Category:Touring cars (body style)

English: A Touring car (or Touring) is an open car with two or three rows of seats

After 1905, Touring cars succeeded the tonneau body style. Like these, early examples have no front doors. Other than these, ther is no rear entrance variant, and the tonneau compartment usually is not removable. Windscreen, top, and headlamps were optional equipmento. After 1912, tourings got front doors, and flush body lines. At the time of introduction, the term fore door touring was used for these. As the touring body style more and more resembled the (usually 4-passenger) phaeton, the designation became obsolete, and the term phaeton was used instead.

• Close-coupled Touring: rear seats are set closer to to those in front, giving room for a removable trunk at the rear.
• Tourabout: designates a sporty style for usually 4 passengers, close-coupled, and with either no doors at all, or very narrow ones at the rear. Similar to Toy Tonneau or 4-passenger Roadster.
• Salon Touring: designates a special array of seats with a walk-through to the front compartment, and one to the rear seat, if the car has three rows of seats. Also applicable for sedans, and, at the rear, for limousines.
• Three-Door Touring: Some cheaper cars had no driver's door, and the diver had to enter via the passenger side. This was usual, anyway, when entrance on driver's side was obstructed anyway by gear hand hand brake lever, and spare wheel rims. Ford Model T tourings were 3-doors in the 1910s.

British open tourers are defined by seat, usually from two to five. 2-seaters are not found as touring cars. Open tourers often are sportier, and have cut-out upper front doors. The term was still in use when Touring had faded away.

Touring cars were the most common bodystyle in the 1910s until the 1920.