Car body styles Car body styles A 2-door sedan is a 2-door car that is somewhere between a coupe and a 4-door sedan. This kind of vehicle had more legroom in the backseat that a coupe would generally have. Sedans with 2 doors are rather rare nowadays. ...more on Wikipedia about "2-door sedan"
Bangle-butt is a derogatory term for the current rear-end styling paradigm among high-end automobiles. The name comes from controversial designer Chris Bangle. Although all of Bangle's designs have been the subject of heated debate, no element has been more discussed and copied than his two-level rear end styling. It features separate rear fenders with a "bustle-back" trunk (boot) lid. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bangle-butt"
After World War 2, beach buggy was a colloquial name for vehicles used on ocean surf fishing expeditions on the East Coast of America. ...more on Wikipedia about "Beach buggy"
Invented by Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, a brougham was a four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage of the 1800s. It had a low body with a box seat in front for the driver. In the rear was seating for two or four with two doors. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brougham (carriage)"
A cabrio coach or semi-convertible is a type of car that has a retractable textile roof. It is used on several older cars such as the Saab 92, Citroën 2CV, Fiat 500 and the Fuldamobil, but some modern cars also have it. It is an inexpensive alternative to a full convertible, especially on cars with unibody designs since little or no redesign of the body is necessary. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cabrio coach"
A cabriolet was a light, two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with a folding 'calash' top, seating two persons behind the driver's box. Developed in France in the early 19th century, the vehicle quickly replaced the heavier hackney carriage as the vehicle for hire of choice in Paris and London. The modern term ( taxi) cab comes from "cabriolet" via " Hansom cab". ...more on Wikipedia about "Cabriolet"
Cars can come in a large variety of different body styles. Some are still in production, while others are of historical interest only. These styles are largely (though not completely) independent of a car's classification in terms of price, size and intended broad market; the same car model might be available in multiple body styles. ...more on Wikipedia about "Car body style" www.shortopedia.com - forget the rest. Car_body_styles
Combi coupé is a car body style introduced by Saab. It is essentially a hatchback that is more of a saloon ( sedan) than an estate car ( station wagon) or typical hatchback. The bodystyle was first introduced in the 1974 Saab 99, but Saab also discussed making it available for the Saab 96 and went so far as to create the prototype Saab 98. ...more on Wikipedia about "Combi coupé"
A convertible is a car body style with a folding or retracting roof. The collapsible roof section is typically made from flexible canvas or vinyl, although plastic, aluminium and steel have occasionally been used in elaborate folding designs. ...more on Wikipedia about "Convertible"
A coupé (from the French for "cut") or coupe is a car body style with a close-coupled interior offering either two seats or 2+2 seating (space for two passengers up front and for two occasional passengers in the rear). Through the 1950s convertible models were sometimes called convertible coupés, but since the 1960s the term "coupé" has generally been applied exclusively to fixed-roof models. Coupés generally, but not necessarily, have two doors, although automobile makers have offered four-door coupés and three- and five-door hatchback coupés, as well. ...more on Wikipedia about "Coupé"
The coupé convertible (in French coupé cabriolet) or retractable hardtop (more common US usage) is an evolution of car body style that involves the flexibility of a mobile roof (from the convertible) and of the rigid roof of a coupé. In the first years of the 2000s, car manufacturers started building articulated retractable rigid roofs allowing the automobiles using this configuration to go seamlessly from convertible to coupé and back. ...more on Wikipedia about "Coupé convertible"
A coupe roadster is a convertible automobile equipped with a removable hardtop. ...more on Wikipedia about "Coupe roadster"
A dune buggy is a recreational vehicle having big wheels and tires designed for use on sand dunes or beaches, especially a light vehicle with a modified engine mounted on an open chassis. Also called beach buggy or a sand rail. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dune buggy"
Fastback is a form of automobile body characterised by a smoothly sloped back. Fastbacks are often two-seater hatchback coupés. The combi coupé looks somewhat like a fastback, but has a rear door. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fastback"
In the United Kingdom, a hackney carriage is a taxicab licensed by the Public Carriage Office in the London (for the area within the M25 motorway) or by the local authority ( shire district councils or authorities) in other parts of England and Wales, Scottish Executive in Scotland, and the Department of the Environment in Northern Ireland. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hackney carriage"
A hardtop is a term for a rigid, rather than canvas, automobile roof. It has been used in several contexts: detachable hardtops, retractable hardtop roofs, and the so-called convertible hardtop body style. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hardtop"
A hatchback is a type of automobile design, consisting of a passenger cabin which includes an integrated cargo space, accessed from behind by a hatch or flip-up window. Hatchbacks are also often called three-doors (two entry doors and the hatch) or five-doors (four entry doors and the hatch) cars. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hatchback"
A hearse is a funeral vehicle, a conveyance for the coffin from e.g. a church to a cemetery, a similar burial site, or a crematorium. In the funeral trade, they are often called funeral coaches. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hearse"
A Kammback is a car body style influenced by the research of the German aerodynamicist Wunibald Kamm in the 1930s. Kamm showed that a better drag-reducing tail end design for a car is one that tapers until its cross-sectional area is approximately 50% of the car's maximum cross-section. At that point, the tail should cut off abruptly. Prior to this, a teardrop shape that tapered smoothly to a point was considered optimal. Kamm showed that an abbreviated teardrop actually worked better; the air still flowed as if the entire teardrop were still there, but without the surface drag of the long point. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kammback"
A landau is a coachbuilding term for a type of carriage; the term has also been carried over into the automobile field, where it is generally used to mean a simulated convertible. ...more on Wikipedia about "Landau (car)"
:The word Minivan was also used in Britain, especially in the 1960s and 1970s, to refer to the van version of the Mini — a very small two seater van. ...more on Wikipedia about "Minivan"
Notchback is a form of automobile body that is characterized by a sharp vertical drop-off from roof to trunk, as opposed to hatchback or fastback. The notchback is usually a synonym for sedan, although many coupé cars are notchbacks as well. ...more on Wikipedia about "Notchback"
A panel van (or panelvan) is a form of van, usually one based on a family car chassis. They were especially popular with younger car buyers in Australia during the 1970s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Panel van"
A Phaeton is a car body style in which the passengers sit in one to three rows of open seats. Early Phaetons had a high-mounted drivers seat at the rear, as in a Hansom. ...more on Wikipedia about "Phaeton body"
A "Retractable Hardtop" is a movable top for a convertible It is made of plastic or metal. With this top, sometimes with integrated glasinserts ( Renault Mégane, Nissan Micra) or a sunroof ( VW Eos) the Cabriolet also could be used as a Coupe. ...more on Wikipedia about "Retractable hardtop" My http://www.shortopedia.com is mine. shortopedia
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