page_title: Hatchback
section_title: India
hierarchical_section_title: Hatchback / History / India
caption_attribution_description: English: Maruti 800 AC parked in garage.
context_page_description: A hatchback is a car with a hatch-type rear door that often opens upwards and often a shared volume for the passenger and cargo areas.
  When the body style of a car is described as a hatchback, typically it refers to a utilitarian small car; however hatchbacks are also used on sports cars, SUVs, and large luxury cars. Compact hatchbacks are very popular, and midsize liftbacks relatively popular, in Europe. Hatchbacks are also popular throughout Asia and North America, and is the most common body type for city cars and economy cars sold in Asia.
  The modern form of the hatchback body style was developed through the 1960s and rose in popularity through the 1970s.
context_section_description: Hatchbacks are the highest selling car body style in India. The Maruti 800 sold over 2.5 million units since its launch in 1983. Since 2004, Maruti 800 has been overtaken by Maruti Alto as the car with highest annual sales. In 2015, Tata Motors launched a hatchback version of the Nano, the least expensive road car in the world.
caption: Maruti 800 hatchback in India
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