Combi coupé is a marketing term used by Saab for a car body style similar to the liftback. In popular usage "marketing" is the promotion of products especially Advertising and Branding However in professional usage the term has a wider meaning of Saab Automobile AB, better known as Saab, is a Swedish car manufacturer and currently a wholly-owned Subsidiary of General Motors. Cars can come in a large variety of different body styles. Some are still in production while others are of historical interest only A liftback is a Car body style in which the cargo space (boot is accessed through a Tailgate that extends up to the higher end of the C-pillar and includes
The term is meant to denote that the car is mixture of combi (station wagon) and coupé although in terms of interior space it's more of a saloon (or sedan). (Including for motoring-related uses where the spelling remains "combi" A station wagon (or simply wagon) in American, Australian, Canadian and New Zealand usage and an estate car (or just estate For the USA market this body style was called a 'Wagon Back'. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The name 'Combi coupé' was coined by Saab and only used by them. It is very similar to a hatchback, but differs in that hatchbacks are mostly found on smaller cars and also in the angle of the slope. Hatchback is a term designating an Automobile design containing a passenger cabin with an integrated Cargo space accessed from behind the vehicle by a single In hatchbacks the doors generally don't go all the way down to the bumper. Hatchbacks also don't geneally have a coupé styling.
The bodystyle was designed by Björn Envall and first introduced in the 1974 Saab 99 but Saab also discussed making it available for the Saab 96/Saab 95 model range and Envall even went so far as to create the prototype Saab 98. Björn Envall, born in 1942 is an Automobile designer and was head of the design department at Saab, until his retirement Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. The 99 is an Automobile produced by Saab from 1968 to 1984 Development On April 2, 1965, Gudmund's day in The Saab 96 is an Automobile made by Saab. It was introduced in 1960 and was produced until January 1980 a run of 20 years This article is about the 1959-1978 Saab station wagon/Estate car for the current Saab model see Saab 9-5 The Saab 95 was a 7-seater 2-door A prototype is an original type form or instance of something serving as a typical example basis or standard for other things of the same category Saab 98 was the number used by Saab for a project in 1974 making a Combi coupé based on the Saab 95. The body style was later incorporated in the Saab 900 model line-up. The 900 is a car that was made by Saab Automobile from 1978 until 1998 in two generations Volvo also made a prototype combi coupé[1].
Some observers regard the Saab 900 three-door Combi coupé as 'sportier' than the sedan, despite having larger loading space. This may be because the look is reminiscent of a 'fastback'. A fastback is a Car body style whose roofline slopes continuously down at the back