Car Text Art

Tap a car to copy every line: 35, with 6 plates, boards and lorry sides you type over once pasted.

Car Text Art

._____________. / ___________ \ / / \ \ _/__/_____________\__\_ | ___ ___ | | (___) ======= (___) | |_____[ BEEP BEEP ]_____| |___| |___|Car with a number plate8 lines, 25 wideReady to copy

35 pieces. Tap one to copy it.

One line 4

Small, 2 to 4 lines 13

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 16

Large, 10 lines and up 2

Next step Cars that are one character each

How it works

Thirty-five pieces of car text art, all drawn for this page: saloons, a stretch limo, a race car, a taxi, a tractor, a car park seen from above. The shortest is one line and the tallest is 10, and every side view faces right.

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Find the right vehicle

The sections go by height: 4 one-liners, 13 small, 16 medium, 2 large. Fits a comment box marks the 31 within 8 lines and 30 columns, this site's rule of thumb and no app's promise. Search reads words the names leave out: truck finds six pieces, three of them named something else, and prom finds the stretch limo.

Put your own words on the side

Six pieces hold words to type over. The plate on the car at the top takes 9 characters, the bus's route board 17, the lorry's trailer 16, the taxi's roof sign 4, and the squash-proof lorry 12 with a dot for each space. Follow a shorter word with spaces, or the wall to its right moves in. Search editable for all six.

Tips

The car ascii art for a username is Car grille, one line: (O)=[|||||||]=(O), 17 characters.
To face a car left, pad every line to one length, reverse it, swap / with \, ( with ) and ` with ', then retype letters: TAXI arrives as IXAT.
Stretch limo stretches: add three underscores to the roof, one more |__ to the windows and three hyphens to the sill.

Questions and answers

Why did the roof slide off my car?

Runs of spaces shrank to one and the upper lines slid left off the wheels. Squash-proof keeps the 9 pieces with no run. Markdown takes a roof of underscores for bold or a rule: put three backticks above and below. The cat page covers both.

Is there a car I can paste as one character?

Several, and no piece here uses one: 🚗 Automobile (U+1F697), 🚕 Taxi (U+1F695), 🚌 Bus (U+1F68C), 🚚 Delivery truck (U+1F69A) and 🚜 Tractor (U+1F69C). Each is an emoji, so the device draws it, and Unicode's emoji standard lets a vendor face it left or right. See the car emoji page.

What is an ascii art car made of?

Mostly underscores, slashes and brackets. Wheels set the scale: a bare o on the two-line car, (o) on the small saloon, (_) on the coupe and taxi, .--. over `--' on the pickup and vans, ( o ) on Vintage car. Monster truck spends five of eight lines on wheels.

All 35 pieces

One line 4

Car fuel gauge Empty on the left, full on the right, seven bars of fourteen showing. Swap a dot for a bar to fill up. 1 line, 20 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Car grille, one line Two round headlights and seven grille bars, seen from the front. Short enough for a name. 1 line, 17 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Car number plate, one line A plate with a bolt at each end. Type over BEEP 123 with anything, because a one-line piece has no wall to keep straight. 1 line, 14 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Two cars on a road Two small cars on a line of underscores, both heading the same way. Add underscores between them for a safer gap. 1 line, 24 wide. Keyboard characters only.

Show all 35 pieces (31 more)

Small, 2 to 4 lines 13

Broken-down car A small saloon with three curls of steam coming off the bonnet. Delete the top line for a milder fault. 4 lines, 18 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Car gear stick pattern The H pattern off the top of a gear knob: five forward gears and reverse. No run of spaces, so nothing can squash it. 3 lines, 5 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Car park, one space left Four bays seen from above, three of them taken, and a P in the empty one. 4 lines, 25 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Low sports coupe A long bonnet, a small cabin set well back and a sloping nose. It faces right. 4 lines, 27 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Race car with a rear wing An open-wheel racer facing right: rear wing, a helmet in the cockpit and a front wing on the nose. 4 lines, 27 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Small saloon car Three lines: a roof, a line of windows with one door pillar, and a sill with two wheels. It faces right. 3 lines, 13 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Squash-proof bus Five windows, a sloping windscreen and a bumper, drawn without one space. 4 lines, 17 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Squash-proof lorry A box lorry with SEND CAKE on the side. Type over the words and keep a dot wherever a space would go: 12 characters between the walls. 4 lines, 20 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Squash-proof pickup truck The load bed is filled with colons where the spaces would be, so every column stays where it was put. 3 lines, 15 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Squash-proof tiny car Two lines with no space anywhere in them. 2 lines, 11 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Stretch limo Seven windows long. To stretch it, add three underscores to the roof, one more window to the middle line and three hyphens to the sill. 3 lines, 30 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Tiny car, two lines A roof, two wheels and nothing else, 8 characters wide. The smallest car here that still has a windscreen. 2 lines, 8 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Wedding car with tin cans Three cans on a string behind the bumper and three hearts drifting off the back. The hearts are typed as <3, so everything here is on a keyboard. 4 lines, 30 wide. Keyboard characters only.

