The phrase "automobile itself" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize the automobile as a distinct entity or to differentiate it from other related concepts or items.
Example: "While many people focus on the features of the automobile itself, it's also important to consider the environmental impact of its production."
Alternatives: "the car itself" or "the vehicle itself".
Although in-line engines are nearly as old as the automobile itself, they still have advantages over V-types -- as BMW enthusiasts are quick to note.
Until the late 1970's, a car's fuel-and-air mixture was regulated by the carburetor, a relatively simple device as old as the automobile itself.
What this means is that no rendering is capable of capturing the essence of a production automobile with the perfection witnessed here unless it was based upon the automobile itself, or at least a clay model.
DONALD ALBRECHT sees New York — a place where driving across town is the answer to the question of how slow can you go, and where drivers don't stop on a dime but park in spaces the size of one — as a motor city whose car culture is central to the identity of the automobile itself.
On the other hand, if the word automobile itself is considered, one can see that it consists of a Greek element, auto 'self,' and a Latin one, mobilis 'movable,' so that the sum of the meanings of the constituent parts of the word suggests a gloss like "self-movable," "self-mover".
Walker sees the automobile itself as affecting far more than roads and the oil industry: "The automobile transformed the face of the American countryside, making the horse redundant and forcing farmers to grow new crops to replace the hay the horses used to eat.
Alas, the offer is for a one-year lease on the car, not the car itself, but still, there is a chance to live large in a $60,000 automobile for 12 months.
Opel has been losing market share to rivals like Volkswagen, but it is also confronted with a steep decline in the German automobile market itself.
But in recent years, with enhanced racing regulations — especially with the outlawing of many driver aids — in order to slow the cars, and with the automobile industry itself making huge gains in mechanical and technological development, there has been relatively little transfer to the road car.
Detroit became the centre of global automobile production itself after Ford Motor Company made automobiles affordable to wider masses.
Unlike ethanol, which is mixed with gasoline, butanol can power automobiles by itself.
