hatchback
Americannoun
a style of automobile in which the rear deck lid and window lift open as a unit.
noun
a sloping rear end of a car having a single door that is lifted to open
(as modifier )
a hatchback model
a car having such a rear end
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Brinley said Nissan squandered its lead in the U.S. electric-vehicle market with the Leaf hatchback and waited too long to update its Frontier pickup truck despite the popularity of midsize trucks.
By the 1990s, its Fiesta hatchback had become such a staple of British streets that Ford was almost considered a local brand.
Even the smaller "crossover" versions, more closely related to conventional cars, tend to be taller and wider than traditional saloons, hatchbacks or estates.
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For years its Focus model was the UK's most-popular, but the US company axed the hatchback and the last Ford Focus rolled off factory lines in Germany last week.
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Why shouldn’t their town square prioritize strolling couples and amateur oil painters and kids tossing softballs over parking meters and hatchbacks?
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