The phrase "crippled car" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a vehicle that is damaged or unable to function properly.
Example: "After the accident, the once reliable vehicle was now a crippled car, barely able to move."
Alternatives: "damaged car" or "disabled vehicle".
The strikes crippled car plants throughout the country by cutting off their supply of components.
Because of its close links with America's economy, and especially its crippled car industry, Mexico had already slid into a deep and worsening recession.
It was decided, too, that because he had driven his crippled car back to the pits through a side gate, he had not completed the first lap and would anyway be ineligible to restart.
WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats were drafting legislation Sunday for tight government control of the crippled American auto industry, including the possible creation of an oversight board made up of five cabinet secretaries and the head of the Environmental Protection Agency and led by an independent chairman or "car czar".
A crippled womanWatched me from her car.
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Sebastiano, disguised as a crippled beggar and followed by cars of cocktail party guests, settled on the main shopping street of Monza, Italy and promptly collected $15.
When the traffic police knock off for lunch, cars soon become so gridlocked that crippled beggars on hand-propelled skateboards outpace the motorists on whose windows they imploringly tap.
A divorce at the worst time during the current recession, along with outstanding student loans, and previous jobs with failed start-ups left me crippled and feeling less than worthy of a new car.
Cars whoosh by at 60, 70, 80 miles an hour, their headlights briefly flooding the crippled Beetle with a naked glow before their taillights trail off into the darkness.
The crippled subway system?
