BBT 10- Automobile Styles and Designs

Automobile Body Styles
Coupe- are often the sporty variants of saloon cars. They have doors reduced from 4 to 2, but the coupe body style varies from carmaker to carmaker, and now there are even four-door coupes like the Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class. The name ‘coupe' comes from the French verb ‘couper', which means ‘to cut'. An example of a two-door coupe is the Audi A5.                    www.netcarshow.com

  

Convertible- A convertible, or cabriolet, is a body style with a foldable or retractable roof. These cars often have canvas or vinyl roofs, but nowadays these are made of plastic, aluminium or steel. Convertibles are usually two-door cars.                                                          www.edmunds.com

Sedan- also known as a saloon and is a passenger car with a bonnet covering the engine and a separate boot for luggage at the rear. The style of this car is one of the most popular body styles of cars today.  It seats least four people. A sedan design is also known as a ‘three-box' design.                                                                                                     

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Hatchback-  is a car with a sloping back and a hinged rear door that opens upwards. These cars are different than SUVs, MPVs or vans because they are usually much more compact. They can usually have seat four-five people is almost always a tight squeeze. An example of a hatchback is the Maruti Suzuki Swift.                                                                                                            www.kbb.com

Estate- known as station wagons, have a body style almost like the Sedan. However it has an extended rear luggage or cargo area. This vehicle have a two-box design with the passenger compartment extending over where the boot would have been in a saloon. They are usually based on sedans, often share the same frontal design. Estates are not very common in India, but an example is the Skoda Octavia Combi.                                                                            www.which.co.uk











Automobile

• Takes about 3 years and they start off with the sketching phase. 
• The Design is called problem solving because they have a criteria they have to follow so that they can come up with something that is aesthetically pleasing.
• The feasibility stage is taking the sketches that they like and evolving them into something that maintains the theme. 
• Designing an automobile would not interest me because i am not goo in designing things at all.