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Sedan

A car seating four or more with a fixed roof that is full-height up to the rear window. Known in British English as a saloon. Sedans can have 2 or 4-doors. This is the most common body style^{[citation needed]}. In the U.S., this term has been used^[who?] to denote a car with fixed window frames, as opposed to the hardtop style wherein the sash, if any, winds down with the glass.

Chevrolet HHR sedan delivery

Sedan delivery

North American term for a vehicle similar to a wagon but without side windows, similar to a panel truck but with two doors (one on each side), and one or two rear doors . Often shortened to delivery; used alone, "delivery" is presumed to be a sedan delivery. Sedan deliveries are derived from a car platform (rather than truck platform, like a panel van), and usually share front end sheet metal from the same vehicle.

Sport utility vehicle (SUV)

Derivative of a pickup truck or 4-wheel-drive vehicle, but with fully enclosed passenger cabin interior and carlike levels of interior equipment.

Spyder (or Spider)

Similar to a roadster but originally with less weather protection. The term originated from a small two-seat horse cart with a folding sunshade made of four bows.^{[citation needed]} With its black cloth top and exposed sides for air circulation, the top resembled a spider. Nowadays it simply means a convertible sports car.

Shooting-brake

Initially a vehicle used to carry shooting parties with their equipment and game; later used to describe custom-built wagons by high-end coachbuilders, subsequently synonymous with station wagon or estate; and in contemporary usage a three or five-door wagons combining features of a wagon and a coupé.

Station wagon

A variant of a sedan/saloon, (also known as estate or estate car) or with its roof extended rearward over a shared passenger/cargo volume; access at the back via a third or fifth door instead of a trunk lid; flexible configurations to vary passenger or cargo volume; and two or three rows of seating — in a two-box design with a A, B & C-pillar, as well as a D pillar.

Surrey top

Similar to the Porsche Targa top, the surrey top was developed by Triumph in 1962 for the TR4.

T-top

A derivative of the Targa top, called a T-bar roof, this fixed-roof design has two removable panels and retains a central narrow roof section along the front to back axis of the car (e.g. Toyota MR2 Mark I.)

Targa top

A semi-convertible style used on some sports cars, featuring a fully removable hard top roof panel which leaves the A and B pillars in place on the car body. (e.g. Fiat X1/9). Strictly, the term originated from and is trademarked by Porsche for a derivate of its 911 series, the Porsche 911 Targa, itself named after the famous Targa Florio rally. A related styling motif is the Targa band, sometimes called a wrapover band which is a single piece of chrome or other trim extending over the roof of the vehicle and down the sides to the bottom of the windows. It was probably named because the original Porsche Targa had such a band behind its removable roof panel in the late 60s.

Town car (US)

Essentially the inverse of the landaulet, a historical body style in which the front seats were open and the rear compartment closed, normally with a removable top to cover the front chauffeur's compartment. In Europe the style is also known as Sedanca de Ville, often shortened to Sedanca or de Ville. Note that the modern Lincoln Town Car derives its name, but nothing else, from this style.

Ute

Australian/New Zealand English term for the Coupe Utility body style (see above). Sometimes used informally to refer to any utility vehicle, particularly light trucks such as a pickup truck. In American English, sport-ute is sometimes used^[who?] to refer to an SUV (see above).

A Dodge Sprinter, one particular model of van.

Van

In North America "van" refers to a truck-based commercial vehicle of the wagon style, whether used for passenger or commercial use. Usually a van has no windows at the side rear (panel van), although for passenger use, side windows are included. In other parts of the world, 'van' denotes a passenger-based wagon with no rear side windows.

Wagon delivery

North American term (mainly U.S. and Canada). Similar to a sedan delivery, with four doors. Sometimes shortened to delivery; used alone, "delivery" is presumed to be a sedan delivery. No longer manufactured.

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Notchback

A configuration where the third box of a three-box styling configuration is less pronounced — especially where the rear deck (third box) is short or where the rear window is upright.

People carrier or people mover

European name to describe what is usually referred to in North America as a Minivan.

Phaeton

Pickup truck (or pickup)

A light-duty, open-bed truck.

Pillarless

Usually a prefix to coupé, fastback, or hardtop; completely open at the sides when the windows are down, without a central pillar, e.g. the Sunbeam Rapier fastback coupé.

Ragtop

Originally an open car like a roadster, but with a soft top (cloth top) that can be raised or lowered. Unlike a convertible, it had no roll-up side windows. Now often used as slang for a convertible.

Retractable Hardtop

aka Coupé convertible or Coupé Cabriolet. A type of convertible forgoing a foldable textile roof in favor of a multi-segment rigid roof retracts into the lower bodywork.

Roadster

Originally a two-seat open car with minimal weather protection — without top or side glass — though possibly with optional hard or soft top and side curtains (i.e., without roll-up glass windows). In modern usage, the term means simply a two-seat sports car convertible, a variation of spyder.

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Landaulet

A body style with a convertible top for the back seat, with the front seat either roofed or open.

Leisure activity vehicle

A small van, generally related to a supermini, with a second or even a third seat row, and a large, tall boot.

Liftback

A style of coupé or sedan with a hatchback; used especially when the rear access door is very inclined, opening more upward that outward.

