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A fastback is a car body style whose roofline ''slopes continuously down at the back''. The word can also designate the car itself.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=fastback )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=fastback )〕 The style is seen on two-door coupés as well as four-door sedans. ==History== Automobile designers in the 1930s began using elements of aircraft aerodynamics to smooth out the boxy-looking vehicles of their day. Some designs that were ahead of their time when exhibited during the early 1930s included "teardrop" streamlining of the car's rear; a configuration similar to what would become known as 'fastback' 25 years later." 'Fastback' was first recognized as a definition by Merriam-Webster in 1954, many years before the term 'hatchback' was popularized and entered the dictionary in 1970.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=hatchback )〕 Opinions vary as to whether the terms are mutually exclusive. A contributor to an automotive-interest website singles out the unusual Stout Scarab from the early 1930s as "()ossibly the epitome of the early fastback definition".〔 The Packard 1106 Twelve Aero Sport Coupe,〔(Packard 1106 Twelve Aero Sport Coupe photo ), retrieved on 15 August 2008〕 introduced in 1933, is cited elsewhere as a fastback that foreshadowed trends which continued into the 1940s. Starting in 1935, Australian automakers introduced fastback body design that became known as the "Sloper". It was first designed by General Motors' Holden as one of the available bodies on Oldsmobile, Chevrolet, and Pontiac chassis. The Sloper design was added by Richards Body Builders in Australia to Dodge and Plymouth models in 1937, by Ford Australia in 1939 and 1940, as well as a sloper style made on Nash chassis.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Sloper Page )〕 According to automotive historian G.N. Georgano, "the Slopers were advanced cars for their day."〔(Walker, p. 18. )〕 Early European fastback automobiles include: Bugatti Type 57 Atlantic, Tatra T87, Porsche 356, Saab 92/96, Standard Vanguard, GAZ-M20 Pobeda, and Bentley Continental R-Type. Numerous fastbacks were also made in America, where the style was previously called "torpedo back". They included Cadillac's Series 61 and 62 Club Coupes as well as various models from General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler. In 1948, the all new Hudsons were available a fastback body for the Brougham and sedan models. At the 2007 EyesOn Design annual car show, entries from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s in a class called "Fabulous Fastbacks" included Nash Ambassador, Buick Roadmaster and Hudson Commodore models. A "Return of the Fastbacks" class at this show included examples from the 1960s and 1970s with a Buick Riviera, Ford Mustang Cobra, and an AMC AMX among others.〔 At a 2007 ''concours d'élégance'' in England, a similarly named class for 1950s cars attracted examples from Maserati,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1954 Maserati A6G54 Zagato photograph )〕 Lancia,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''circa'' 1958 Lancia Flaminia Zagato photograph )〕 Fiat 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1958 Fiat 8V photograph )〕 and Ferrari.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ferrari 250 GT Tour de France photograph )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「fastback」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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