What’s Up With Car Body Names?
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Modified pick-up trucks modified & weaponized into technicals, such as Toyota brand ones🎉
Can you cut the fluff in the next videos ? I always thought of you as a get-to-the-point type of CZcamsr, but this video is a lot of rambling.
Origin of shoe type names.
@@cubonefan3He wants to fill the video to 10 min, which when you understand CZcams makes sense.
Considering that this part of the world is much in the news these days...why do a lot of city and town names in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus end in "-sk"? Consider: Minsk, Pinsk, Donetsk, Irkutsk, Vitebsk...and I could keep going for a hell of a long time, there are that many...
Ah yes, the Sudan - there was a big fight between auto manufacturers a few years ago that resulted in a new type of car, the South Sudan.
“I guess you could say two Coupes make a Sedan” - Sam O’Nella
Are you sure it's called a Sudan? I was thinking Bahrain.
Years ago I was a driving instructor. I had a pupil who was, shall we say, not the sharpest tool in the box. One day he told me that he'd bought a Vauxhall Chevette. I asked him which variant and he said it was a hunchback.
Aren't they a french model
😂 Good ones, both of you!
Surprised you didn't mention the Station Wagon/Estate Car.
THIS
I waited that too. They're probably the most common vehicle here in Finland.
There's saying that you're fully settled down adult when you have kid, a dog, and station wagon (most likely Volvo).
Interestingly, car type has probably unique name in finnish: Farmari-auto (farmer car) which seems kind of opposite from estate, or station wagon, relating it to more of a people's car, rather than upper mid-class.
I have a joke for everyone. Why do chicken coops only have two doors? Because if they had four doors they would be chicken Sudans.
I had a saloon but it turned into a convertible.... The bridge was rather low 😅
I'm reminded of this classic joke- Q: Why do chicken coupes only have two doors? A: Because if they had four doors they'd be called "chicken sedans." 😄
Fyi, the horsedrawn carriage which required only one horse and two wheels that was shown in this video is also known as a "hansom."
Not to be confused with an ugly.
@@CAMacKenzie lol, right. But since a "hansom" is devoid of a letter ("d" specifically) the alternative would perhaps be to add a letter, i.e., spell it, "ughly."
@@skyden24195 Ya, I know. Hansom was from archetect and sometime carriage designer Joseph Hansom.
@@CAMacKenzie cool, learn something new every day.
Your description of a Coupe was actually a description of a GT (ie Grand Touring). A Coupe is really nothing more than a Sedan cut down to two doors instead of 4.
I was waiting for him to say this.
There used to be (in the '50s and '60s) 2 door sedans. Lots of room like a 4 door, but without separate doors for the back seats. Also 3 door station wagons. My parents had 2 of those, a 1954 Ford and a 1957 Ford. Also, I had a 1980 International Scout, which was a truck-based 3 door SUV/station wagon, which was quite a bit later. 3 door SUVs survived longer than regular 3 door wagons.
@CAMacKenzxie This.
Two door Corolla or Datsun 140 from 80's is not Coupe.
However, GT cars are essentially heavier, bigger Coupes, with more emphasis on comfort and luxury, than sporty, lightweight feel of real Coupes.
The link between the convertible and the cabriolet is that the earliest versions of the cabriolet had a fold down hood.
Yes you didn't mention the station wagon. Kind of wonder what the difference between a station wagon and a SUV😅
Stationwagon originates from being a taxi, before motor vehicles: literally the [horse-drawn] wagon that takes you to the station. It's an 'estate' in England.
@@dcarbs2979 I think an SUV is just a 5 door vehivle that can be taken off road.....but most models are "too pretty" to be taken off road. One of my favorite cars (that I've actually owned) was a cross between a minivan and an SUV. Easier to get in than most SUVs, but big enough to haul more than 4-5 people. It was classified as a crossover. I drove the crap out of that thing!
An SUV is built on a truck body, and is essentially a pickup with the bed replaced with more seating.
A station wagon is built on a car body. A station wagon is basically a sedan/saloon with a hatchback instead of a trunk/boot.
The Hatchback of Notre Dame would be a great title for the next Cars movie
SUV is so common in the states that it is; no surprise, people don't know what the acronym means .
Sedan*
He's referring to the Libyan Rocker Car quadaffi made
As a native Minnesotan, I never entertained the idea of a convertible, not even as a child.
"Coupé" and "couper" are both pronounced "koo-pay" - nothing to do with a chicken coop! (But yes, in allcaps you can spell it without the accent.)
As a fellow non-petrolhead I feel it'd be more suited to a convertible, with the idea of a car having a "cut off" roof.
I think SUVs are known as "Yutes" in Australia. 🙃
Utes are cars with a pick-up cargo bed.
Ute is short for "utility truck".
