Talk:Fastback

message: Randroide 11:05, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: well

message: I think we need a disamiguation page. FastBack was also a software package for backing up Macintosh computers in the early 90s, by Fifth Generation Systems. I was going to write a stub for it, but I'm not sure how. Connectionfailure 14:30, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done! CZmarlin 01:34, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  I think we need a disamiguation page. 

message: This sentence doesn't quite make sense: "it should be noted that no such distinction is made in the UK, and hence the body style this article discusses is also a hatchback" - tries to edit for gist66.77.124.61 04:36, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: UK

message: I have never seen a Rover(Sterling in US) two door fastback. All the ones I have seen are either four door, three box notchbacks or five door liftbacks. Was this a one off experimental model? 66.77.124.61 21:41, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Rover & Sterling 2 door fastbacks

message: Whether or not it's a true fastback, it was certainly called a fastback. See, for example, this magazine scan, or the well-known TV add with a German man saying to another (in German) that "in England they call it Fastback". 86.143.48.55 (talk) 15:22, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rover 800 

message: L. For's (I'm not sure how to write his surname) version of the French "Gregoire" with "egg-like" rear end, built in 1911 !
Image -  (the upper car)
DL24 (talk) 12:43, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  First fastback ever ? 

message: we need to add semi-fastbacks to the list. The Plymouth Duster is one of them--24.218.164.106 (talk) 14:00, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The term "semi-fastback" is undefined. Many automakers and car reviewers use this term to describe a broad range of designs. For example, there are 58 mentions of this term in the English Wikipedia as of now, as well as almost 72,000 hits found by a Google search of the term: semi fastback car design. I think adding a section on semi-fastbacks would result in an unwieldy long list of models (in some cases only pertaining to a coupe version within a model range of a specific car line) that would probably cause disagreements, likely be incomplete, and provide little useful information to the readers of the article. CZmarlin (talk) 16:22, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  semi-fastbacks 

message: From the article:Depending on the profile, such vehicles may be liftbacks but are unlikely to be hatchbacks.
Both liftback and hatchback go to the same article, with liftback pointing to a subsection of the "Hatchback" article.  So from that standpoint, any liftback is a hatchback.  But the editor who wrote this makes a distinction - anyone know what the distinction is? Or is this an error that should be removed? --Badger151 (talk) 01:06, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Liftbacks and hatchbacks 

message: This article claims that a fastback is a design in which the roofline has a single slope at the back. It then illustrates this with a number of images that do not have a single slope. This starts with the very first image in the article, the Stout Scarab, which has a complex curve more approximating a 3D parabola than a straight line.
Even when one considers the cut-off variations for the kammback, many of the designs do not meet the definition. I seem some halting discussion of changing the definition to include terminology about "continual slope" or variations thereof, but none of those edits have been carried out, and I cannot verify this in basic googling. 
Given the over-use of images already, I think we should just remove any image that does not meet the definition until that date if/when there is a new definition.
Maury Markowitz (talk) 12:18, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Most of the images are not fastbacks by the definition in the article.