We are debating this here - just wondering everyones opinion and reasoning...

 

hatchback, just like the rest of the RX-7s.

Why? because they all have hatches, not a trunk.

 

Huh ?

 

hatchback......just cause' it is. :p

 

Definetly a hatchback. I'd be almost ashamed to call it a trunk since you can't fit much in it in the first place

 

yepp hactchback.

 

HchB

 

Umm... both? Coupe has two doors, hatchback has a hatchback.

 

it isnt a 2 door its got 3?

 

Insurance companies as well as N.A.D.A. classify it as a 2-door coupe. Technically a coupe and hatchback are the same. The only real difference is the fact that a coupe has a deck-lid and a hatchback does not. (Ford Festiva anyone?) And traditionally, a coupe's rear window was more sloped than that of a hatchback.

Joe

 

I call it a two door with no room for anything in the back...

 

If the rear lid includes the rear window, doesn't that make it a hatch back? (Or station wagon?)

 

A closed car with two side doors and less than 33 cubic feet of rear interior volume, according to measurements based on SAE standard J1100. A two-door car is therefore not necessarily a coupe.

http://www.clublexus.com/index.php/a...archive/119/18

That was my reasoning for thinking its a coupe (not that clublexus is gospel) - I dont think we have 33 cubic feet in the passenger compartment

 

hatchback

A hatchback is a type of automobile design, consisting of a passenger cabin which includes an integrated cargo space, accessed from behind by a hatch or flip-up window. Hatchbacks are also often called three-doors (two entry doors and the hatch) or five-doors (four entry doors and the hatch) cars.

Technically speaking, SUVs, station wagons and minivans can also be classified as hatchbacks. However, the term hatchback is typically used in reference to small economy cars. Hatchbacks are also differentiated by having a parcel shelf: a rigid shelf covering the cargo space that is hinged behind the rear seats and lifts with the hatch

 

So is a C5 a hatchback too?

 

a coupe is also defind from the doors. if there is a frame around the window it's accually called a 2 dr sedan, if it's framless, like a mustang, than it's considered a coupe. and it has to have a trunk to be called a sedan, coupe or hard top.

 

A coupe generally refers to a car with a back seat. Therefore, the US version FD is not a coupe, and the Japanese version (with a back seat) is. The US version is a 2 door hatchback

 

most hatbacks have back seat tho.--eclipse, mustange, 240, even escort hatch. hummmmmmm

 

Other way around. A coupe is traditionally a 2-seater. A sedan (saloon) is traditionally a 4-seater.

http://www.car-nection.com/yann/dbas_txt/Sty_apdx.htm

(Not the origin of the term "coupe")

-bill

 

I would say a coupe due to the rear profile

a hatchback has a more vertical rear door (festiva, accent, civic si, protege5, etc) and a coupe has a more slanted rear door (scion tc, corvette, 2 door prelude and accord, etc.)

now a real trick one, what's the RX-8?

 

Man, everyone always does this....a HATCH is a small car like the civic, i mean come on now, you're bringing down the value of RX-7s here.....for a SPORTS car, an RX-7 is a FAST BACK, the rear looks nothing like a hatch and the top of the car surely does not form a flat surface in the rear of the car...

and i would like to say that RX-7s are Fast Backs.....because the rear windshield opens up with the trunk.

Because coupes are usually only used for more than 2 passanger two door cars such as the civic, nissan skyline, silvia, and all that, where they have a trunk that doesn't open up with the rear windshield.

i don't mean to be cocky, please forgive me if i do....i just don't wish peeps referring the RX-7s as something worth lower than they are.

mustangs are coupes, and eclipse....more like a coupe (regardless to it's 4WD, because its basic platform is FF....in that case, i forgot to say that fast backs are usually FRs.

 

I think that suits the car best

 

A little off topic, but no room in back? My girlfriend and I drove down to SS7 last year, we had two suitcases, a couple of backpacks, cameras, camcorder, extra oil (just in case)...basically enough crap to vacation for a couple of weeks and let me tell you, she doesn't travel light (does any woman?). We left SS7 with some souvenirs (posters, etc.) AND we stopped at the outlet mall south of Portland on the way back 'cause she wanted to stuff some more crap in my poor little car.

I should have taken a picture before we unloaded everything. The FD's crap-carrying capacity has always been underrated.

 

In general, hatchback is something like those of 323, GLC, I think.

 

This is what i call i hatchback
Is it a rx-7? no, its a honda civic.... i think the seven is more like an coupe