What are the body dimensions and trunk volume of the Chevrolet Aveo sedan and hatchback

The sedan can have two or four side doors; for a sedan with two doors, see also the article two-door sedan.

Four-door sedan from the late twenties

Modern sedan car
Sedan

- a closed body of a passenger car with a trunk structurally separated from the passenger compartment (on early cars the trunk usually took the form of a suitcase-coffer attached to the rear wall of the body or was absent), without a lifting door in the rear wall, usually with two or three (for example, ZIM or "Chaika" GAZ-14) with rows of full-size seats.

Peculiarities

The classic type of three-volume sedan to this day was finally formed at the turn of the thirties and forties of the 20th century
. A sedan can be either a three-volume or a two-volume, a two-door or a four-door body.

A four-door sedan from the 1930s with two visual volumes and a vertical rear wall. The trunk-case is visible.

Today the sedan body

» is associated primarily with three-volume bodies, but historically many sedans were two-volume; examples are almost all sedans produced before the end of the 1930s and fastback sedans, in particular the GAZ-M-20 Pobeda.

The rear window on a sedan is almost always rigidly fixed in the opening and does not go down/up, although the back of the rear seat can either be equipped with a hatch or recline (entirely or in sections) for transporting long items.

1963 Mercury Monterey hardtop sedan with Breezeway sliding rear window

In the 1960s in the USA, Mercury cars had a unique sedan (and hardtop sedan) body type with the brand name Breezeway
(see illustration on the right)
, which in its early version had a lowering rear window (moving up and down along guides) , like the roll-up windows of the side doors; the rear roof pillar had a reverse slope, and the glass itself was located almost vertically), and then - a folding rear window with an electric drive, the lower edge of which extended slightly outward to provide flow-through ventilation of the cabin, like the rear side windows many two-door cars.

Sedans are traditionally popular in North America [ source not specified 47 days

], and until the 1950s - 1960s, two-door sedans were no less common than four-door ones. In the second half of the 1950s - 1960s, the sedan in North America faded into the background, as the two-door hardtop became the main type of car body, but in the 1970s, after the decline of hardtops, sedans again gained popularity, and now mostly four-door ones, which until very recently accounted for the bulk of passenger car production there (in the last decade they have been significantly displaced by crossovers - since the mid-2010s they began to be sold in the USA more than sedans). Along with four-door sedans, two-door sedans are still periodically found on the North American market, usually receiving the brand designation “coupe” for marketing reasons.

Opel Rekord A. In Europe in the 1960s, two-door sedans, even in the middle class, were comparable in popularity to four-door ones.
In Europe, until the second half of the 1960s and early 1970s, two-door sedans were also very popular as less expensive, and among the Zaporozhets or Moskvich class cars they were the majority (the most famous examples are the Volkswagen Kafer, FIAT 600 , almost all early Opel Kadett models and many other mass-produced “people’s” cars). Among the European “middle class” cars, such as the Opel Rekord and the “senior” Ford Taunus series, two-door sedans were comparable in popularity to four-door ones.

The Opel Ascona C is one of the last European two-door sedans.

Throughout the seventies, two-door - and in the small and even middle class, four-door - sedans were replaced in Europe by more practical hatchbacks, three and five-door, respectively, and this process began in France, where already in the late sixties, hatchbacks accounted for the majority of passenger car production , and the final European standard for a small class car was set by the German Volkswagen Golf hatchback. The last newly developed two-door sedans in Europe were mass produced in the early eighties: Ford Taunus TC, Audi 80, Opel Ascona C and some others. Even the four-door sedan in the eighties began to seem like an outdated body type in Europe; Thus, for the Ford Sierra and Ford Scorpio, the basic body type was a three- and five-door hatchback, and four-door sedans appeared in the production program only in the middle of their production. Meanwhile, subsequently both body types occupied their clearly defined niches in the European market.

The Peugeot 206 sedan is a special development for the markets of developing countries based on the European hatchback.

What is a hatchback

The main difference between a sedan and a hatchback lies in the number of its compartments - it is a two-volume body. In a hatchback, the trunk is combined with the passenger compartment into a single space. There is a visual separation in the form of the back of the rear seat and the stretched fabric mesh, but this border is easily removed - the rear bench in a hatchback usually folds down, thereby creating a large luggage compartment.

If in a sedan the entrance to the trunk is through a horizontal lid, then in the hatchback there is a separate door with glazing for this. The word hatchback itself comes from English and is translated as a hatch, a door at the back.

What does a hatchback look like?

Another important characteristic is the rear overhang or its angle. The simplest way to describe this parameter is the distance from the rear wheel to the end of the rear bumper. There is also a front overhang, measured similarly: in a hatchback it is necessarily longer than the rear. Recently, a new type of body with equal bevels has appeared - a liftback (outwardly similar to a sedan, but the rear window and trunk lid are structurally combined).

