A hatchback is a small passenger car that looks very similar to a sedan. Instead of a trunk, a hatchback has, well, a hatch. This hatch opens upwards so you have access to the entire back end of the interior. Often times you can even fold down the rear seats in a hatchback to gain more storage space.
Finally, sedans and hatchbacks are actually very similar. Both generally have seating capability for up to five people, and both provide storage space with a trunk. Hatchbacks are able to offer more initial storage than most sedans, however.
For a given-size car, a hatchback body style can carry larger pieces of cargo and can be loaded and unloaded more easily than a sedan. A hatchback's large, flip-up rear hatch door opens to a tall, unimpeded space because there's no package tray in the way. Most hatchbacks have either a solid, swing-up package tray or a soft pull-out cargo-area cover to hide valuables from view—both of which are easily removed.
The large hatch door enables tall, bulky objects that you could never fit into a sedan's trunk to be slid into the rear of the car once the rear seat is folded virtually all hatchbacks have fold-down rear seats. Flip the rear seat down, and a hatchback morphs into a mini-SUV. The size of the objects you can load into a sedan's trunk is limited by both the rear-deck opening when the lid is raised, and by the height of the rear package tray, which is fixed in place at the bottom of the rear window.
That also keeps you from piling cargo high, much like you can in an SUV. Hatchbacks come with two minor potential downsides. If a hatchback lacks a cargo cover, then whatever is in the wayback will be visible to passersby. And because the rear area of a hatchback isn't sealed off from the rest of the cabin as well as it is in a sedan, some additional road noise can seep in.
With Chevy's Cruze and Ford's Focus regrettably dead, few automakers today offer both sedan and hatchback versions of the same model. One that does is Honda, whose compact Civic hatchback boasts Fold the Civic hatchback's rear seat down, and that cargo area swells to Of course, you can pile extra cargo into the rear-seat area of a sedan, especially if the parcels are smaller.
But a hatchback almost always will be more flexible and better able to accommodate larger, bulkier objects. If you're in the market and trying to decide between hatchback and sedan models, we advise researching to narrow your choices—as always.
The three compartment structure means that the vehicle structure shows three major distinct sections for the engine , the passenger cabin, and the luggage compartment. You can see these three sections distinctly in the diagram below. Generally, the car's engine is at the front and luggage space or boot is at the rear end while the passenger compartment is in the middle.
However, the order of the engine and the luggage sections may reverse in some cases. A spacious passenger compartment lies in between these two sections. In addition, saloons usually have a longer wheelbase compared to other vehicle types.
A manual transmission would be more common in a coupe or a hatchback. Even smaller compact sedans, such as the Mazda 3 or the Hyundai Elantra, put the attention of creature comforts over high-speed performance. Designed to maximize utility, these compact sedans hold up to five people, with decent room in the trunk.
Unlike a smaller hatchback, their designs are focused on ensuring a smooth ride and passenger comfort. And, where SUVs tend to focus largely on utility, a sedan still allows for precision maneuvering on the roads. In the world of cars, bigger denotes luxury.
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