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2024 BMW 5 Series sedan
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1928 Ford Model A Tudor sedan
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World's first all-steel sedan made by Budd for Dodge Bros, 1919
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.
- ^ "saloon (noun)". Oxford Learner's Dictionaries. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
- ^ "saloon". Cambridge Dictionary. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
- ^ "Car Design Glossary - Part 2: One-Box (Monospace or Monovolume)". Car Design News. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
The principal volumes of the traditional sedan can be split into separate compartments or boxes: the hood/bonnet is the first box; the passenger compartment the second, and the trunk/boot the third - i.e. it's a 'three-box' car.
- ^ "Where Does the Word "Sedan" Come From?". thenewswheel.com. 10 January 2017. Retrieved 25 November 2018.