Brougham (car body)

In later years, several manufacturers (mostly in the United States) have used the term brougham as a prestigious model name or luxurious trim level on cars where the driver is in the cabin with the passengers (i.e. cars that do not use the brougham body style).

As a car body style, a brougham was initially a vehicle similar to a limousine but with an outside seat in front for the chauffeur and an enclosed cabin behind for the passengers.

[2] As such, it was a version of the town car but, in its earliest incarnation, with the sharply squared rear end of the roof and the forward-curving body line at the base of the front of the passenger enclosure that was characteristic of the nineteenth-century brougham carriage on which the car style was based.

[4] In the United States during the first two decades of the twentieth century, the front of the body and the chauffeur were often deleted from the design, with controls placed inside for the owner to operate the vehicle.

Since then, the term has shifted from its original meaning and been used as model name a by one manufacturer, a trim level by various (being applied to sedans and even convertibles).