Talk:Mitsubishi Cordia

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[edit] Cordia as a coupé

I've left in User:ApolloBoy's hatchback tag. However, please note the following sources:

  • Mitsubishi Motors South Africa calls it a hatchback here [1], and then when you click through that link, calls it a coupé here [2]. Thanks, Mitsubishi, you're a really big help...
  • Carfolio.com - the 1600 turbo is referred to as a 2+2 FHC (fixed head coupé) here [3].
  • Compare the height of the Cordia with the Mitsubishi Tredia in both articles (figures culled from Carfolio.com [4] and Auto.vl.ru [5]. The Cordia has a roofline two inches lower than the sedan. Hatchbacks have the same roofline, at least in Britain, and the original author is using British English.
  • Also, in Britain, it's more likely to be a coupé than a hatchback if the rear passengers' headroom is compromised by the slope of the rear glass, caused by a shortened roofline - hatchbacks are basically the same as sedans from the C-pillar forwards except in a very select few cases. If you look at the article image, the Cordia is the same only from the B-pillar forwards.
  • The ol' Google test: "Cordia coupe" gets 378 hits, "Cordia hatchback" gets 87 (revised figures as of 2006-07-06).

I don't dispute that it's very borderline, hence I've left the hatchback tag in. However, equally, there's more than enough evidence to keep the coupé tag as well.
Regards -- DeLarge 14:22, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
Edited -- DeLarge 23:06, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Just curious: is there any reason why the external links are indented? Haven't seen that before. But since I've read your request to... a certain someone — regarding the div tags, I've not interfered in case this is a rendering/compatibility issue too! I'd be interested to know though. – Kieran T (talk | contribs) 23:21, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
I use the colon at the start of the line to avoid them all running together on a single line. I suppose I should use the asterisk to bullet them, or just put <br> to prevent any indentation. Or I could <insert alternative method I'm not aware of>. If someone had edited that I wouldn't have minded. I'll go poke around some WP:FAs and see what the favoured standard is.
Regards -- DeLarge 00:11, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
Having checked the vehicle pages at [WP:FA#Transport]] (e.g. Ford Mustang, Mini, etc), they seem to use a bulleted list, so I'll edit that.
Cool. And don't worry, I'm not assuming you're an anti-changes ogre! ;-) Bullets certainly seem to be the standard, at least the de facto one, on most other non-motoring articles I've worked on. – Kieran T (talk | contribs) 11:02, 6 July 2006 (UTC)