SUVs are known as Stupid Ugly Vehicles.
I always think oh Utes with the front half of a sedan and the back of a pickup @@coolmancool
SUVs and utes are two completely separate vehicle types.
"Ute" comes from "coupe utility". A very standard car-like cabin with a cargo bed (originally) like a truck, replacing the back seats and boot/trunk. A car to "go to church on Sunday and the market on Monday".
The most classic example is the aptly named "Holden Ute", based on the Holden Commodore sedan. Ford also had one based on the Falcon sedan. Both the Commodore and Falcon also came in station wagons/estates.
These days utes are made in 'dual cab' configurations having room for front and rear passengers. Some of these are even made into SUV configurations. Toyota Hilux and Fortuner, Toyota Tacoma and 4Runner, Ford Ranger and Everest, Mitsubishi Triton and Pajero Sport, Chevrolet/Holden Colorado and Colorado7/Trailblazer to name a few.
Thanks for the explanations of those car body types, Patrick, especially the sedan as I've long - evidently mistakenly - thought that it must be something to do with the French settlement of Sedan, on the basis that a limousine is evidently from that other French place-name, Limousin. Some years ago I learned a French term based on the capital of the region of Limousin, Limoges, referring to whenever a high-ranking official is sacked, that being «limogé», ie., being driven away for one last time in their limousine.
Are you no longer doing animations? I find them very charming and gives the channel a lot of character. I’m also not sure about the cold opens, they feel a bit jarring every time for some reason
Monday uploads haven't been animated for yonks. These ones with Patrick on cam are equally valid as NameExplain vids.
@@FoggyD ah my mistake, I’m out of the loop and didn’t realize the release pattern. Thanks!
I'm currently driving a 4 doors pick-up truck (Toyota Hilux), the type of car I dreamed of since I was a teen and was finally able to get in my early 40s. It's not fast or luxurious but it's powerful, spacious, sturdy and versatile, able to carry my entire family and a good amount of cargo at the same time and drive pretty much anywhere from a city center to the most remote off-road wilderness.
Also worth noting that the Commonwealth also has different terms from North America for the storage space and the engine block space in a sedan; while you call them the bonnet & boot over in the UK, they're called the hood & trunk in NA
The Society of Automotive Engineers defines a “coupe” not in terms of how many doors a car has, or how its roof is sloped, but how much space the car has behind the driver. If > 33 cubic feet (~934 L) it is a sedan, and if < 33 cubic feet it is a coupe. Therefore, in theory, there could be a four door coupe or a two door sedan, and in fact some cars have been marketed as 2 or 4 door sedans.
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Lots more types of cars to mention. What about the station wagon? Small Hatchbacks, I'd say, are a good idea. They can have a relitively small parking footprint per how much they hold, and you can use a lot of that space for people or stuff interchangably. In cases where people have a small household, this fairly works well when buying fairly large furniture or going camping, cottaging picknicing etc, and works for most carpooling and road-trip scenarioes, but you can still park pretty easily in the city. I'm never gonna drive myself, but I have to say, I was impressed when my mom's car became a hatchback by this versitility. Many mini-vans are similarly made to give more or less bak trunk space. It's amazing what that makes possible, even at the smaller end of these vehicles.
This is actually super helpful since I know I’m going to buy a new car soon, but I don’t know what all the words mean lol
That's ok... You can make sure the dealer won't take liberties if you kick the tyres in an appraising manner. They'll most probably think you're a mechanic, or 'in the trade' in some way.
Shoutout to the *ute* and the a fried-out *kombi*
There's a couple you missed, but these are more specific names: targa (a convertible with a removable roof section); roadster (2 seater convertible, also called a Spyder/Spider); speedster (1+1 seater with no roof and usually no windshield either.); swept tail (a luxury coupe with a more dramatic "sweeping" rear-end design); boattail (an older rear-end style that looks like a boat's hull); limousine (a normal sedan that has an extended middle section).
I think you mean Togo, on the Atlantic coast of Africa
I used to crawl into my hatchback from the back door in the winter, when the other four doors were frozen a I couldn't open them...
How could you forget about the station wagon?
Or my personal favorite, the Coupe Utility Vehicle. Best known examples (in the US, at least) were the El Camino and the Ranchero.
I was taught that coupe meant simply a 2 door car, and sedan was a 4 door car. I worked at an automotive loan company. I got to learn a lot about types of cars, model names, and the contract side of a dealership (I usually spoke to dealers at my call canter). I also learned to decode parts of a VIN. One of the more interesting things I learned was that Maserati is not very unique when naming one of their car models. Quatroporte apparently means "four door(s)" in Italian.
*Quattroporte - and there's no "apparently" about it!
I thought a coupe was a 2 door, but there was some specific feature of the doors that distinguished it from a sedan. I don't remember what that was.
