Talk:Car body configurations

Choice of words
It says "three or five-door hatchbacks (without separate trunk compartments) are a 'two-box' designs". This approach, referenced to a North American source, appears to treat long liftbacks (3-box) as a class of its own, distinct from hatchbacks. But then the article on hatchback says that the Brits use hatchback for liftbacks too (and so does yours truly). Perhaps the article should elaborate more on the uncertainty and diversity of today's body classes (i.e. Skoda Superb with a twindoor is both sedan and hatchback (liftback) in one car. And it's clearly 3-boxen. East of Borschov 07:49, 5 August 2010 (UTC)


 * ✅842U (talk) 15:15, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Merger proposal
This article has expanded to also cover one-box and two-box styling, so the title has become misleading. I therefore propose that it gets merged into Pillar (car) as the article where the body styles are covered. Cheers, 1292simon (talk) 23:30, 31 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Against There is an overlap in the two subjects; to talk about one requires talking about the other. But the two are fundamentally distinct. Despite commonality, its not necessary to combine articles aobut John F. Kennedy and his brother Bobby. 842U (talk) 12:32, 2 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your comments. How about renaming the article "Car body styles" instead? The intent is to remove the current illogical structure of having One-box and Two-box as sections of an article called Three-box styling. Cheers, 1292simon (talk) 23:18, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

Move proposal
I propose this page be moved to Automobile body configurations. "Car" is an informal term, and generally only covers light passenger vehicles and such. "Car body repair" would be an inappropriate name for Automobile body repair, and so is this. Auto body is a much more accurate and inclusive term. When I hear "car body" all I can think of is passenger train cars, which are actually called "car bodies". In automotive use, they are automobile bodies, autobodies, unit bodies, unibodys, or coachwork. I don't think I've ever even heard them called "car bodies" before now, except maybe informally at times.

64.222.125.27 (talk) 17:53, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

What even is this article?
I find it a bit lacking, shouldn't it include chassis configuration? Everything in this article currently is about bodyshell cars, particularly pillars for some bizarre, unexplained, unreferenced reason. There is missing content for monocoques, space frame, rail chasses...

Then there is another article car body style which is sharing the scope of this article. For example, a 'roadster' is more a use-case which should fit here more than a 'body style'. Rally Wonk (talk) 14:25, 5 August 2023 (UTC)