The company says the Abi-Loader is designed to be used with estate cars, MPVs and some hatchbacks.

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Alexander Edwards, president of Strategic Vision, said that Democrats also tend to buy station wagons and hatchbacks.

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Besides the Alto, Maruti makes the WagonR, Estilo and the Ritz hatchbacks as well as the Ertiga utility vehicle and minivans at Gurgaon.

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He said the company has cut the prices of its Indica range of hatchbacks and the Manza as well as the Indigo sedans.

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In the ads, Ford also depicts C-Max in a more flowing shape than Prius v though the cars, elongated hatchbacks, have similar profiles.

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Chevrolet wrapped the hatchbacks in a tribute to popular comic books.

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Nissan North America Inc. will deliver its first all-electric Leaf today to a young tech executive who happened to be the first U.S. resident to reserve one of the new plug-in hatchbacks.

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To set the table a bit: The Focus ST is what's known as a sport-compact, or a hot hatch, a category of performance-minded variants of what are generally pretty routine, practical hatchbacks.

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"I meant to work here until my retirement, " says Masahiro Yoshino, 48, riding a bus from the Nissan plant that makes hatchbacks in the Tokyo suburb of Murayama, one of the factories Nissan plans to shutter.

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