Talk:Coupe

message: The 2004/5 Saturn ION Quad Coupe has two doors and two suicide doors. According to some sites, including some blue book directories, the Quad Coupe is defined as a 4-door coupe; however, according to Princeton University's WordNet 2.0, a coupe is "a car with two doors and front seats and a luggage compartment". What is the precise terminology for this body style? Thanks. Adraeus
:Good point.  Strictly speaking, "coupe" does NOT mean "2-door".  Historically, there have been MANY 2-door sedans and four-door coupes.  The Saturn is a great modern example of the latter.  Most automotive journalists use coupe to mean a car which has very little or no back seat, while a sedan offers full-sized seats in the rear.  I've also seen specific volume numbers to differentiate the two.  Actually, the best differentiator is in the manufacturer's eyes.  A Cadillac Coupe de Ville is a sedan, strictly speaking, but if Cadillac wants to call it a coupe, who's to tell them otherwise?  We should ammend the description on the page.  Thoughts?  --SFoskett 01:49, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)
::Here's a newer example, the Mercedes-Benz 2006 CLS500 Coupe with a four-door design. The media  has trouble believing that coupes can actually have four-door designs, so they mention "four-door design" once and then persist in incorrectly describing the vehicle as a sedan. Adraeus 20:10, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quad Coupe &mdash; 4-door coupe? 

message: Can we get a better example photo? I mean, really, there's not much cool about a Buick Rivera--coupe or not.
Let's have a Rover P5B Coupé. The most evil looking four door coupe ever..
:In your opinion. The Riviera pic is fine where it is. --ApolloBoy 02:24, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A BUICK???!!! 

message: Why is this article not at Coupe? Is this word not spelled without the accent more often than with, in English at least?? 74.75.15.247 (talk) 07:41, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It's only spelled coupe in America because we like to change words from their orignial form. Rosskey711 (talk) 15:42, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: In other words, yes, it's more common without an accent and as a single syllable, but there's an  issue (assuming the article was created as coupé). — LlywelynII 11:00, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

text: It was at coupe. User:Chameleon moved it without consensus and in violation of  and it should eventually be moved back. That said, coupé isn't wrong: it's just British. — LlywelynII 11:12, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Spelling

message: Coupé does come from couper in French, but that misses the point.  Coupé is the past participle of couper so that means it's the past tense of cut, but in English cut is the past participle of cut.  I think it should be changed to (from the past participle of the French verb couper).  I think that would be clearer and it still isn't that wordy. Rosskey711 (talk) 15:52, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology 

message: The picture in the article titled Sunbeam Alpine is actually a Sunbeam Rapier, my uncle used to have one.  The Sunbeam Alpine was a low slung two door sports car.Rngrng1 (talk) 14:56, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sunbeam Rapier 

message: Hi, here is the explanation behind the tags I added:
Globalize: I believe the (technical and common usage) definitions vary by country. The article relies heavily on American definitions, and implies that these are accepted worldwide.</br>
Four-door coupes: Most people understand that a coupe has 2 doors and a sedan has 4 doors. If Mercedes want to call their CLS a "coupe" that is their choice, however I believe the article should reflect the commonly accepted definition.</br>
Classic coupes: In my opinion, the claim that this is a commonly accepted term for 2-door coupes needs to be supported by WP:verifiable references. Cheers, 1292simon (talk) 10:45, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: To explain why the word "claimed is used in the intro. If a company produced a blue coloured gizmo and said "it is red", then it could be said that they are "claiming it is red". Since coupe is defined as having 2 doors, I believe use of the word "claimed" is justified. PS Sorry for the blog link, I've fixed this now. 1292simon (talk) 23:11, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  October 2012 

message: I removed the portion of the entry which falsely claimed that the SAE defined coupe by interior volume. In fact, SAE J1100 only mentions station wagons and hatchbacks as passenger car variants. The word "coupe" is not mentioned at all in the paper, nor is the claimed "33 sqft".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.153.240.61 (talk) 20:38, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  SAE vs. ISO naming convention 

message: One of the most ridiculous misapplications of the term of coupe to a vehicle was done by Audi in the 1980's when they called a three door fastback/hatchback the Coupe. That was the model name, even had COUPE embedded into a giant reflective panel between the tail lights. You can brand HORSE onto a sheep but it's still a sheep. ;-) Coupe has become a marketing term while cars with body styles that actually are coupes have become rare. Bizzybody (talk) 22:51, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: FYI, that wasn't a hatchback... 82.37.157.134 (talk) 18:48, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  Is this the Audi Coupe in question?   Unician ∇  06:02, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Mercedes CLS/CLA, Vauxhall Astra GTC, BMW 6 series GC... The list of 'coupes' goes on. For me a coupe is a two door car with a notchback or fastback rear, but the term was originally used to define types of carriage and, of course, transportation has changed a lost since then, leaving the word pretty much devoid of all meaning. 86.140.240.53 (talk) 08:34, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  1980's Audi Coupe. 

message: Does anyone else find it bewildering that an article whose title is in British English has been tagged "Use American English"? On what basis has it been decided to use American English in this article? Sincerely, SamBlob (talk) 08:24, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: No. The article was started in American English and at coupe and a Brit moved the page without discussion or justification. It should eventually be moved back. — LlywelynII 11:12, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Irony as she is spoke 

message: Could the difference between a coupé and a 2-door sedan be illustrated by the BMW New Class coupé and the BMW 02 Series of the same period? Sincerely, SamBlob (talk) 01:42, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible illustration of coupé vs. 2-door sedan 

message: A car with a rear seating area equal to or greater than twenty six (26) cubic feet. 14:53, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sedan 

message: thumb|left|Rover saloon (not sports saloon) of the same vintage, six side windows
I have never seen this description used except in a "dictionary" possibly as an attempted translation from the English "a close coupled saloon". Close coupled came from carriages which had very little room between the (bench) seats facing each other. Close-coupled saloons (expensive cars) became sports saloons (mid range cars) in the 1930s and 1940s. They had four side windows and not six (and very much less headroom/height and kneeroom at the back). 
A four-door coupé (Rover 3-litre) or four-door hardtop (USA) is the exact mid-century equivalent of close-coupled saloon aka sports saloon. Hope that helps, 05:10, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  A close-coupled sedan 

message: As mentioned above, the article uses and has used American English since its creation and should never have been moved (without discussion) to the British spelling in the first place. It should be restored to coupe, although obviously the British spelling should be mentioned and linked over. — LlywelynII 11:41, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Move

message: Maybe this was a conscious decision, but this article has way too many images. I think people get the point with 8, but 16? If nobody responds in a week I'll likely just take 75% of the images at the latter half and put them into a gallery. Images help, but an article isn't meant to be a photo-shoot. puggo (talk) 22:42, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images 

message: Alt+130. You're welcome. YBSOne (talk) 11:51, 25 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  é 

message: The reason why there's four door coupes and two door sedans, is because the definition was originally something like "a vehicle with a rear seating area less than/exceeding 23 cubic feet".  The sedan would be vehicle with the larger volume, irrespective of door count, and vice-versa 57.135.233.22 (talk) 06:53, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coupe vs Sedan