touring car vs automobile

touring car and automobile both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
touring car	Yes	No	No	No
automobile	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, automobile is a hypernym of touring car; that is, automobile is a word with a broader meaning than touring car:

touring car: large open car seating four with folding top
automobile: a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine

Other hypernyms of touring car include auto, car, machine, motorcar.

touring car (noun)	automobile (noun)
large open car seating four with folding top	a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine

touring car (verb)	automobile (verb)
	travel in an automobile