Editing Liftback (section)

== Liftback versus fastback ==
The term ''[[fastback]]'' is not interchangeable with ''liftback''. A liftback is defined as having a tailgate that is hinged from the roof, similarly to a hatchback, whereas a fastback is a broad styling term used to describe any car with an uninterrupted slope in the roofline from the roof to the rear [[Bumper (automobile)|bumper]]. Thus, although some liftbacks are fastbacks, not all liftbacks are necessarily fastbacks. Additionally, some fastbacks have a tailgate hinged below a fixed rear window, which is not characteristic of a liftback.<ref name="Flammang-Catalog">{{cite book|last=Flammang|first=James M.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xTM2Ixfev5QC&q=fastback|title=Standard Catalog of American Cars, 1976-1986|publisher=Krause Publications|year=1990|isbn=9780873411332|page=viii|access-date=1 March 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=fastback|url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fastback|access-date=1 March 2016|publisher=Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=fastback|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-fastback.html|access-date=1 March 2016|publisher=The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English}}</ref>

Some feel the slope of the rear window is a key determinant in the term ''liftback'', in which the rear cargo door, or hatch, is horizontally angled. As a result, the hatch is lifted more upwards than backwards to open, a lifting action.<ref name="Vehicle Dynamics">{{cite book |first=Reza N. |last=Jaza |title=Vehicle dynamics: theory and applications |publisher=Springer-Verlag |year=2008 |pages=30–31|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Pvsv78xj7UIC&q=%22station+wagon%22+vs.+%22hatchback%22&pg=PA31 |isbn=978-0-387-74243-4 |access-date=3 March 2014|quote=A hatchback car is called a liftback when the opening area is very sloped and is lifted up to open.}}</ref>

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| caption1          = [[Škoda Rapid (2012)|Škoda Rapid]] liftback. Note how the tailgate is hinged from the roof and the rear window is lifted along with the rest of the tailgate. It is not a fastback as it does not have an uninterrupted slope in the roofline.
| image2            = 1974 Leyland Force 7V Coupe (48296806101).jpg
| caption2          = A 1974 [[Leyland P76]]. It can be considered both a liftback (the tailgate is hinged from the roof) and a fastback (the roofline is an uninterrupted slope).
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