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Sedan (automobile)
Passenger car in a three-box configuration / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Sedan (disambiguation).
A sedan or saloon (British English)[1][2] is a passenger car in a three-box configuration with separate compartments for an engine, passengers, and cargo.[3] The first recorded use of sedan in reference to an automobile body occurred in 1912.[4] The name derives from the 17th-century litter known as a sedan chair, a one-person enclosed box with windows and carried by porters. Variations of the sedan style include the close-coupled sedan, club sedan, convertible sedan, fastback sedan, hardtop sedan, notchback sedan, and sedanet.
![]() | The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. (February 2021) |
2017 Toyota Camry sedan
1928 Ford Model A Tudor sedan
World's first all-steel sedan made by Budd for Dodge Bros, 1919