Editing Notchback (section)

==North America==
One of the first cars marketed as a notchback is the 1938 [[Cadillac Sixty Special]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://history.gmheritagecenter.com/wiki/index.php/1940,_The_Cadillac_%22Sixty%22_Sets_Another_Styling_Trend |title=1940, The Cadillac Sixty Sets Another Styling Trend |publisher=General Motors: Generations of GM Wiki Timeline |access-date=7 December 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110817224323/http://history.gmheritagecenter.com/wiki/index.php/1940,_The_Cadillac_%22Sixty%22_Sets_Another_Styling_Trend |archive-date=17 August 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=1938-'40 Cadillac Sixty Special |url= https://www.hemmings.com/magazine/hmn/2012/10/1938--40-Cadillac-Sixty-Special/3717671.html |website=hemmings.com |first=Mark J. |last=McCourt |date=23 September 2018 |access-date=11 January 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Take Me to Your Style Leader: The 1938–1942 Cadillac Sixty Special |url= https://ateupwithmotor.com/model-histories/cadillac-sixty-special/ |website=ateupwithmotor.com |access-date=16 June 2018}}</ref>

In a major design change among U.S. automakers for the 1952 model year, a notchback version of the [[Nash Ambassador]] was introduced.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Floyd |first1=Clymer |title=The Owners Report on the 1952 Nash Ambassador |journal=Popular Mechanics |date=September 1952 |volume=98 |issue=3 |pages=90–94 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=jNwDAAAAMBAJ&dq=1952+Nash+Ambassador+notchback&pg=PA90 |via=Google Books|access-date=11 January 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Gunnell |first=John |title=Standard Catalog of American Cars, 1946-1975 |year=1992 |publisher=Krause Publications |page=468 |isbn=9780873412049 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=EnYkzsGr450C&q=There+was+new+styling+for+the+Ambassador+and+Statesman.+A+new+notch+back+body+created+by+Italy%27s+Pininfarina+was+the+fashion+hit+of+the+marque%27s+50th+year |quote=There was new styling for the Ambassador and Statesman. A new notch back body created by Italy's Pininfarina was the fashion hit of the marque's 50th year |via=Google Books |access-date=11 January 2024}}</ref> This was in contrast to the previous [[fastback]] aerodynamic body shape that made the 1949 through 1950 Nash Ambassadors the "most streamlined form on the road."<ref>{{cite web |author=((Auto Editors of Consumer Guide)) |title=1949-1951 Nash Airflyte |url= https://auto.howstuffworks.com/1949-1951-nash-airflyte.htm |website=auto.howstuffworks.com |access-date=11 January 2024 |date=6 November 2007}}</ref> The new cars had a distinctive reverse slanting [[Pillar (car)|C-pillar]] and featured boxier styling that became a design trend.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Foster |first1=Patrick R. |title=The Nash Styling Sketchbook |date=1998 |publisher=The Olde Milford Press |isbn=9780966201901 |page=1 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=BPqI4GNSPNQC&dq=1952+Nash+Ambassador+notchback&pg=PA1 |chapter=1 - The Designers |via=Google Books |access-date=11 January 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=McClurg |first1=Bob |title=The History of AMC Motorsports: Trans-Am, Drag, NASCAR, Land Speed and Off-Road Racing |date=2016 |publisher=CarTech |isbn=9781613251775 |page=20 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Chd-CwAAQBAJ&dq=1952+Nash+Ambassador+notchback&pg=PA20 |via=Google Books |access-date=11 January 2024}}</ref>

In 1971, [[Chevrolet]] marketed the [[Car body configurations#Three-box_design|three-box sedan]] models of the [[Chevrolet Vega]] as a ''notchback'' to differentiate them from the [[fastback]] Vega models.<ref>{{cite web |title=Chevrolutionary! - 1973 Chevrolet Vega GT Millionth Edition, 1976 Chevrolet Cosworth Vega |url= https://www.hemmings.com/magazine/hcc/2014/03/Chevrolutionary----1973-Chevrolet-Vega-GT-Millionth-Edition--1976-Chevrolet-Cosworth-Vega/3735391.html |website=hemmings.com |access-date=16 June 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=How the Chevy Vega Nearly Destroyed GM |url= https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a6424/how-the-chevy-vega-almost-destroyed-gm/ |website=popularmechanics.com |access-date=16 June 2018}}</ref> For the 1973 [[model year]], the car's name was changed to "Vega Notchback".<ref>{{cite book| publisher= Chevrolet| title= Chevrolet Vega brochures- years 1971–77}}</ref>

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File:1939 Cadillac Series 60 Special rl.jpg|1939 Cadillac Series 60 Special
File:1961 AMC Rambler Ambassador 4-door pink rear.JPG| 1961 [[AMC Ambassador|Rambler Ambassador]] sedan<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=McCourt |first1=Mark J. |title=1961 Rambler Ambassador V-8 Custom "America's First Compact Luxury Car" |magazine=Hemmings Motor News |date=December 2014 |url= https://www.hemmings.com/stories/article/1961-rambler-ambassador-v-8-custom |access-date=1 April 2021 |quote=1961 Ambassador's reverse-slant C-pillar}}</ref>
File:71 Vega sedan.jpg| 1971 [[Chevrolet Vega]] notchback
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