Talk:Coupé de ville

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: No consensus to move Mike Cline (talk) 03:02, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

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Coupe de Ville → Coupé de ville – Relisted. Vegaswikian (talk) 03:36, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

For better spelling and correct capitalization. Eddaido (talk) 11:52, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

• Oppose. Unless there are some really good stats that show Coupé is in current use, there is no reason to move this. One interesting result is from Websters. Vegaswikian (talk) 20:58, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

late 20th century

'77 Cadillac Coupe de Ville

This car would meet the definition of Coupé de ville perfectly if the panel over the driver's seat was actually removable like a Targa top as well as appearing to be removable. Eddaido (talk) 12:13, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Assistance needed in shovelling crap out of this article

Within the past 30 hours or so, a vast amount of crap has been shovelled into this article:

• A paragraph about the car-buying habits of "Hollywood film stars" from "the roaring 1930s" was supported by one citation claiming the source to be a publication from 1878, which predates not only "the roaring 1930s" but the automobile and the motion picture camera as well.
• Another very detailed paragraph about driving to Southern Europe in luxury (oddly placed in the "North America" section, and including text in the second person in violation of WP:YOU) was based solely on a dictionary definition of the subject of the article.
• Very many references to Appendix 5 of The complete catalogue of British Cars 1895 - 1975 by Culshaw and Horrobin were made; checking against my copy of the book showed that this supported only the one statement that it supported before the crap was shovelled in.

There are also several references to Automobile Body Design by Ian Beattie in the article. There is a difference between assuming good faith and being a sucker, and this much evidence of citation abuse would put me in the latter category if I didn't question the extent to which this book supports these citations.

Would someone with access to Automobile Body Design by Ian Beattie please check the cited material against what is said in the book to verify whether or not (much of the "not" being expected based on the above experience) the book supports the material?

I thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely, SamBlob (talk) 13:30, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

What's a "qudo"?

"Latterly, few North American manufacturers have used the term exactly (ie: no open front), to enable their larger cars which could be chauffeur-driven to gain extra marketing qudos."

What does "qudos" mean? Could it be "kudos", which my dictionary has as meaning "personal fame or glory"?

Sincerely, SamBlob (talk) 17:26, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Retitle: Coupe de Ville with accent

Call me petty, but how about retitling the article Coupé de Ville instead? This minor change would bring it in line with the Coupé and Coupé utility articles.

FielderSincera01 (talk) 04:50, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Shovelling out crap again

This article again seems to be unreliable beyond redemption. It contains so many references to published writing of pure journalistic invention as if those fantasies were true. Most of what this article currently says is plain wrong. Eddaido (talk) 03:31, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

Not in the U.S.

Given that the U.S. was major auto producer in the pre WWII era, Coupe DeVille didn’t become a commonly used phrase until Cadillac used the term for its first two-door hardtop in the late forties. While some custom body manufactures may have used that term, it was not commonly used in the general public. To suggest that it was a commonly used term in the U.S. prior to that model is to spread a falsehood. And no, town car and Coupe DeVille are not commonly interchangeable in all languages. This seems to be a projection of someones opinion (European, perhaps) and that POV results in a misleading falsehood. Say Coupe De’Ville in the U.S. and most people think of the Cadillac model, period. ClevelandExPat (talk) 18:38, 19 January 2023 (UTC)