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 16

Bus with a route board Four windows, a door at the front and a destination board along the top. Type over 42 TO THE SEASIDE with your own route, 17 characters at most. 7 lines, 28 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Camper van Two side windows, a cab door and a sloping windscreen on a long flat box. It faces right. 6 lines, 25 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Car towing a caravan A small saloon pulling a caravan with one window and a door. 32 columns wide, so it misses the comment box badge by two. 5 lines, 32 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Car with a number plate Front view: windscreen, two headlights, a grille and a plate. Type over BEEP BEEP with your own plate, 9 characters at most. 8 lines, 25 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Filled car silhouette A saloon filled in with # signs, windows and wheel arches left blank. Swap every # for another character to respray it. 34 columns wide. 9 lines, 34 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Fire engine with a ladder A ladder laid flat along the roof, four lockers down the side and a crew cab at the front. 6 lines, 30 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Hatchback A short car with an upright tailgate and wheels set into arches. It faces right. 5 lines, 18 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Lorry with your words A box trailer on two rear axles behind a small cab. Type over YOUR WORDS HERE, 16 characters at most, and pad a shorter line with spaces so the wall stays put. 6 lines, 30 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Monster truck A small pickup body on two wheels that are each taller than it is. 8 lines, 18 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Off-roader with a spare A boxy four-wheel drive on tall tyres, with the spare wheel hung on the back door as two capital O's. 7 lines, 25 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Open road from the car A straight road running to a flat horizon, with a broken white line down the middle. Seven lines of road: delete from the bottom to shorten it. 8 lines, 25 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Pickup truck A long open bed, a two-door cab and a short sloping bonnet, facing right. 5 lines, 25 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Taxi with a roof sign A four-door saloon with a sign on the roof. Type over TAXI with four characters of your own, or six if you give up the padding. 6 lines, 25 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Tractor A big rear wheel, a small front one, a cab with one window and an exhaust pipe standing up off the bonnet. It faces right. 8 lines, 21 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Traffic light on red Three lamps on a pole with the top one lit. Move the O down a lamp to let the cars go. 7 lines, 5 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Vintage car An upright cabin with two square windows, a long bonnet, a radiator on the nose and mudguards over spoked wheels. 7 lines, 24 wide. Keyboard characters only.

Large, 10 lines and up 2

Car seen from above Bonnet at the top, then the windscreen, the roof, the rear window and the boot, with a wing mirror each side. 10 lines, 15 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Road trip car scene A small saloon on a dashed road under a line of mountains, with the sun up on the left. Delete the top three lines for an overcast day. 10 lines, 29 wide. Keyboard characters only.

How this list was compiled: Every piece was drawn for this page and checked in a monospaced font on 2026-09-19; none is copied from an archive or another site. The set covers cars from the side, the front and above, from a two-line runabout to a filled silhouette; working vehicles (pickup, lorry, bus, camper van, fire engine, tractor, taxi); six pieces with words to type over; a few things from the road and the dashboard; four one-liners; and five pieces drawn without a single run of spaces. Each character was looked up in the Unicode Character Database, version 18.0.0: names and categories in https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt, width classes in https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/EastAsianWidth.txt, the Emoji property in https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-data.txt, all read on 2026-09-19. Keyboard characters only means the 95 printable ASCII characters, U+0020 to U+007E. Squash-proof means no line starts with a space and no two spaces touch. The comment box badge means at most 8 lines and 30 columns: a rule of thumb of this site, not a promise about any app. Licence: own work