Boro

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I know its a 2+2 and i know from the outside its looks like it has two doors but in reality it has rear doors too.

Does this mean its a coupe or not a coupe, that is the question.

dij

Its a 4 door coupe

scoobycar60

Its a 4 door saloon!



4 doors is not Coupe

unless the rear doors are not doors but wings or something..

carl

But surely as it's "pillarless" (i.e. if you wind down front and rear windows there's no B pillar at all) it's a coupé?

NotoriousREV

no, you can have pillarless saloon (a lot of yank tanks in the 60's were like this)

MarkWRX

Well it just won "Coupe of the year" with Top Gear and What car, so they must thin so

dpb

Probably not with suicide doors though

NotoriousREV

Pillarless, suicide doored Cadillacs were available from the mid-50's.

There's nothing new under the sun

dij

talizman

iTrader: (1)

Did you miss the smilie matey?

notsofurious

who gives a **** what it is? Its still a nice looking car. Anyway, i thought coupe meant a car with a slanty roof line and a rear hatch instead of a boot?

NotoriousREV

nope, there are many coupes with no hatch

Dictionary definition:

cou·pé
n.
A closed four-wheel carriage with two seats inside and one outside.
also coupe (kp) A closed two-door automobile

jasey

Exactly NotoriousRev - Where the outside seat if it's a Coupe (Or the horses ?)

It's a fighter plane

Wankle

apolpogies to the younger set you wont have a clue what I'm going on about (neither will most of the oldies)

Skittles

So my first car, a Nissan Micra, was a coupe according to your definition?

NotoriousREV

It's not "my" definition, it's that of Websters dictionary

By "my" definition, no a Micra would not be a coupe, however an RX8 would. I would define a coupe as 2 or 2+2 seating with a sloping roof with either a hatch or boot

scoobycar60

A coupé (to give it its correctly accented spelling) is a two or four-seater car with a fixed roof, a sloping back, and two doors. The style is generally used for sportier models in a manufacturer's range.

A coupe is actually

a dish of fruit and ice-cream served in a goblet-shaped glass bowl.

On second thoughts I think I prefer the sound of the second definition.

CrisPDuk

I seem to remember Rover doing a very nice 4 door coupe in the 60's, basically a P5 with a 3" roof chop IIRC.

The term coupe (fr: cut) was originally used by auto stylists to descibe the lowering of the roof on a standard model to give a sleeker looking version, i.e: a chop, as yank hotrodders would call it. The door quantity is irrelevant, what makes a coupe is a roof low enough to damage any hairstyle other than a skinhead, & rear legroom minimal enough to qualify as a holiday charter jet Oh yeah, and a ride hard enough to get you on first name terms with a good dentist & chiropractor

Abdabz

Ah yes - I remember the days of the RX7 - now there was a coupe.

But now we have the RX8 - a coupe or a disfigured bus? Well there is the question...Personally I think its a mutant mazda 6 hatchback...Ewww

Wouldnt touch one with yours

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