I keep seeing adverts for 4-door coupés - and it bugs me.
A coupé to me is 2 doors, and a saloon style boot.
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I keep seeing adverts for 4-door coupés - and it bugs me.
A coupé to me is 2 doors, and a saloon style boot.
Coupe is french for "cut off" according to a show I saw a decade ago. I think it was Top Gear.
2 door, boot (not hatch) and sloping back window.
simples...
So basically an S14 not S13?
I am thinking more not a Jaguar XF and not a Citroen DS4... :confused:
I always consider a coupe as a car with no window surround on the doors..
Oh god, Docwra, Si and I had an argument about this a few years ago.
I can't remember if we ever came to a conclusion.
i used to have a calibra which i considered to be a coupe ( not a very good one .... but a coupe none the less ) even though it had a hatchback.
It's what you call a car who's owner couldn't justify buying a proper sports car, but needed a similar level of practicality of a saloon or estate but without the "family" image :D
I saw a DS4 on the way home tonight....a coupé it definitely is not :smash:
I take it the new Scirrocco isnt a coupe as they call it then LOL
Coupe is just an approximate shape, nothing really to do with the liftgate or decklid.
You lost me at "liftgate" and "decklid".....:D
In my mind it's probably just the roof line that would generally distinguish a coupe from a saloon.
Saloon roof lines continue straight back from the b pillar, a coupe's starts to slope down almost immediately after the b pillar.
Hatch / boot is irrelevant IMO. I'd consider coupe to be a 2 door design on the whole but I guess some 4 doors could qualify.
Edit: wiki says this http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupé
I suppose so. RX8 for example? Aston Rapide too.