A vehicle I and she had is no longer here (8)
I believe the answer is:
vanished
'no longer here' is the definition.
The definition and answer are not the same part of speech.
'a vehicle i and she had' is the wordplay.
'a vehicle' becomes 'van' (van is a kind of vehicle).
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'she had' becomes 'she'd'.
'van'+'i'+'shed'='VANISHED'
'is' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for vanished that I've seen before include "disappeared from sight" , "gone" , "Disappeared without trace" , "disappeared from view" .)