This is my warning. I have an opinion that I know many of you think is wrong, but it is my opinion and I've had about all I can stand without saying something.

This is the world and how I see it.

Hatchbacks

Coupes Not Berkeleying Hatchbacks

If after looking at these pictures you still can not make the distinction between the blatant difference in body type you may need to see an optometrist because your berkeleying blind. Call them liftbacks, call them whatever the berkeley you want but they most certainly are not hatchbacks.

There I said it, I feel so much better now.

If it looks like a pickle, and feels like a pickle, it's probably a pickle.

Definition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatchback

And you gotta believe wikipedia cause it is on the internet so it has to be true...

bravenrace wrote: If it looks like a pickle, and feels like a pickle, it's probably a pickle.

You should probably stop feeling pickles.

I would call most of the second list "Fastbacks".

In any case, if when you open the trunk, you also open the window, I tend to call it a hatch.

In reply to octavious:

I don't gotta believe nothing man...nothing at all!

bravenrace wrote: If it looks like a pickle, and feels like a pickle, it's probably a pickle.

Gotta agree.

bravenrace wrote: If it looks like a pickle, and feels like a pickle, it's probably a pickle.

Fear the Pickle! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x4_-as0rv4&list=RD2x4_-as0rv4#t=37

Oh my! All those posts of hatchbacks and no FX16? What's with that? I am truly disappointed.

mtn wrote: I would call most of the second list "Fastbacks". In any case, if when you open the trunk, you also open the window, I tend to call it a hatch.

^THIS^

My s13 is a fastback, and the one with a trunk is a coupe. If my fastback is a coupe (as per you), then what is the model with a trunk? I've also heard the mustangs referred to as fastbacks and coupes. What was the point of this?

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:

bravenrace wrote: If it looks like a pickle, and feels like a pickle, it's probably a pickle.

Fear the Pickle! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x4_-as0rv4&list=RD2x4_-as0rv4#t=37

This is ripe for smack talk. Biting my tongue!

Chevy called their Nova a Hatchback. Perhaps they should've contacted Nicksta43 first.

Zoom in on the Nova and read what the badge on the c-pillar says.

Edit: beat by Joe

why is this in off topic?

Okay, then what differentiates these two completely different body types?

So you get cheesed off at someone calling a not-hatchback a hatchback but in the process call a bunch of not-coupes coupes? Sounds like you need to rail against yourself in another post.

Fueled by Caffeine wrote: why is this in off topic?

Is it on topic?

Because I knew going into it this will end very badly.

dculberson wrote: So you get cheesed off at someone calling a not-hatchback a hatchback but in the process call a bunch of not-coupes coupes? Sounds like you need to rail against yourself in another post.

How is it not a coupe????

Joe Gearin wrote: Chevy called their Nova a Hatchback. Perhaps they should've contacted Nicksta43 first.

Damn right they should have!

You need to go back to riding your dinosaur and quit arguing the merits of the hatchback/fastback nonsense.

Also, to berkeley with you even more, anything more than 2 doors + hatch is a berkeleying WAGON.

nicksta43 wrote: Okay, then what differentiates these two completely different body types?

That's the thing, they aren't completely different. They are actually quite similar. For the most part, only the angle of the hatch differentiates them as far as body style.

I've never been around so many wrong people all at once. It's kinda surreal.

yamaha wrote: You need to go back to riding your dinosaur and quit arguing the merits of the hatchback/fastback nonsense. Also, to berkeley with you even more, anything more than 2 doors + hatch is a berkeleying WAGON.

Dude, my LEAF is a wagon?

And, just to add fuel to the fire: No matter what the marketing department chooses to call it, ceci n'est-ce pas un coupe :

bravenrace wrote:

nicksta43 wrote: Okay, then what differentiates these two completely different body types?

That's the thing, they aren't completely different. They are actually quite similar. For the most part, only the angle of the hatch differentiates them as far as body style.

Really!?!?! Not even close to being similar.