I had a 2 door, but I never thought of it as a coupe. Just a subcompact.
I guess it was also a hatchback (though the hatch was more sloped, like a normal cars rear windshield rather than the vertical one on most hatchbacks)
We currently have 2 cars from 2 different manufacturers with the same extremely unimaginative models.
Both are just 3 (Mazda and Tesla). Very different cars, though
I mean, I've only ever had SUVs, because I use them as a sports vehicle (pull horse trailers, carry kayaks, etc) and a utility vehicle (travel rough terrain with aluminum custom dog boxes in the back for my search and rescue K9s).
So...a sports/utility vehicle.
PERFECT!!!!!!!! I was just trying to describe a vehicle to my sister yesterday and didn’t have the word for it and now I do!!!!!!!
My ride is a bus! Much better and easier than owning a car
I sold my car last month. I could no longer justify the expense of something that sits on my drive 99% of the time (I'm retired and rarely go out). My ride is an Uber because I can't walk far, but even that expense is way less than owning a car.
Lucky you! I would love to have public transportation. But I live in Georgia.
Fun/pendantic fact: the "coupé" from which "coupe" derives is the past tense of the French verb. So it means "cut" as in, a car that was cut down to size.
Also, I thought the name referred to the car being "cut down" to two doors instead of four (three instead of five for hatchbacks), not the height of the car. Coupe and sedan versions of the same model tend to be the same height.
It called a coupe because they cut out the middle post from the door to the roof..
That's what I always heard.
Regarding "coupr" I have at least one old reference to pronouncing it "coopay": In an old Bogart movie, I believe "The Big Sleep", he refers to a car style as a "coopay".
Also I thought the "cut" reference in "coupe" distinguished them from the common body style of the time they were introduced, where the cab extended more or less full height all the way to the back, sort of like a tall boxy station wagon. On this new style, the back of the cab was cut away, leaving a lower area on the body which became the trunk.
Do a leg reveal at 400,000 subs😊
Sudan or South Sudan? Does the South Sudan drives flipped?
Sudan is a war-torn area … and coupé (pronounced coo-pay, except by Americans) is indeed the French word for cut (meaning having been cut).
When I was younger there was only saloon or estate (or station wagon); saloon didn't mean particularly big, just the standard three-box shape (one for luggage, one for people, one for engine - typified latterly by the Lada Riva, though there was a time most cars were that shape), as opposed to estate (which had the luggage compartment extended up to be a continuation of the roof of the passenger compartment - oh, and with extra windows, obviously). Obviously, there must have been convertibles too, though not often seen in Britain! I remember hatchbacks coming in - about 1970s, I'd say.
I'd love to get an explanation on the other car types as well:
- Estate / Station Wagon
- Hearse
- Limousine
- Truck
- Cab
- Taxi
- Van
- &c.
No mentions of trucks or vans? Good coverage of what you've got, and congrats on the channel progress!
What about Estate/Station wagon. That used to be a car for collecting your stuff from the station to take to your estate and afterwards it might become a shooting brake as it took you and your stuff up to the grouse moor.
I always thought the difference between a sedan/saloon and a coupe was the size and number of doors. Coupes are typically 2 door with barely enough room for rear passengers. Sedans have 2 doors or 4 doors with full rear passenger compartment.
Plus there are other body forms for sports cars like the GT (Grand Tourer), Spyder, and Roadster.
This just in: Patrick definitely has legs!!
I drive an SUV...a Jeep Compass. SUVs tend to have 4 wheel drive which makes them easy to drive in snow or mud. They're very common here in western Pennsylvania
I’ve got two vehicles a single cab pickup and for work an extended cab pickup.
there are more words for "convertible" as well like Spyders and Roadsters and more car body terminologies like Targas and fastback
I love the type 'hot hatch', a hatchback with some spice! 😂
Honda CRX? It's got a spoiler, is that spice?
Sedan
And here I was thinking SUV stood for Sub-Urban Van
I would have enjoyed an explanation of older car terms like brougham, town car, shooting brake, and phaeton
I believe coupe was a term use to describe a carriage too.
My car is an electric coupe-the Nissan Leaf. It doesn’t have a lot of room, but that’s okay, as I don’t drive it much. I use it for grocery trips and rehearsal nights. I typically walk to church, and I work from home. On the rare occasion I have to go into the office, I take the bus.
Anyway, great video, but I noticed you missed just a few-maybe you could make a part 2? You didn’t mention trucks/pickup trucks, vans, and like I mentioned just now, buses. I guess it could be argued that they technically aren’t cars.
Also, how are sedans “fancier?” I’d always consider coupes and convertibles much fancier than sedans. You also didn’t mention sports cars…would those technically be considered coupes?
