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Best coupes 2021

Great coupes strike a fine balance between style, substance and enough space for the odd weekend away. They are good fun to drive, too. Most coupe cars have two doors and four seats, with some having more practical rear seats than others. An emerging trend is for coupe cars to have a four-door design. These retain the swooping roofline of a traditional coupe, but add a couple of rear doors for extra practicality. Here are the best.
1. BMW 2 Series

1. BMW 2 Series

The BMW 2 Series combines keen rear-wheel drive handling with an upmarket cabin and one of the best infotainment systems on sale. It doesn’t get the lastest driver’s assistance tech though and those rear seats are quite cramped.

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2. Audi TT

2. Audi TT

If it’s style and quality you’re after, few coupes do it better than the Audi TT  – two doors and a low sleek roofline. Add to that the latest car’s superbly well-built cabin, a fantastic infotainment system, tidy handling and a range of great petrol and diesel engines, and you have a top coupe. Those rear seats are pretty much useless for passengers though.

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3. Jaguar F-Type

3. Jaguar F-Type

The Jaguar F-Type looks fantastic and if you go for the six or eight cylinder petrol engines, sounds brilliant too. Inside you’ll find a long list of standard equipment and a luxurious interior, but the infotainment system isn’t great.

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4. Mercedes S-Class Coupe

4. Mercedes S-Class Coupe

It isn’t cheap, the Mercedes S-Class Coupe, but you are getting a lot of car for your money. For starters, both of its engines – V8 and V12 – are brilliant, and its interior is one of the best on sale, featuring a striking design and tip-top build quality. There are even more opulent coupes, however.

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5. Bentley Continental GT

5. Bentley Continental GT

The Bentley Continental GT might have a reputation as footballer’s car, but it’s also a truly great coupe. Its engines are hugely powerful and its interior is one of the finest you’ll find in any car. There’s not much to fault the Bentley, but if you’re looking for subtlety in your next car, maybe this isn’t for you.

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6. Mercedes E-Class Coupe

6. Mercedes E-Class Coupe

The Mercedes E-Class Coupe has a good-looking exterior and an extremely plush, well-built interior. It’s comfortable to drive as well, especially if you fork for the optional air suspension. Extra options are quite pricey, mind you.

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7. BMW 4 Series

7. BMW 4 Series

If you’re after a coupe that’s fun to drive, the BMW 4 Series is absolutely worth shortlisting. It’s relatively spacious too but its interior is starting to look a bit dated. An all-new version is coming soon.

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8. Mercedes C-Class Coupe

8. Mercedes C-Class Coupe

The Mercedes C-Class Coupe majors on comfort rather than sportiness. It has a well-made interior too, but the rear seats are quite cramped and the boot is small, even for a coupe.

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9. Toyota GT86

9. Toyota GT86

The Toyota GT86 was made by people who wanted to make one of the world’s best driver’s cars – and they’ve done a bang-up job! This sporty coupe is huge fun to drive. Feels a bit cheap on the inside, however.

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10. Subaru BRZ

10. Subaru BRZ

The Subaru BRZ is the not-at-all-distant cousin of the above Toyota GT86. Because of this, it’s just as much fun to drive. However, its interior feels just a little bit dated…

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Fastest coupes

Coupes are all about style, but the following list shows they are all very much about speed too. Indeed, we’ve got together some of the fastest coupes you can buy right now on carwow.
1. Bentley Continental GT

1. Bentley Continental GT

The Bentley Continental GT is as luxurious as a Rolls-Royce but a lot more fund to drive, and faster. It’ll officially get you from 0-60mph in just 3.7 seconds (although we managed to go a smidge quicker in 3.6 seconds) and hit a staggering 207mph.

