for the collective irritability, until Senator Chaney turned up and suggested we use his chauffeur-driven Z car — blissfully air-conditioned."
• "On the Sunday, it was a roughly 900 km drive all the way back north to Woomera. Specially for this very long run we had swapped 'our' Z car for one that had just been serviced.[…]Since it was a government car we had dockets to obtain 'free' fuel, provided we went to an Ampol service station, back then a network of Government-owned garages."