Coupe or Hatchback? suggestions?

Post by **Kaioshin1982** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:50 am

What do you guys like better S13 Coupes or S13 Hatchbacks? please let me know your opinions and also why u choose it.What do you prefer?

Post by **jrifter j** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:50 am

hatch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Post by **Rockenreno** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:50 am

I like the hatch better, looks more aggressive and sporty...

Post by **Kaioshin1982** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:50 am

are they both the same performance wise?

Post by **yeswepromise** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:50 am

hmm this is tough. i really like the hatch but i am really starting to like the coupe also(only if it has the silvia face). if i was in the market for a car i really would have a hard time deciding which one to get.

Post by **jrifter j** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:50 am

yes they are.

Post by **Zydeco** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:50 am

well the coupe is like 50 pounds lighter, cause it dosent have a huge back window. I like the coupes look better. But this is totaly subjective and biest on my part

Post by **Myrk** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:50 am

Hatchback. But I also happen to be bias as well.

Post by **eastcoastchaos** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:50 am

you can fit anything in a hatch, but i think the coupe looks better.i would and did go with the hatch(it makes surf trips a lot easier)

Post by **Phax** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:50 am

I like the coupes, and where I am.. they seem to be relatively rare. I probably see three to four times as many hatchbacks as coupes. When I was searching for my car, I had to pass on a whole bunch of nice hatchbacks before I finally found the coupe that I bought. I think that the glass hatch on the back, and especially the taillights make the HBs look like they have big, fat asses.

Post by **Redfastbk** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:50 am

HATCHBACK!!!!! the hatchback's curvy design is consistent throughout the entire car where as the coupe has a rough transition once it reaches the rear of the car with that ugly looking square back which is just not good aesthetics i would say. but then again i do have a bias as well.

Post by **PapaSmurf2k3** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:50 am

I like the hatch a little bit better, but i agree that coupes are more rare around here, and thats what i have, so i say coupe.

Post by **Cyberkreig** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:50 am

Hatch! Own it and love it. Tho, when it comes to the silvia front end.. gotta go with the coupe never did like the sil80. Did you know that in japan the coupes are called one-via?

Post by **sultan** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:50 am

if i was to buy an s13 i would get a hatch. the coupes look kinda strange in stock-body 240 form, but look better with silvia front end.

Post by **240Kuminachu** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:50 am

I owned a coupe, it was an auto, thats why I sold it. I would take a hatch anyday over a coupe, the car still looks good next to a 350z, like he said the coupe is a little square. more room in the hatch and personally I think the hatch handles better, Ive owned both, thats my opinion. Coupe looks too much like a lude and the hatch looks too much like a probe. Hell what can you do.?

Hatch all the way.

Better stero sound in the hatch also. coupes suck *** for stereos.

Post by **Onizuka** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:50 am

coupes have bigger speakers in back...

Post by **b240** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:50 am

Hb all the way , but i am biased as well.

Post by **lessthanjakejohn** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:50 am

http://nicoclub.com/zerothread?id=11422 ... epos+240sx - scroll down to see pics

THAT is why I am getting a coupe. Formerly Repos and now Dougsters. I think the coupe looks pretty old school.

I hear the hatch backs are more aerodynamic because of the way the window is in the back.

Post by **240canuck** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:50 am

I'd say get a HB they look sooo much better I think the trade mark of an s13 is the blacj mirrors and black trim around the windows and such which the coupes just don't have it looks way to much like an old school integra or old school 2 door accord.

And for the guy that said the HB looks like a probe, how dare you!!!! thats like saying your ferrari looks liek a fiero!!!!!!

Post by **BuudWeizErr** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:50 am

I think the coupe looks better when it's fixed up, but the hatch would get more girls than a non-fixed up coupe would. The only thing I could get my hands on was a hatch, so thats what i bought.

Post by **lucas_420** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:50 am

Kaioshin1982 wrote:are they both the same performance wise?

If not the same, performance between the coupe and hatch are the close. I have seen in other threads that the coupe is a little lighter and has a more ridged chassis than the hatch and that there is actually more back seat room in the coupe than in the hatch. Other than these I think they are the same. Personally I own a '92 hatch and love it.

Post by **Redfastbk** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:50 am

"I like the coupes, and where I am.. they seem to be relatively rare. I probably see three to four times as many hatchbacks as coupes. When I was searching for my car, I had to pass on a whole bunch of nice hatchbacks before I finally found the coupe that I bought. I think that the glass hatch on the back, and especially the taillights make the HBs look like they have big, fat asses" posted by PHAX

ok lets put it this way say you had a choice between a blonde bombshell of a woman(HATCHBACK) and an average looking chick(COUPE), but all your buddies also had blond bombshells for a girlfriend, would you go for the average looking , not up to par chic just because all your buddies had hot A** lookin blonds... Mother F-ing Hell NO!!!!

Post by **Redfastbk** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:50 am

DO YOURSELF THE FAVOR AND GO FOR THE HATCH!!!!!

Post by **Nismo1182** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:50 am

Cyberkreig wrote:Hatch! Own it and love it. Tho, when it comes to the silvia front end.. gotta go with the coupe never did like the sil80. Did you know that in japan the coupes are called one-via?

eh? Coupes are Silvias in Japan. They dont have the flip up headlights the 180s have hence they cant be called one-via. Unless they are talking about our (US) coupes, then yes, they are one-via.

I myself have a coupe and a hatch. Having driven both, I love my coupe better. I closes off the interior nicely instead of the open feeling i get from the hatch. I dont care for the flip up lights much why is the main reason i got my coupe, Silvia front end conversion.

Post by **Bubba1** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:50 am

Both look great to me. Both handle/perform so closely to one another that it's not significant. I had bought my hb for the loading flexibility. And I kinda like that more open feeling that Nismo1182 mentioned. That's just personal preference.You can't make a wrong decision here, no matter how you slice it, it;s still a 240

Website · Post by **jun-silvia** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:50 am

Check mine and decide

http://community.webshots.com/user/jun38

Post by **Onizuka** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:50 am

every opinion in here is biased, including mine. So get what YOU want, not what everyone else wants you to get.

Post by **Bubba1** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:50 am

jun-silvia - nice looking ride.

Post by **Cyberkreig** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:50 am

Nismo1182 wrote:eh? Coupes are Silvias in Japan. They dont have the flip up headlights the 180s have hence they cant be called one-via. Unless they are talking about our (US) coupes, then yes, they are one-via.

No Silvias are silvias in Japan =) Coupes with fixed headlights. However, when Silvia drifters smashedup their cars they would take the cheaper parts off of a 180sx and put them on their silvia.. creating a US spec style coupe. This was called the One-Via. My least favorite varation of the car.

Post by **lucas_420** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:50 am

actually no.

Drifters who smash their cars do not put the 180 front end on their silvia because it is cheaper, they do it because they like the way it looks... if you dont agree with this then tell me how a 180 front end with popup headlights is going to be less expensive than a silvia front end with fixed head lights (no motor, less wiring, more common.... and so on).

Now I can believe the sileighty came to by that line of thought (using the cheaper front end) but the truth is, people would not do it if they didnt like the way it looked.

What about an R32 front end on a hatch.... now theres an idea....:thinker

Coupe or Hatchback? suggestions?

Coupe or Hatchback? suggestions?

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