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Replying to: andys120 (Apr 27, 2008 11:42 am)

It was Mercedes-Benz who first offered a four door sedan with a lowered roof trailing off into a fastback slope and oxymoronically called it a "four-door coupe"
 
Well, there was the 1980-85 Seville. And while they didn't have sloped off rears back in the 50's, some of the 4-door hardtops back in those days shared the same roof as their 2-door counterparts.
 
The CLS actually makes me think of the '80-85 Seville, or a '79-81 Newport/St. Regis, in that it has frameless windows but a B-pillar, and that fixed quarter window in the back door that looks a bit funny if you open the back door with the window rolled down. Some of GM's hardtop sedans from 1958 were like that, too. Chrysler's 1956 hardtop sedans had that little quarter window, but it actually retracted down at an angle when you rolled the main window down.

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Replying to: fintail (Apr 28, 2008 2:01 pm)

I always thought the Rover P5 coupe (actually a sedan) was the first sedan variant to have distinctively more coupelike styling compared to its upright sedan brother.
 
The oddball P5 is an easy one to forget as AFAIK it never came across the Atlantic but it did indeed have a chopped roof giving it a coupelike profile>
 

 
 The Ford and Mercury fastback sedans of 1964 come to mind as well
 
I assume you're referring to this variation on the the Ford and Merc H/T sedans >
 

 
That's pretty tame compared to the "Nascar"-style roofs the Sports Coupes got 1963 1/2>
 

 
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