A groundcar could be defined as a vehicle that utilizes wheels. Amara Kel, who was a TIE fighter pilot, made a comparison between the sound of a TIE fighter's engines and the combined noises of a furious animal and a groundcar losing traction on damp asphalt.
The groundcar was referenced within the current Star Wars canon inside the short story "Amara Kel's Rules for TIE Pilot Survival (Probably)" from 2020. This story was written by Django Wexler and is part of the collection From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back. As for the Star Wars Legends timeline, the groundcar initially featured in the short story "Hammertong: The Tale of the "Tonnika Sisters"" in 1995. This story, penned by Timothy Zahn, is included in the collection Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina, specifically from the book Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina.