Editing Liftback (section)

== Europe ==
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Liftbacks were the mainstay of manufacturers' [[D-segment]] offerings in Europe in the 1990s to late 2000s, having become popular in the 1980s. {{cn|date=September 2020}} It was common for manufacturers to offer the same D-segment model in three different body styles: a 4-door sedan, a 5-door liftback, and a 5-door station wagon. Such models included the [[Ford Mondeo]], the [[Mazda 626]] and [[Mazda6|6]], the [[Nissan Primera]], the [[Opel Vectra]] and [[Opel Insignia|Insignia]], and the [[Toyota Carina]] and [[Toyota Avensis|Avensis]]. There were also models in this market segment available only as a 5-door liftback or a 4-door sedan, and models available only as a 5-door liftback or a 5-door station wagon. Often, the liftback and the sedan shared the same wheelbase and the same overall length, and the full rear overhang length of a conventional sedan [[Trunk (car)|trunk]] was retained on the five-door liftback version of the car.

The term was sometimes used for marketing purposes, among others, by [[Toyota]], for example, to distinguish between two 5-door versions of the [[Toyota Corolla (E90)|E90 series Corolla]] sold in Europe, one of which was a conventional 5-door hatchback with a nearly vertical rear hatch while the other one was a 5-door liftback.

[[Audi]], [[BMW]] and [[Mercedes-Benz]] were not part of this trend in the 1990s, as they did not offer their [[D-segment]] or [[executive car]]s as 5-door liftbacks back then. However as some other manufacturers started to retire D-segment liftbacks from their European lineup, starting around 2009 Audi and BMW started to sell liftback versions of some of their vehicles but with their own marketing terms, referring to them as ''Sportback'' (Audi) or ''Gran Turismo'' (BMW). For instance the [[Audi A4]] and [[Audi A6]] sedans had liftback variants known as the [[Audi A5]] Sportback and [[Audi A7]] Sportback, respectively. Interestingly, the Audi A7 Sportback would give rise to the Audi A7L which was an extended-wheelbase sedan of the former. However BMW's liftback variants of the [[BMW 5 Series (F10)]] and [[BMW 5 Series (G30)]], sold as the [[BMW_5_Series_(F10)#Gran_Turismo_(F07)|BMW 5 Series Gran Turismo (F07)]] and as the [[BMW 6 Series (G32)]], were not successful.

The [[Škoda Superb#B6|second-generation Škoda Superb]], produced from 2008 until 2015, is a car that functions both as a hatchback and a sedan. It features a ''Twindoor'' trunk lid that can be opened using hinges located below the rear glass, or together with the rear glass using hinges at the roof.<ref>{{Cite web|title=YouTube video| website=[[YouTube]] | date=11 July 2014 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Ek25kwTqY}}</ref>