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Why the hell do we call them all 3 and 5 doors???
Occurred to me today in a daydreamy moment...
3 or 5 door evokes the idea you use the extra door (or boot) to enter the vehicle...
Really cant remember the last time I used the boot to get my passengers in...
and in saloons you can't get in the cabin from the boot...so why the 3rd or 5th door?!
Anyone got any thoughts?! I know sometimes they are referred to as 2 and 4 door...but its not as common as the 3 and 5 dr.
And if we are going for ways to enter, then I have a 6 door, coz I gota sunroof!!!
Or if its just openings to the car in general, then why dont we count the bonnet?!
where did it all start?! 
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A salloon is a 4 door for a start. A saloon style car with a hatch is still a hatchback.
Also I frequently enter through the tailgate to get stuff from the far end off the luggage space. 
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(11-02-2013, 08:10 PM)Toms306 Wrote: A salloon is a 4 door for a start. A saloon style car with a hatch is still a hatchback.
Also I frequently enter through the tailgate to get stuff from the far end off the luggage space.
Thats because your short. I can reach stuff from the front of a artic without getting in past the doors.
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A door is classed as anything with a window in it iirc. You can still get a 5-door Mondeo (saloon) for example it will just have the bootlid hinged from the roof rather than from the bottom of the rear window/c-pillar...
3-doors look the best though, especially on a 306. Fake fuel caps ftw.
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Only short compared to you niall....6ft is usually considered over average though.
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so a sunroof counts...win! I have a 6 door
3 door/2 door is pointless unless you dont have rear seats IMO
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It differentiates between a Hatchback or Saloon.
A 306 will be 3 or 5 door, a 306 sedan will be a 4dr, my 405 is a 4dr.
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(11-02-2013, 08:19 PM)C.A.R. Wrote: A door is classed as anything with a window in it iirc. You can still get a 5-door Mondeo (saloon) for example it will just have the bootlid hinged from the roof rather than from the bottom of the rear window/c-pillar...
3-doors look the best though, especially on a 306. Fake fuel caps ftw.
That's still a 5 door hatchback though...a saloon has a wank little boot that hinges under the window and isn't big enough for a weeks shopping... 
Alternatively called a 'liftback' if Japanese...
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(11-02-2013, 08:19 PM)C.A.R. Wrote: You can still get a 5-door Mondeo (saloon) for example it will just have the bootlid hinged from the roof
not so...they did a mondeo hatch...
and a saloon...
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and a boot is not a door
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Family editions are pointless unless you have a family... practicality is for when you're old and boring. Or Toms306
It is true, you can get a 5 and 4 door Mondeo, same with a Vectra etc
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PS, Tom, saloon boots are better than hatch boots. You have about another foot of bootspace. Just obviously you cant fit bigger objects in/fold down seats very much/well. And dare i say, i prefer my saloon boot for bass 
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Nope, luggage space is longer and higher with the seats down in a hatch, you don't have that option with a boot. My mate had a view when I had the golf, I had all 4 wheels in my hatch boot, he could only fit 2 in the Nora boot due to the way its setup.
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(11-02-2013, 08:20 PM)Toms306 Wrote: Only short compared to you niall....6ft is usually considered over average though.
Try standing near Niall and Dum-Dum, felt like a child and I'm average height (5'10")
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(11-02-2013, 08:31 PM)bigcheez2k3 Wrote: (11-02-2013, 08:20 PM)Toms306 Wrote: Only short compared to you niall....6ft is usually considered over average though.
Try standing near Niall and Dum-Dum, felt like a child and I'm average height (5'10")
Dont diss man. All the cool kids are tall these days!
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Somehow 'bora' was a autocorrected to Nora and view.
And lol Sam, they are both scary in real life tbh...
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(11-02-2013, 08:34 PM)Niall Wrote: (11-02-2013, 08:31 PM)bigcheez2k3 Wrote: (11-02-2013, 08:20 PM)Toms306 Wrote: Only short compared to you niall....6ft is usually considered over average though.
Try standing near Niall and Dum-Dum, felt like a child and I'm average height (5'10")
Dont diss man. All the cool kids are tall these days!
But Tom is tall-ish too?
:p
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Well thanks. 
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still begs the Q why we call a boot a door?!?!
And saloons suck for a boot...what the hell...enclosed space for nothing
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A 'boot' isn't a door. A tailgate is. 
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11-02-2013, 08:46 PM
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...in that case...
why is a tailgate a door?!
Is it not a gate?!
I dont open the garden door and go down a garden road...
I open a gate and go down a path
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Lol...because that's what its bloody well called!
This is like trying to explain stuff to my nan.... 
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No, I just wondered if it was something we adopted from america...
But then I realised that bonnets are hoods over there and boots are trunks...
just got me thinking thats all...seems silly to me...i have a car with 4 doors, a sunroof and a boothatch...so I think thats 6 door...or was it 5?
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Can you get anything in or out of the sun roof in normal use? Nope, so its not a door.
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yes....a plant pot, a mars bar, a phone, a cd case,......
and I probably could too, I am well skinny!!!
....some clothes....bottle of water....cash....few car bits....
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If it has a window and is hinged, it's a door....technically.
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so my sunroof does count!!!
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Imo a sunroof is a window rather than a door....
A piece of glass with a rubber surround, no handle and either a motor or wonder to operate....how many other doors are like that?
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mine has hinges and a handle
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