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A coupé or coupe is a car body style, the precise definition of which varies from manufacturer to manufacturer, and over time. Coupés are often sporty variants of sedan body styles, reduced from 4 doors to 2, with a close-coupled interior offering either two seats or 2+2 seating . Before the days of motorized vehicles, the word referred to the front or after compartment of a Continental stagecoach. In Europe , the original French spelling, coupé, and a French pronunciation , are used. The stress may be on either the first or second syllable; stressing the first syllable is the more Anglicized variant. Speakers of North American English pronounce coupe as "coop" and spell it without the acute accent. A very North American example of usage is the hot-rodders' term Deuce Coupe used to refer to a 1932 Ford. In the 19th century a coupé was a closed four-wheel horse-drawn carriage, cut to eliminate the forward, rear-facing passenger seats, with a single seat inside for two persons behind the driver, who sat on a box outside . Commonly, a coupé had a fixed glass window in the front of the body, protected from road dirt by a high curving dashboard. A landau is a coupé with a folding top. Through the 1950s opening-roof convertible automobiles were sometimes called convertible coupés, but since the 1960s the term coupé has generally been applied exclusively to fixed-roof models. Coupés generally, but not necessarily, have two doors, although automobile makers have offered four-door coupés and three- and five-door hatchback coupés, as well. Modern coupés generally have the styling feature of frameless doors, with the window glass sealing directly against a weather-strip on the main body. The SAE distinguishes a coupé from a sedan primarily by interior volume; SAE standard J1100 defines a coupé as a fixed-roof automobile with less than of rear interior volume. A car with a greater interior vol