Hatchback is a car body style incorporating a shared cargo and passenger volume with rearmost accessibility through the rear third or fifth door, usually a top hinged liftgate and comes with fold down backseats for enabling flexibility within shared cargo and passenger volume. The American Heritage Dictionary describes the hatchback as a vehicle with sloping back with hinged rear door, which opens upward. Liftbacks and hatchbacks share distinctions and commonalities with station wagon models. This particular body style was originally appeared in the year 1930. These models can be illustrated in three or four-door models and might range in plenty of sizes.

Both hatchback cars and station wagons usually come with two-box design configuration with interior volume, flexible and one shared for cargo and passengers, along with back door for cargo access. Hatchbacks are available in four-door or two-door body styles and come with same footprint as comparably sized sedan models; however instead of traditional trunk, they provide voluptuous cargo capacity accessed by overhead liftgate. The first hatchback model was an IZH-215 Kombi with rear wheel drive system launched in the year 1973. Hatchback models proved to be less famous in developing countries in some parts of Asia, South America and Europe.