Ten Best Vehicular Body Styles

"Margin Of Error" (marginoferror) 01/28/2016 at 13:13 • Filed to: LISTS

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One great thing about vehicles is that they come in different shape and size. Some are made to accomplish a certain duty, some, like the crossover, are just useless lumps of bad ideas.

Let’s have a look a the 10 best body styles ever made.

10 : The hardtop coupe

9 : The Fastback sedan

8: The proper Wagon

7 - The longroof hatch

6 - The 4 door convertible

5 - The Limousine

4 -The Ute

3- The Proper SUV

2 - The shouting brake

1 -The Kammback

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Margin Of Error 01/28/2016 at 13:21

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I’m guessing hardtop sedans are Sir Not Appearing In This Film at #11 or so.

Margin Of Error > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/28/2016 at 13:23

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Well, technically #4 is, but good call, should have been there somewhere.

BigBlock440 > Margin Of Error 01/28/2016 at 13:35

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9 : The Fastback sedan

No. Small trunk openings are for schmucks.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Margin Of Error 01/28/2016 at 13:37

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I just sort of assumed if a car was between two groups it would end up in sort of the unofficial average of the two’s positions - but possibly weighted downward for not being one of them. Like an AMC Marlin, which is halfway between the shooting brake and the fastback sedan - it would be about 6.5, maybe weighted down to 7.5-8.

Margin Of Error > BigBlock440 01/28/2016 at 13:37

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O’rly

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Margin Of Error 01/28/2016 at 13:39

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Wait, I love the XJ as much as the next guy but a unibody is what got picked for the “Proper SUV”???

I would have hoped for something that was body-on-frame. Helps with the whole UTILITY factor.

Also, #10 should be ranked higher, with an emphasis on no B Pillar

Margin Of Error > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/28/2016 at 13:40

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Yeah there’s always a grey zone.

Like this one :

BigBlock440 > Margin Of Error 01/28/2016 at 13:43

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That makes it a liftback, or maybe a hatchback (according to some Europeans)

RallyWrench > Margin Of Error 01/28/2016 at 13:44

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What, no convertible truck? What kind of list is this?

Also, that Ferrari isn’t really a Kamm tail, just an elaborate shooting brake. Kamm tails are signified by an abrupt cutoff to the whole body form, like this:

RallyWrench > Margin Of Error 01/28/2016 at 13:45

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The stories of that car autobahn trolling German cars are legendary.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > BigBlock440 01/28/2016 at 13:51

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That’s why it needs to be a fastback coupe with an open interior/floppy rear seats - because hatches are for weirdos and that gives you the big doors to reach back there.

Or, it can just have a really tall/long lid.

Margin Of Error > BigBlock440 01/28/2016 at 13:58

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I don’t trust Europeans when it comes to accuracy.

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/28/2016 at 14:00

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The Landaulet couldn’t even be bothered to be associated with such peasantry.

Margin Of Error > RallyWrench 01/28/2016 at 14:01

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was it fast ?

Margin Of Error > RallyWrench 01/28/2016 at 14:03

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That’s a Bread delivery racecar

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs 01/28/2016 at 14:04

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The Landaulet is between four door convertible and limousine, so it averages at 5.5.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Margin Of Error 01/28/2016 at 14:04

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it’s a liftback aka, what all sedan’s should be. Why have the trunk and rear seat be totally separate? What if I need to haul stuff bigger than the trunk opening?

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > BigBlock440 01/28/2016 at 14:05

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Yeah but when closed it looks like a fastback sedan as stated.

Margin Of Error > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 01/28/2016 at 14:06

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Sedans a quieter, especially when you have someone locked in the trunk, which is impossible to do with a hatch.

JR1 > Margin Of Error 01/28/2016 at 14:07

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No Dual Cowl Phaeton? Are you mad?

RallyWrench > Margin Of Error 01/28/2016 at 14:08

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Very. It has a Rolls-Royce Merlin under that expansive bonnet.

RallyWrench > Margin Of Error 01/28/2016 at 14:08

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That it is, which Dr. Kamm enabled.

Margin Of Error > RallyWrench 01/28/2016 at 14:10

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Yeah I know that, but it’s not very aerodynamic. Probably the scariest shit ever at 150MPH

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/28/2016 at 14:14

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No, it would actually be between hardtop saloon and convertible.

Since the canvas top is over only part of the vehicle, which is what makes it a Landaulet.

Stretching the body is not strictly necessary.

RallyWrench > Margin Of Error 01/28/2016 at 14:15

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It’s got enough weight over the front axle, that may have been enough to keep it planted to a certain point. Ugly thing though.

Shift24 > Margin Of Error 01/28/2016 at 14:17

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Not sold on the fastback sedans. Audi probably does it the best. Now muscle fastbacks is something I can get behind.

mrbaits > BigBlock440 01/28/2016 at 14:18

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A car can be both a fastback and a liftback.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs 01/28/2016 at 14:26

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Ahem: “hardtop” in the adjectival sense used here is via the colloquial use from the 40s-60s. A permanent top in the style of a removable one, or with a structure suggesting a hard version of a convertible top - in nuce, a roof with defined separation from the body and no intermediary pillars. Which a landaulet is not, unless it has enough size to be a stretched limo and thus be missing pillars, which makes it a limo. Futher, no landaulet in the classic style has been seen on anything but luxury limousine-furnished offerings to wide acceptance (excepting canvas patch roofs a la Fiat), stretch or not.

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/28/2016 at 14:27

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Except it does have B pillars. Check the pope’s car...

Also....

Clearly there are B pillars.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs 01/28/2016 at 14:34

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What I’m saying is that a true landaulet shouldn’t be between hardtop sedan or hardtop coupe and anything else based on hardtop classification, because landaulets have to have intermediary pillars and thus cannot be “hardtop” in the vernacular. It does, however, class as a four door and a convertible by its nature, so any non-limo landaulets (excluding pre-war landaulets with single doors on a side) are four door convertibles by their nature regardless. QED. Either a four-door convertible or four door convertible + limo. No difficult triangulation required.

PNW20v > Margin Of Error 09/22/2016 at 13:24

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I am very much enjoying the Volvo content in this list. Carry on

M > Margin Of Error 03/08/2017 at 10:15

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Is shouting brake a thing or a typo?