Combi coupé

A combi coupe is a closed car with a fixed roof, which is supported by three pairs of vehicle column. It is a fastback coupe with a large tailgate. Thus, the combi coupe a hybrid of the coupe and the Kombi dar.

Term development

The term was increasingly in the 1970s, especially from Japan as coupes with rear hatch came. But he is not nearly as common as the related station wagon. Also, the Jaguar E-Type Coupe previously manufactured can be considered as a combi coupé.

When combined coupe, the tailgate in the German language as one of the station wagon and the hatchback as an additional door, so that one speaks of the three-door vehicles.

In contrast to the Shooting Brake hatchback, in which the use is a sporty station wagon in the foreground, the combi coupé retains its predominantly coupe character.

Combi Coupé

Among the pioneers of the liftback body - form include Lancia and Saab, both of which presented their first Liftback variants in 1974. When Lancia Beta HPE, it was at the derived from the coupe variant. It represented an extended version of the beta, which was identical to the coupe to the B-pillar. The HPE remained from spring 1975 to the end of the beta - series in autumn 1984 in the program. A direct successor to this body line there was not more of Lancia. The size technically comparable Lancia Prisma never came as a combi on the market and the shunting Lancia Thema was a class about it therefore as a classic combination. It was the Lancia Delta III can design technically refer back to the ancestor Beta HPE.

Saab went into this niche with a variant of the Saab 99, the manufacturer uses the term Combi Coupé coined in order to distinguish them from the previously imported sedan and the coupe derived. The label should bring the claim of the vehicle for expression to link the practical advantages of a station wagon with the appeal of a coupé. In the U.S. market, one called the Combi Coupe, however, as " Wagon Back". The body shape handle Saab to the 21st century in numerous other models on, but left the term Combi coupé after a few years fall and called the five-door from now on only as a hatchback and three-door coupé, but both constructions at the same Liftback platform.

Shortly after Lancia and Saab came a further, smaller liftback body on the market, who came back from Italy. Fiat donated the since the fall of 1972 -built Fiat 128 Sport Coupe, which was made ​​up to that point with a notchback and a small opening, with a revision in the spring of 1975 with a large tailgate, which the now " 3p " (from " tre porti ", in Germany it was called Berlinetta ) called subcompact coupe knighted for Liftback. The 128 Berlinetta received no direct successor in the Italian program after its end in the summer of 1978.

In English

In English-speaking countries is called a combi coupe like a station wagon than hatchback or even just as a hatch ( hatch ( en. ) = flap ( dt ) ).