Comments on: Coupe vs. Sedan – What’s the Difference?

By: Rod

Rod — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:41:57 +0000

With all due respect to your grandfather, consider the 1932 Ford 5 window Coupe.

By: Fred Banionis

Fred Banionis — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:25:00 +0000

So, is the Kia Forte Koup actually a Sport 2 door sedan?

By: Har1748

Har1748 — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 00:05:00 +0000

Take the air cooled VW Beetle. It’s only has two doors but its’s called a sedan. I always thought that it was the post between the front and rear side windows that made it a coupe or a sedan.

By: Ifixusytem

Ifixusytem — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:42:00 +0000

I have a 2 door Toyota Echo……… 2+2 configuration.
Now I know is a coupe……oh well……

By: Chris Burdick

Chris Burdick — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:25:00 +0000

Anybody calling that a sedan is crazy!

By: LC

LC — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:11:54 +0000

I have a 88 mustang, two doors. I consider it a coupe. Some people call it a sedan. It does have four seats, but the one's in the back are little. It's crazy.

By: BBmax50

BBmax50 — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 13:44:47 +0000

I am a coupe snob, but I do not consider the RX-8 a sedan. For one thing, when you look at it (and that IS the bottomline for me with a car what does it LOOK LIKE), you see a coupe. PERIOD. Most people do not know that the back doors even exist until you open them. I do not have one (I have a G37x coupe), but I was considering one and if I had it, I would be calling it a coupe. I know somone who has one and the backseats are almost unusable (which to me is a typcial sign of a coupe).

By: Inam-ul-Haq

Inam-ul-Haq — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 01:56:24 +0000

Very well defined by Chris Burdick ! short, precise & to the point. Agreed !!!

By: Fabian Swinger

Fabian Swinger — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 02:35:47 +0000

I think the Mazda RX 8 is indeed a 4 door coupe, it even has coupe shape.

And there were some 3 doors Saturn coupes, with a rear door in only one of the sides….They really had also coupe shape.

But some streamlined SEDANS or even hatchbacks that want to be called coupes, like the Mercedes CLS, Porsche Panamera and even VW Passat CC, they are just 4 door sedans with strealined roof

Of those streamlined sedan or hatchback 4 door vehicles, one of the most original was the Citroen C 6

By: Mac

Mac — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:55:51 +0000

My grandfather always told me a sedan could be 4-door or 2-door as long as there was a rigid B-pillar. While a Coupe could also be 4 or 2 door as long as it was built sans B-pillar.

By: osman

osman — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:42:55 +0000

I agree that difference is not 2 or 4 doors. it is all mention is the marketing strategy.

By: Navi

Navi — Tue, 04 May 2010 20:30:16 +0000

I completely agree that:

2 doors = Coupe

4 doors = Sedan

I think some companies may have done is as a Marketing Strategy, and it is very clever, it may be confusing and unnecessary, but so are many other things, due to marketing. It is useless, but it's clever.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:30:47 +0000

I was reading an old article from the 80's saying that my '84 BMW 325e was a sedan. It's got two doors and I barely fit in it! I always thought that sedan = 4 doors and all that described in the article. Thanks for clearing it all up, although I'm not sure I believe whoever described my tiny bimmer as sedan.

By: rob s

rob s — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:35:24 +0000

That isn't the case Matt. Honda's Civic and Accord Coupes have full frames. Mercedes CLS has 4 doors that are all frameless. Whether a car's door windows have frames can go either way on both types, coupes and sedans. For you I can understand the correlation but further research would point out a hundred contradictions.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:31:20 +0000

I've always understood the definition as: a coupe is any car where the doors do not contain the window in a frame.

I've by no means gone and done a lot of research, but this definition seems to hold true for the cars listed throughout this article, and in my experience in general. My VW CC is called "coupe." I would almost guarantee it has more than 33 cubic feet of rear interior volume. But the windows are not framed. RX-8 and CLS fit this definition as well.