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It depends on the manufaturer, but I have always thought a sedan and a post car were the same thing, and a hardtop and a coupe were the same!

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thats how Ive always been told. coupes were hardtops (no post). furthermore, coupes had smaller interiors than sedans. Sedans were big while coupes were small (think of the coupes in american graffiti- they had small cramped interiors)

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Coupés are often hardtopped sports cars or sporty variants of sedan (also known as saloon — see American and British English spelling differences) body styles, with doors commonly reduced from 4 to 2, and a close-coupled interior (i.e. the rear seat placed further forward than in a standard sedan) offering either two seats or 2+2 seating (space for two passengers in the front and two occasional passengers or children in the rear).

Alternatively, a coupé is distinguished from a two-door sedan by the lack of a "B" pillar to support the roof. Sedans have an "A" pillar forward at the windscreen, a "B" pillar aft of the door, and a "C" pillar defining the aftermost roof support at the rear window. Thus with all side-windows down, a coupé would appear windowless from the "A" to the "C" pillars. These fixed-roof models are described as a hardtop. Targa top models are a variation on the convertible design.

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sedan has little to do with doors and are made clear by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), which standardizes definitions of the different types of cars on the market. Measurements of a coupe and a sedan are as follows:


Coupe equals less than 33 cubic feet (.934 cubic m). Sedan is equal to or greater than 33 cubic feet.

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1967 Belvedere II Hard Top

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