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My two cents: hatchbacks have two doors. The rear seat usually folds flat for cargo space, and most of the roofline from about the back of the second row of seats consists of a liftable hatch.
So in a hatchback, the rear gate is part of the roof. In a station-wagon, the rear gate is mounted across the hind end of the car, not the roof.
These strange little Gen-X cars coming out of Japan are all small weird wagons. I don't see any hatchbacks among them, though they are no longer than a largish hatchback.
I guess it's station wagon time again, what with these cars, the Subarus, the Honda Element and the PT Cruisers, and now the Chrysler Pacifica (kind of a giant Vista Cruiser for Yuppies). Who decided station wagons would be hot again?
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