A sedan (/sɪˈdæn/) is a car with a closed body (i.e. a fixed metal roof) with the engine, passengers, and cargo in separate compartments. This broad definition does not differentiate sedans from various other car body styles, but

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A sedan chair, a sophisticated litter, was an enclosed box with windows used to transport one seated person. Porters at the front and rear carried the chair with horizontal poles. Litters

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In American English, Latin American Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese, the term sedan is used (accented as sedán in Spanish).
In British English, a car of this configuration is called a saloon (/səˈlun/). Hatchback sedans are

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Close-coupled sedans
A close-coupled sedan is a body style produced in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s. Their two-box boxy styling made these sedans more like crossover vehicles than traditional three-box sedans. Like other

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• Car classification
• Limousine
• Sports sedan

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Notchback sedans
In the United States, notchback sedan distinguishes models with a horizontal trunk lid. The term is

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