reward car
n.— «Our feeling is that Boomers are still in the market for a reward car and there will be a long, stable market for convertibles.» —“Automakers play ‘can you top this?’ Convertibles still stir competitive juices” by Mark Savage Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Wisc.) May 8, 1996. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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