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2. Audi R8

2. Audi R8

The V10 engine in this Audi R8 is one of the finest engines ever to grace a car. Not only does it sound out of this world, it also produces a massive 610hp allowing the R8 to sprint to 62mph in just 3.2sec and carry on to 205mph. An Audi badge doesn’t quite have the exclusivity of a Bentley’s, however.
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3. Jaguar F-Type

3. Jaguar F-Type

The Jaguar F-Type is one of the best looking Coupes around in standard form, but this range-topping SVR version turns things up to 11. It’s also massively fast, its supercharged V8 engine producing 575hp for a 3.7sec 0-62mph time and a 200mph top speed. It still gets, however, a disappointing infotainment system.
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4. Mercedes AMG GT R

4. Mercedes AMG GT R

The AMG GT R’s huge bonnet louvres, gaping grille and large bonnet spoiler leave you in no doubt about its intentions. This extroverted coupe will sythe to 62mph in 3.6sec and carry on all the way to 198mph. You’ll go through a tonne of tyres if you enjoy this car to the full, though.
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5. Honda NSX

5. Honda NSX

Hybrids are dull and boring right? Wrong.The NSX has three electric motors which assist its V6 petrol. As a result, there’s 581hp to call upon and a 0-62mph time of around 3.0sec to enjoy. It feels a bit cheap inside though and a terrible infotainment system.
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Best cheap coupes

Choosing a coupe doesn’t mean spending a fortune. Our experts have compiled a list of the best cheap coupes. All these coupes are under £30,000 – so yours for the price of a family car with a posh badge.
1. Mazda MX-5 RF

1. Mazda MX-5 RF

The Mazda MX-5 RF tops our list of cheap coupes as it gives you the best of both worlds – it’s a coupe, but at the touch of a button you can drop the hardtop roof for wind-in-the-hair thrills. It shares the soft-top MX-5’s agile handling and willing engines… and also its small boot and lack of rear seats.

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2. Jaguar I-Pace

2. Jaguar I-Pace

The Audi TT looks great on the outside and has an interior to die for. Just don’t expect to carry any passengers in its minuscule rear seats. Factor in discounts achievable through carwow and you can pick up one for less than £30,000.

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3. BMW 2 Series

3. BMW 2 Series

The BMW 2 Series is a cheap coupe that’s really fun to drive. It comes in well under the £30,000 benchmark but alternatives are roomier and come with more tempting tech.
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4. Toyota GT86

4. Toyota GT86

The Toyota GT86 is a sporty coupe that uses a back-to-basics recipe to produce a car with an emphasis on pure driving thrills. If that’s for you, you probably won’t mind the dated and cheap-feeling interior.
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Frequently asked questions about coupes

A coupe is a type of car that sits between a sports car and something, well a little more sensible.

Traditionally, a coupe car will have two doors and some come with just two seats, while others have a further two seats in the rear.

The best coupe cars should be great fun to drive – they don’t need to come with the most powerful engines, but they should put a huge grin on your face as you drive through a series of corners.

The final box that the best coupe cars must tick is they should look fantastic. Sleek styling, a swoopy roofline and a mean-looking, low-to-the-ground stance mark the best coupes out from the rest.

Increasingly, there is a new kind of coupe emerging. Buyers love the looks of a coupe – that low, swept back roofline – but need a dose of practicality for their day-to-day car. Enter the four-door coupe. These cars have the looks but also a further two doors and useable rear seats that you can easily access from the rear doors.

Are these cars still coupes? Well, that’s how the brochures describe them. We’ll let you decide.

Is a coupe a four-door car? Well, that’s a matter of debate. Traditionally, a coupe had two doors – and sometimes just two seats. People’s tastes change – or develop, at least. And so now you get four-door coupes. These offer coupe buyers more practicality than a two-door coupe. You get easy access to the rear seats through those two extra doors, but you still get the stylish looks of a traditional coupe.

That depends on where you come from. In Europe, people pronounce coupe: ‘koo-pay’. The word coupé is French and it’s literal meaning means chopped off. A coupe was a horse-drawn carriage that did not have two rearward facing seats. This evolved into a car with just two seats – with the others chopped off. In the US, coupe is sometimes pronounced differently – more like ‘koop’.

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