Does it have a B pillar behind the door and functional back seats? Then yeah. It's a two door sedan according to Wikipedia. kleinbl00 and I kind of talked about that back and forth a bit. What an engineering team might classify the car as and what the marketing team might classify the car as depends on their reasoning. Take it even further, regulatory agencies, whether for racing, emissions, or safety, all have their own criteria. It's a fun thing to talk about, but obviously not everyone is gonna agree. I think when car journalists write their opinion pieces, they have in the back of their mind a goal to get as many angry letters to the editor as possible. If you ever have a weekday afternoon where you find yourself bored with nothing to do, go to the library and look at a few back issues of magazines like Car and Driver and Motortrend and read the letters to the editor. People get their panties in a bunch over the smallest of details.Does that make my Civic coupe a sedan?
Maybe the confusion is popular or common terms versus technical terms.
That might explain my annoyance with the author. Nobody likes the guy at a party who declares a tomato a fruit. I don't think he knows his audience, or he's deliberately being obtuse to try to feel smarter than them.
But a fuckload more people will agree than disagree, and Road and Track are on the wrong side of the argument, and doubling down by being pedantic and whingeing about their audience. I think this is a recent thing. Automobile Magazine never ran like that. Motor Trend never ran like that. I'm willing to believe Road & Track is now because they haven't been worth reading for a long-ass while. 'member these? That's back when Road & Track used to care about precision. Back when they'd give you TRACK specs. Back when they were telling you things you couldn't just grab off the Internet because it involved original research. Now? Call your readers idiots for disagreeing that a fuckin' mustang isn't a sedan but a 240Z is.It's a fun thing to talk about, but obviously not everyone is gonna agree.
I think when car journalists write their opinion pieces, they have in the back of their mind a goal to get as many angry letters to the editor as possible. If you ever have a weekday afternoon where you find yourself bored with nothing to do, go to the library and look at a few back issues of magazines like Car and Driver and Motortrend and read the letters to the editor. People get their panties in a bunch over the smallest of details.
