Combi coupé

Combi coupé is a proprietary marketing term used by Swedish manufacturer Saab for marketing their fastback styled hatchback models.

The term denotes a car with a mixture of a "combi" (a European term for an estate car / station wagon) and a coupé.^[1] As a liftback, the Combi Coupé incorporates a shared passenger and cargo volume, with rearmost accessibility via a rear third or fifth door, a top-hinged liftgate — and a fold-down rear seat to allow flexibility within the shared passenger/cargo volume. As a two-box design, the body style includes an A, B & C-pillar.

The term was coined by Björn Envall and first introduced with the 1974 Saab 99. Saab also discussed making a hatchback available for the Saab 96/Saab 95 model range and Envall created the prototype Saab 98.

The term was later applied to the Saab 900 model line-up. Saab's national competitor Volvo also made a prototype combi coupé^[2].

At the Paris car show Jason Castriota showed models that indicates that the new Saab 9-3 will be available as a combi coupé.^[3] It has since been confirmed that the new 9-3 will be available as a combi coupé, convertible and crossover.^[4]

Gallery

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  A 5-door Saab 900 combi coupé showing loaded with a 250-kg Stiga ride-on lawnmover.

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  A 3-door Saab 99 combi coupé, showing the similar look to a fastback.

References

1. ^ TT-DN.se. "DN: Ny Saab kombikupé avslöjad?". Dagens Nyheter. http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/ny-saab-combicoupe-avslojad. Retrieved 2011-11-01. 
2. ^ Volvomuseet
3. ^ "SvD: ”Nya 9-3:an blir en kombi-coupé”" (in (Swedish)). Svenska Dagbladet. 2010-09-30. http://www.svd.se/naringsliv/nyheter/nya-9-3an-blir-en-kombi-coupe_5429407.svd. Retrieved 2011-11-03. 
4. ^ Valdemar Lönnroth [e-mail]. "ttela: Kommande 9-3 i tre huvudvarianter" (in (Swedish)). ttela. http://ttela.se/ekonomi/saab/1.1221211-kommande-9-3-i-tre-huvudvarianter. Retrieved 2011-11-03. 

See also

• Hatchback