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🚗 A sloped-roof car 🚗 With sloping roof
fastback

fastback

2 5.9
A car with a roof that slopes down to the back
  • noun
  • /ˈfæstbæk/
  • Specialized
: fastback
  • That's a 1968 Ford Mustang GT 390 Fastback.
  • Mustang fastback
  • fastback coupe
  • VW fastback

I like the more like fastback look fastback like you get like the Fox bodies.

Examples

  • The 1966 Mustang Fastback is one of many classic cars members get to drive.

    Blog text (9)

  • He's a 1969 VW fastback with a sunroof and a dark bronze-brown paint job, which is how he got his name.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • This is a really nice little fastback you got here.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • This flip-up rear gate is an interesting take on how best to access a fastback's load floor.

    Blog text (12)

  • Mustang V8 Fastback.

    Death Race (2008)

  • 1972 Gran Torino, fastback.

    Gran Torino (2008)

  • Just then, Benny pulled up in the NewsSix camera car, a little white fastback with NewsSix and the station's call letters emblazoned in big red letters on the side.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • I'll take my driver, a 1969 Dodge Super Bee, or my 1963 Pontiac Catalina, or even my wife's yet-to-be-painted 1967 Mustang Fastback to any of the foreign cars you showed.

    Blog text (31)

  • The 1966 Mustang fastback is a popular choice among classic car enthusiasts due to its sporty design.

  • Many modern cars feature a fastback shape that enhances their aerodynamic performance.

Surface Forms

fastback singular
fastbacks plural

Morphology

fastback = fast + back (semi-transparent) = fast + back

The components 'fast' and 'back' are recognizable, but the sense naming a car type is a specialized automotive term not completely predictable from the literal parts.

Etymology

Fastback joins fast and back. With back meaning the car's 'rear' and fast suggesting 'speed' or 'sleek', a fastback is a car whose roof slopes down to the rear and makes the car look sporty.