四门轿跑：轿车与跑车的完美结合

1950奥尔兹莫比尔牌88斜背式轿车

1950 Oldsmobile 88 Fastback

    曾几何时，在通用汽车旗下的几大品牌里，奥尔兹莫比尔（Oldsmobile）总是设计上最潮的那一个。88轿车更是奥尔兹莫比尔车系里造型最潮的一款。同下文将提到的纳什（Nash）和德加（Tucker）出品的两款轿车一样，88也用了斜背式设计，车顶后部平滑地向下倾斜，直至后保险杠处，也就是后备箱底部。这款造型因其平滑圆润的造型而备受消费者好评，不过后排空间的拥挤和后视造型的不美观，也使这款轿车颇受诟病——当然许多人对当代的四门轿跑也有同样的报怨。这些优点和缺点最终都被当代的凹背式四门轿跑继承了下来。

    Once upon a time, Olds was a styling leader for General Motors, and the 88 was the image leader for Olds. Like the Nash and the Tucker, it had a roof that sloped continuously down at the back, all the way to the base of the trunk at the rear bumper. Praised for their slipperiness, fastbacks pinched rear-seat passengers and penalized rear vision -- complaints that would also be made about modern coupe-styled sedans -- and were eventually succeeded by more modern notchbacks.