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A sedan (/sɪˈdæn/), or saloon, may be a coach during a three-box configuration with separate compartments for engine, passenger, and cargo.

Sedan’s first recorded use as a reputation for a car body was in 1912.The name comes from a 17th-century development of a litter, the sedan , a one-person enclosed box with windows and carried by porters.

Variations of the sedan sort of body include: close-coupled sedan, club sedan, convertible sedan, fastback sedan, hardtop sedan, notchback sedan and sedanet/sedanette.