I live happily car-free.
My parents usually had a combi/variable/break/caravan/turnier/variant ... in US usage it's station wagon. Now I wonder why the French use "break" for a carbody style when that word doesn't seem to be used that way in English. Similar to how Germans use "oldtimer" exclusively for ancient cars, especially those with separate fenders, free standing headlights, running boards etc. before the era of "ponton" bodies. It seems like english (not sure if british, american or both) tends to associate "oldtimer" more with elderly people.
And all the SUVs and pickups, I usually call them just "fat cars. Not just looking overweight, also literally overweight for their purpose in most cases, with a ridiculously bad ratio between empty weight and capacity (the thing that matters in actual trucks). Pickups have horrible aerodynamics and no weather protection for your baggage too.
I like station wagons! But apparently not too many other people do, so no love for the station wagon. Even for big families, they seem to prefer minivans or SUVs.
I've had two station wagons in my life, I really loved my Ford Escort Wagon, but right now, and for a while now, I haven't had a car. My bicycle is my main transport.
I have learned something. A CUV is apparently, a Compact Utlity Vehicle, a compact version of an SUV, although I'm not sure how different it really is from a hatchback.
And if you run out of ideas for videos, you can always bug your Patreon members to find out where their online nicknames came from! Some are obvious, some not so much.
In your car type video, you forgot vans, pickups, and station wagons.
I have a convertible and a crossover, which is a cross between a sedan and an SUV.
I literally wondered this two days ago
Here in Ohio, Sedans are four-door cars and Coupes are two-doors.
I always assumed a coupe was just a two-door car. My Toyota Echo is definitely neither sporty nor close to the ground.
SUV's were invented to take advantage of a loophole in emissions laws, and their main use seems to be to show off wealth.
I have a personal luxury coupe, it’s a style of car which is no longer made, 2 doors 5 seats, low to the ground and long as can be I have a Monte Carlo the last personal Luxury coupe ever made
What about station wagon? That's pretty ambiguous. Is it mean to be a stationary wagon? A base (station) that moves? WE NEED TO KNOW!
2:00 "Cooper" from Mini Cooper is just the name of one of the pepole that create the car, John Cooper, not the body shape of the car (the original Mini technically is a sedan, and the new model is a hatchback)
and coupes exists not because of "style and lack of substance" this bodyshape is more rigid and have better aerodynamics, looking good is just a consequence....
Did I get distracted and miss him talking about vans or mini-vans? What about trucks and pick-up trucks?
What about the "sudan" you showed in the thumbnail? 🤪
My new Honda CR-V is registered as a Station Wagon, but is called a small SUV by the manufacturer, or a cute Ute because its smaller than a full-sized SUV, LOL!
Any chance for a platform other than Patreon? Such as SubscribeStar? I don't trust Patreon's security.
yay Mini Cooper mentioned
Kinda disappointed that estates (or station wagons if your in the US) weren't mentioned. Probs the biggest type you didn't mention.
I mean, I guess pickup trucks, but they don't really need much explanation.
You forgot the Estate, or as the Americans call them 'Station Wagon'
"truck" and "big truck"
Cab-over-engine (COE) or conventional.
Is in it Sedan? Not Sudan?
Your patrons have exploded recently.
I learned Coupe was always 2-door (as in couple)
And Sedan was always 4-door
And a Fastback was a silly design
So why are some convertibles called Spyders?
I always thought coupe meant two door, but has a back seat.
Ah my favoirite type of video, JUUUST long enough to qualify for mid-rolls and half of it is panhandling. Totally done for the intrigue of the topic and NO. OTHER. REASON
I thought SUV meant "Sub Urban Vehicle"
No station wagon? Truck? Van?
No. Never.😅
No estate car? It’s like the main type in the UK
Wow 😳
looking for the difference between a "hatchback" and a "fastback" lol.
You Forgot the Station Wagon Or Estate Car 10:09
I have a super crew cab body type.
Yes, but what kind of car do you drive?
@@cottrelr Ford F-150
Takk!
MPV?
perhaps your unfamiliarity with cars makes you more suited to give it a think 🤔
Station wagon? Did I miss it?
Sudan? 🤣🤣
How about Estate Car, Station Wagon, Shooting Brake?
Indeed lol
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No van, truck, crossover?
I'm really sorry but the song throughout the video is so jarring to me since I play Kerbal Space Program all the time and that's one of the few songs they play on repeat. Otherwise, great video!
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I really like my massive faff. 😁
The Patreon thing has gotten out of control. And your thumbnail has the name of an African country on it.
pronounced coop
I have a car...go bike. ;-)
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SUV
Sub Urban Vehicle
Or maybe Seriously Useless Vehicle - certainly in towns.
I was taught SUV meant "sport utility vehicle".