Combi coupé

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A Saab 900 5 door combi coupé showing loaded with a 250 kg Stiga ride-on lawnmover.

A 3 door Saab 99 Turbo 1978, with combi coupé body, showing the similar look to a fastback.

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Combi coupé

Combi coupé is a marketing term used by Saab for a car body style similar to the liftback.

The term is meant to denote that the car is mixture of a "combi" (a kind of estate car / station wagon) and a coupé, although in terms of interior space it's more of a saloon (sedan). For the United States market this body style was called a "Wagon Back". The name "Combi coupé" was coined by Saab and only used by them. It is very similar to a hatchback, but differs in that hatchbacks are mostly found on smaller cars and also in the angle of the slope. In hatchbacks the doors generally don't go all the way down to the bumper. Hatchbacks also don't generally have a coupé styling.

The body style was designed by Björn Envall and first introduced in the 1974 Saab 99 but Saab also discussed making it available for the Saab 96/Saab 95 model range and Envall even went so far as to create the prototype Saab 98. The body style was later incorporated in the Saab 900 model line-up. Volvo also made a prototype combi coupé [1].