Talk:Coke bottle styling

Previously unsectioned comments
This topic is equivalent, but less well known that '50s tailfins. Many automobile articles make reference to coke bottom styling, especially in the muscle car era, but there is no link to a general topic or discussion. Area rule is also about coke bottle shapes, and has its own article. --Piali (talk) 17:10, 20 December 2007 (UTC)


 * What about a Studebaker Avanti 1963-64 and later non-Studebaker Avanti II? The Avanti has a Coke bottle styling, too. 91.153.182.74 (talk) 17:41, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion
As noted on Deletion_policy, I have removed the prod from the article, as I disagree with the concern listed, "Dictionary definition, not article". This information is more appropriate for Wikipedia than it is for Wiktionary. I doubt any dictionary in existence would have an entry for "". I have tagged the article as a stub with the hope that the content will be improved upon. &mdash; MrDolomite &bull; Talk 11:57, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Haunches
It seems wrong to me that the word "haunches" isn't used in this article. --Nasorenga (talk) 00:45, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

From Airplanes
Actually, the term and basis of the design comes from aerodynamics - but inapplicable at the speeds of cars. The principle that Americans call the "Whitcomb Area Rule" was developed in the 1950's to help fighter planes break the sound barrier. When the F-102 and F-106 proved to perform poorly, they had bulges stuck on near the tail, but the F-105 Thunderchief was designed with a real "Coke-bottle" fuselage. Check it out.

P.S. One of the most beautiful such cars was the 1963-65 Buick Riviera. Most of your examples are trivial. 4.154.252.67 (talk) 19:32, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

List of Cars with Coke bottle styling
This article once had a wildly overpopulated (and fundamentally uncited) list of cars (allegedly) having Coke bottle styling. This list (numbering 119 examples) was relocated to a newly formed article (by the above name) on 9 Nov 2019. Six weeks later a "WPcleaner" bot discovered the page had a list of references but no References heading, which triggered its user to make the fix, then label the article as "uncategorized", which in a matter of scarce days drew the attention of another user who immediately nominated the article for deletion. Which then triggered an extremely truncated merge discussion, resulting in a very selective merge of only the handful (7 out of 120) randomly cited examples (creating on 10 Jan 2020 what is as of this date the "Automotive Examples" section and its gallery).

For the record, the original list (as a list, available here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_cars_with_Coke_bottle_styling&oldid=935013383 ) grew by 1 example in all, the uncited addition of the iconic Lamborghini Miura by an unregistered user.

The final pre-merge 120 example version of the page is available for review here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_cars_with_Coke_bottle_styling&oldid=935013383 2601:196:180:DC0:297A:D09:CC13:9AAF (talk) 23:39, 13 February 2024 (UTC)