automania means an enthusiasm for motor vehicles and motoring. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.
Etymology
From auto + -mania. Attested from the 20th century. Compare slightly earlier automaniac.
noun
- An enthusiasm for motor vehicles and motoring.“There seems to be need of a term to designate these new terrors of our streets, those speed crazed paranoiacs who are now doing so much to bring the automobile into disrepute.[…] Why not adopt the name “automania” for the disease and the automaniac to designate the person afflicted by it?”