When choosing a hatchback for yourself, it is worth knowing its difference from a station wagon. Despite the apparent similarity, it is the different lengths of the rear overhangs that create these two types. The short rear of a hatchback is different from the longer one of a station wagon. The VAZ-2104, which is a modification of the 2105 sedan, well illustrates what a station wagon is: the length of the rear and front wings of the body is approximately the same.

Varieties

GAZ-24-10 - a classic three-volume sedan, in American terminology - a “notchback”
Classic sedan

(English formal sedan) has three clearly defined volumes - the engine compartment, the interior and the trunk - and a central pillar, and the length of the first and third volumes is assumed to be approximately the same.

Initially, in the mid-to-late thirties, when three-volume bodies were just beginning to become widespread, the third volume was very short, in fact, just a protrusion on the flat rear wall of the body. In the fifties and early sixties, it was fashionable to make the trunk approximately the same length as the engine compartment, but after the mid-sixties, the length of the third volume gradually decreased while its height increased to compensate for the decrease in volume, which over time formed the wedge-shaped silhouette characteristic of modern sedans. This body shape turned out to be expedient from an aerodynamic point of view [ source not specified 47 days

].

Notchback

A hatchback with this rear end can also be called a notchback.
In North America, this is the name for any three-volume body.

, including a sedan with a dedicated trunk.

In Europe, this can be called hatchbacks and liftbacks with a small ledge on the sloping rear door (the same type in terminology

).

Hardtop sedan

Four-door hardtop - a sedan without a B-pillar
A sedan (four-door) without B-pillars and (usually) with door glass without outer frames, or with retractable frames attached to the glass itself - is called a hardtop sedan

,
a four-door hardtop
or (rarely)
a convertible sedan
(in the USSR, in relation to such bodies, even the concept of “full-view limousine”, borrowed from German, was sometimes used).

Real (pillarless) four-door hardtops were made almost exclusively in the USA in the fifties and seventies, these were mostly large and heavy cars, for example the Oldsmobile 98. A small number of such cars were produced in Japan in the seventies and nineties.

Oldsmobile Ninety Eight Regency 4-door Hardtop, 1976

Two-door hardtops are usually called “coupes,” regardless of body configuration, but a more correct term in this case is “two-door hardtop.”

A sedan whose door windows do not have frames, but still has a central pillar, is not a hardtop. This primarily includes cars from Ford, GM and Chrysler produced in the seventies with bodies that had the marketing designation pillared hardtop

or
colonnade hardtop
, as well as some Japanese models, such as Toyota Crown, Toyota Sprinter Marino and several others.

Fastback

Four-door fastback sedan
A sedan (both four- and two-door) with two volumes and a sloping rear wall of the body or a vaguely defined third volume can be called a fastback

(English fastback), there were also commercial names -
Torpedo
,
Aerosedan
. Example - GAZ-M-20 “Pobeda”, Chevrolet Fleetline Aerosedan.

Two-door fastback
The term “fastback” usually means the sloping or gently sloping roof line in general, and can also be used in relation to other types of bodies, for example, a distinction is made between a fastback coupe and a fastback hatchback. This type of roofline is especially common on coupes due to its aerodynamic advantages and sporty appearance.

Two-door sedan

The two-door sedan is a cheaper variant of this body style, widely used on budget models in the past.
Shown is the 1958 Chevrolet Delray 2-door Sedan, the cheapest Chevrolet of that year .

) is sometimes called
tudor
(English tudor, from two doors - “two doors”), originally it was a corporate designation of the Ford company.

Chevrolet Monte Carlo is a modern American-made two-door sedan.
In reality, the difference between these terms is somewhat blurred. Often the commercial name “coupe” was given to bodies that were essentially closer to a two-door sedan. These days, two-door sedans (like hatchbacks, for example) often carry the commercial designation “coupe.” A classic coupe has one row of seats, but such cars are quite rare today; the usual seating formula for a modern coupe is “2+2”[1], that is, two full-size seats and two of limited capacity (sometimes they say children’s seats).

Long wheelbase sedan

There is a long wheelbase sedan

(for example, “Chaika” GAZ-13) - with an elongated body, often with three rows of seats. This type differs from a limousine in the absence of a partition in the body. Typically, long-wheelbase sedans have three side windows. Very rarely, but still there are six-door long-wheelbase sedans.

Liftback

Chevrolet Malibu Maxx - liftback
Sometimes there is a type of hatchback sedan

, or liftback. This body type differs from a hatchback in the length of the rear overhang - for a hatchback it is shorter than for a sedan, and for a liftback it is the same. Abroad, many cars are classified as this type, and among domestic cars, the Izh-Kombi and Lada Granta hatchback have similar characteristics.

