Coupe
sana khan Coupe can also be spelled coupé (and pronounced “koo-PAY”). Distinct from the two-door sedan, a coupe only has one row of seats, though in some marketing the term applies to a car with a tight-spaced rear seat.
sana khan Coupé is the part participle of the French verb couper, meaning “to cut or strike.” The original coupé—a closed horse-drawn carriage—was also designed for two people, but there is no relationship between coupé and couple.
Station wagon
sana khan The motor vehicle referred to as a sedan is so called because it has a front and rear seat. It borrows its name from a much different vehicle of a much different era: the sedan chair, a portable chair that is designed to carry one person and that is carried on poles by two people.
sana khan The origin of sedan is not known, but sedan chairs were used in London, Edinburgh, and other British cities in the 17th and 18th centuries. Although commonly associated with the wealthy, they could also be hired out for a fare, like taxis.
sana khan Coupe can also be spelled coupé (and pronounced “koo-PAY”). Distinct from the two-door sedan, a coupe only has one row of seats, though in some marketing the term applies to a car with a tight-spaced rear seat.
sana khan Coupé is the part participle of the French verb couper, meaning “to cut or strike.” The original coupé—a closed horse-drawn carriage—was also designed for two people, but there is no relationship between coupé and couple.
sana khan In Great Britain, what we call a station wagon is known as an estate car or estate wagon. In the 19th-century, the term station wagon applied to a type of horse-drawn carriage used for transporting passengers to or from a train station.
sana khan This terminology carried over to refer to the car with an open storage area behind the rear seat (now sometimes fondly called the wayback). The design of the car made it suitable for traveling long distances, since the wayback could be used to store the luggage. Early designs of the station wagon featured a body made of wood (recall the lyrics of the song “Surf City” by Jan and Dean: “I’ve got a ’30 Ford wagon and I call it a woody”), and that design was echoed in the faux paneling typical of station wagons of the Clark Griswold variety.