A Lincoln Town Car limousine

Limousine

By definition, a chauffeur-driven car with a (normally glass-windowed) division between the front seats and the rear. In German, the term simply means a sedan.

Minibus

Designed to carry fewer people than a full-size bus, generally up to 16 people in multiple rows of seats. Passenger access in normally via a sliding door on one side of the vehicle. One example of a van with a minibus version available is the Ford Transit.

Microvan

Term for a boxy wagon-type of car that is smaller than a conventional minivan; often without rear sliding door(s). Examples are Citroën Picasso,Renault Scénic, Toyota Yaris Verso or Mercedes-Benz A-Class. In Japan, this term is used for Kei car based vans.

Minivan

North American term for a boxy wagon-type of car usually containing three or four rows of seats, with a capacity of six or more passengers. Often with extra luggage space also. As opposed to the larger van, the minivan was developed primarily as a passenger vehicle, though is more van-like than a station wagon. In Britain, these are generally referred to as people carriers.

MPV 

Multi-purpose vehicle, a large car or small bus designed to be used on and off-road and easily convertible to facilitate loading of goods from facilitating carrying people.

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Estate car

British name for a station wagon.

Fastback

A design where the roof slopes at a smooth angle to the tail of the car, but the rear window does not open as a separate "door".

Hardtop

Originally a removable solid roof on a convertible; later, also a fixed-roof car whose doors have no fixed window frames, which is designed to resemble such a convertible.

Hatchback

Incorporates a shared passenger and cargo volume, with rearmost accessibility via a rear third or fifth door, typically a top-hinged liftgate—and features such as fold-down rear seats to enable flexibility within the shared passenger/cargo volume. As a two-box design, the body style typically includes A, B and C-pillars, and may include a D-pillar.

Hearse

A converted car (often a station wagon), light truck or minivan usually used to transport the dead. Often longer and heavier than the vehicle on which they are usually based. Can sometimes double up as an ambulance in some countries, such as the United States, especially in rural areas.

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Styles in current use

Styles in current use

Buggy

A Buggy is an automobile with wheels that project beyond the vehicle body.

Cabrio coach or Semi-convertible

A form of car roof, where a retractable textile cover amounts to a large sunroof. Fundamental to various older designs such as the Citroën 2CV; sometimes an option on modern cars.

Convertible or cabriolet

A body style with a flexible textile folding roof or rigid retracting roof — of highly variable design detail — that can convert between open-air and enclosed modes.

Coupé

A 2-door, 2- or 4-seat car with a fixed roof. Its doors are often longer than those of an equivalent sedan and the rear passenger area smaller; the roof may also be low. In cases where the rear seats are very small and not intended for regular use it is called a 2+2 (pronounced "two plus two"). Originally, a coupé was required to have only one side window per side, but this consideration has not been used for many years.

Coupé utility (ute)

the coupé utility is a passenger-car derived vehicle with coupé passenger cabin lines and an integral^{[citation needed]} cargo bed.

Crossover (or CUV)

A loose marketing term to describe a vehicle that blends features of a SUV with features of a car — especially forgoing the body on frame construction of the SUV in favor of the car's unibodyor monocoque construction. Crossovers usually borrow drivetrains and other parts from traditional cars in the same manufacturer's line.

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Automobile' body styles

Automobiles' body styles are highly variable. Some body styles remain in production, while others become less common or obsolete. They may or may not correlate to a car's price, size or intended market classification. The same car model might be available in multiple body styles comprising a model range. Some distinctions, as with four-wheel drive vs. SUV models or minivan vs.MPV models, the distinction between body style and classification can be particularly narrow.

While body styles have historical and technical definitions, in common usage such definitions are broad and may be ambiguous. For example, one person may call a 4-passenger sport coupé a "sports car", while another may define a sports car strictly as a two-place vehicle.

Creative cars

The line between being creative and eccentric is very thin and in the already crazy world of cars, what looks weird and what assumes the shape of a cool trend is a very subjective issue. What might seem as a crazy and ugly car to one might be the darling of many others. Yet, there are some cars that would most likely be crazy in the eyes of those who made it and it is those weird ones that we are after. Some of them are viewed as bizarre works or art, while others are just an attempt to make something outlandish. While we will not look into the cars with special paint jobs and blinding chrome work as those would be too many, this are the ‘Funny Fifteen’. So get ready for the out of the ordinary...


This weird looking ball is an art project under Volkswagen and looks more like a vehicle out of the Chinese cartoons.




This is the idea of one guy to promote Universal Studios in Japan during its early days. The idea got shot down in a flash.

Strange cars

Strange cars seem to be made by people who are tired of going to the forms of cars that now. Or is this strange cars as a form of personal expression will be the owner. All the design is far deviated from the standard form of the standard car.


However, with the presence of the cars might be able to enliven this strange colors and shades automotive, or even make people frowned? of any nature is human creations that have their own views and thoughts ....

Read more: The cool Weird Cars | Romantic Lifestyle http://triplexdreams.blogspot.com/2011/02/cool-weird-cars.html#ixzz26G97ncak 

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WEIRD CAR, I'VE EVER SEEN







Two weird cars showed up at McDonalds …