Often the names “hatchback” and “liftback” are mixed, and the same model in different markets is designated this way or that. The term "liftback" is more common in North America. But initially these are two different body types.

"Four-door coupe"

Mercedes-Benz CLS - “four-door coupe”
The conventional commercial name for some four-door sedans with a lower roofline, creating proportions characteristic of a coupe, and an overall sporty orientation.

By number of side windows

Six-window sedan

Four-window sedan
In the past, bodies were often classified based on the number of side windows. A sedan with three windows on the side was called a six-window sedan

(English six window sedan), and with two -
four window
(English four window sedan). For example, the Emka M-1 is a six-window sedan, and the Pobeda and Volga GAZ-21 - GAZ-24 are four-window.

International terminology

Sedan term

used in North America, as well as many other countries - Sweden, Turkey, Denmark, Czech Republic, Poland, Portugal, etc. In British English and Japan, the commonly used analogue is the word
Saloon
, and in the USA this is the name for a drinking establishment from the times of the Wild West .

In German, a car with a sedan-type body with a protruding third volume is called Stufenheck-Limousine - literally “with a protrusion in the rear” (the concept of Limousine in German, in addition to the sedan, also includes a hatchback and some other closed body types). At the same time, a two-volume sedan with a sloping rear wall (fastback) is already called Schrägheck-Limousine - “with an inclined rear part.” It looks like they call a sedan in Croatia – Limuzina

.

Many Romance languages ​​(French, Italian, Romanian) use the term Berlina

(in French -
Berliné
), derived from the name of the German city of Berlin.
There is an urban legend that the French are reluctant to use the name "Sedan" because of the Battle of Sedan, where they were defeated by the Prussians. But in Spanish the term Sedán
.

Interior dimensions

The overall dimensions of the Chevrolet Aveo create the illusion of a large car, but in fact it is a rather compact car. The parameters of the interior itself match the body. The distance from the back of the driver's seat, moved to the rear position, to the back of the second row seat is just over 200 mm with a height of 350 mm and a width of 465 mm.

At the same time, the hatchback is even more compact than the sedan. We also note that the new generation cars have become a little larger, which has a positive effect on the space and ergonomics of the interior: four adults can comfortably fit inside.

Examples of sedan cars

Domestic models shown.

• GAZ-3, GAZ-6 - early 4- and 6-window sedans without a separate trunk, with a wooden body frame on the GAZ-A frame chassis;
• M-1, M-11 / GAZ-11-73 - pre-war mid-size all-metal sedans (with a fabric roof) on a frame chassis;
• ZIS-101, ZIS-101A - pre-war large all-metal sedans on a frame chassis;
• GAZ-61-73 - the world's first sedan on an all-wheel drive (4x4) chassis;
• Moskvich-400, Moskvich-401 - early all-metal sedans with a monocoque body and without a separate trunk;
• M-20 Pobeda is one of the world's first sedans with a pontoon-type monocoque body (without protruding wings). Due to the sloping rear with an integrated trunk, it is considered a fastback sedan;
• ZIM (GAZ-12) is a classic long-wheelbase large-class sedan with a monocoque body;
• M-72 - the world's first all-wheel drive (4x4) sedan with a reinforced monocoque body (fastback type), produced on the basis of the GAZ-M-20 "Pobeda" (the M-72 itself was never called "Pobeda");
• Moskvich-402, Moskvich-407, Moskvich-403, Moskvich-408, Moskvich-412, Moskvich-2140 - all-metal small-class sedans with a monocoque body and a separate trunk;
• Moskvich-2142R5 “Prince Vladimir” - front-wheel drive or all-wheel drive (4x4) class D sedans;
• Moskvich-410, Moskvich-410N - all-wheel drive sedans with monocoque bodies;
• ZAZ-965, ZAZ-966, ZAZ-968, ZAZ-968M “Zaporozhets” - rear-engine sedans with two doors (Tudor) and luggage racks in the front;
• GAZ-21, GAZ-24, GAZ-3102, GAZ-24-10, GAZ-3110, GAZ-31105 (“Volga”) - classic mid-size sedans with a monocoque body;
• GAZ-13, GAZ-14 (“Chaika”) - classic large-class sedans with an X-shaped frame base;
• ZIL-117, ZIL-41041 - classic sedans of the highest (executive or F) class with a frame base;
• VAZ-2101, VAZ-2103, VAZ-2105, VAZ-2106, VAZ-2107 - classic small class sedans (class C) of the Zhiguli and Lada families;
• VAZ-21099 (“Lada Samara-1 sedan”), VAZ-2115 (“Lada Samara-2 4-door”), VAZ-2110 (“Lada 110”) - front-wheel drive three-volume notchback sedans of class C;
• Lada 1118 is a front-wheel drive three-volume notchback sedan of the Lada Kalina class B family.