Re: Terminology
Posted by Leeedy On 2023/9/2 20:50:19
The clarifications here, however continue to keep the waters muddy by ignoring the fact that:
• there are definitions/names for body styles
• there are names for models
A model name is not necessarily in any way connected with the industry definition of a body style/type. Especially in the postwar market in the USA.
After all... how many cars (such as Thunderbird) have used the ancestral body term, Landau? Without any connection at all to the original meaning.
As for the use of the name, "Phaeton"... this has been used countless times as a model name– with no intent to define the body. For instance Mercury named one of their models "Phaeton" in the mid-1950s. I can think of other examples– including the Volkswagen example (which I questioned at a news conference when it was introduced).
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