Vehicle given to motor company missing a beetle (6)
I believe the answer is:
scarab
'a beetle' is the definition.
(I know that scarab is a type of dung beetle)
'vehicle given to motor company missing' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'vehicle' could be 'car' (car is a kind of vehicle) and 'car' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'sab' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for scarab that I've seen before include "Sacred beetle of ancient Egypt" , "Holy beetle" , "Sacred beetle of Eygpt" , "Beetle regarded as divine by ancient Egyptians" , "crawler" .)