Coupes blend stylish, aerodynamic forms and a sporty character.
While coupes’ reputation is in style, manufacturers are looking to enhance their practicality too – meaning there are now spacious four-door coupes and SUV-styles coupes on today’s market.
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Traditionally, a coupe is a two-door car with a closed-body and sporty style. The average coupe has two seats, though you can sometimes get two smaller-than-average seats in the back.
In today’s style-focused world, many car manufacturers have tried to adopt coupe-like styling in other types of car, which has given us coupe-like SUVs and four-door coupes.
Here in the UK and Europe, it’s normally pronounced “koo-pay”. Americans, on the other hand, tend to call it a “coop”.
Coupe is a French word. It was the name for horse-drawn carriages that only had two forward-facing seats instead of the standard two forward-facing and two rear-facing (the original two-seater, if you will).
