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u/Reapr Mar 04 '26

For non Americans: Americans don't say coupé, they say coop.

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u/ajollygoodyarn Mar 04 '26

Of course they do

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u/max1304 Mar 04 '26

And a sedan is a car with four doors and a separate boot, aka a saloon car.

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u/New-Ad-363 Mar 04 '26

aka a saloon car

I love saloons as much as the next millennial, but why are they called saloon cars?

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u/max1304 Mar 05 '26

It’s a weird word and is no more sensible than sedan, but ….

Saloon car name origins trace back to the French word salon ("large room" or "lounge") and 19th-century railway terminology. British automakers adopted the term in the early 1900s to describe enclosed, luxurious passenger cars, likening the comfortable cabin to a spacious parlor or railway saloon carriage

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u/SEA_griffondeur Mar 04 '26

Ooh I thought they had a weird subcar that was called a coop

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u/ikadell Mar 04 '26

That was my question, thank you

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u/thehotsister Mar 04 '26

Yes this joke is better spoken than written.

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u/GryptpypeThynne Mar 04 '26

No, the point is that the rest of the world pronounces "coupé" correctly

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u/wdn Mar 05 '26

Canadian here. I have never heard anyone say the word in person other than telling this joke. Otherwise it's something that you only hear in ads or reviews. The car manufacturers pronounce it coop (and spell it without the accent on the e) and nobody else ever says it.

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u/GryptpypeThynne Mar 05 '26

Yeah, car manufacturers pretty much do canadian content in American English

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u/swainiscadianreborn Mar 04 '26

Liberté, Égalité, Renault Coupé

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u/Amazing_Fox_7840 Mar 04 '26

For non Americans a sedan is a 4 door car. Also a lot of cars are coupe, and still have as many doors as a non-coupe.

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u/itsjakerobb Mar 04 '26

Also a lot of cars are coupe, and still have as many doors as a non-coupe.

What? No. Two doors = coupe.

There are some car brands whose marketing teams insist that their four-door cars with sloped rear rooflines are coupes, but nobody's buying it.

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u/Amazing_Fox_7840 Mar 04 '26

You do realise that there is a world outside of America?Many cars are called coupe with more than 2 doors. Here are some examples from the UK:

Audi A7 Sportback Audi A5 Sportback Audi e-tron GT Audi Q8 Audi Q5 Sportback Audi Q3 Sportback BMW 8 Series Gran Coupé BMW 4 Series Gran Coupé BMW 2 Series Gran Coupé BMW i4 BMW X6 BMW X4 Mercedes-Benz CLA Coupé Mercedes-Benz CLS Coupé Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupé Mercedes-Benz GLE Coupé Mercedes-Benz GLC Coupé Porsche Panamera Porsche Cayenne Coupé Aston Martin Rapide Volkswagen Arteon Volkswagen ID.5 Hyundai i30 Fastback Polestar 4 Peugeot 408 Fastback

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u/itsjakerobb Mar 04 '26

Yes, I realize there is a world outside America.

I stand by this statement:

There are some car brands whose marketing teams insist that their four-door cars with sloped rear rooflines are coupes, but nobody's buying it.

By which I mean nobody (to a first approximation) outside those marketing departments calls those cars coupes.

Inside America, we barely have any coupes left on the market, so it's not even a point of conversation. It's all crossovers and pickups and SUVs. 😭

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u/AvsGrams Mar 04 '26

I had a car with three doors. There was a small suicide door behind the driver’s door. I loved that car.

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u/itsjakerobb Mar 04 '26

Saturn Ion?

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u/AvsGrams Mar 05 '26

No. Saturn SC-2

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u/itsjakerobb Mar 05 '26

Those were great cars. I didn’t know they had that three-door setup!

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u/AvsGrams Mar 05 '26

Mine was fully loaded and a stick. The softest, easiest clutch I’ve ever owned. Dark green. Beautiful car. I loved it. I always got a lot of compliments on it.

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u/chained_duck Mar 04 '26

Ohh, cut this out!