Five-door cars for sale

Five-door cars are great choices for family cars. Whether you’re looking for a practical SUV, a city-centric small hatchback or a luxurious, fast estate, there’s plenty of great five-door cars to choose from for all budgets. Find your perfect five-door car online now, buy or arrange finance and have it delivered to your door today, all via BuyaCar.

What is a five-door car?

A five-door car is any model that has four side doors and a large tailgate to access the boot area. As a result, calling a car a five-door model is simply referring to the number of access points for people and cargo. Car body styles that incorporate the practicality advantages of five doors are convenient hatchbacks, load-lugging estates, roomy and rugged-looking SUVs, space-maximising MPVs and sleek coupes.

Although coupe models have been traditionally sportier cars with only two or three doors, many of those today have five, with lower, sleeker styling than hatchbacks and SUVs in the range, as demonstrated by cars such as the Audi Q3 and Q3 Sportback pairing as well as Volkswagen’s T-Cross and Taigo.

Why should I buy a five-door car?

The added practicality of the tailgate is the primary reason for buying a five-door car, as it makes the boot much easier to access. By creating a large opening, bulky items can be transported with greater ease, a feat aided in most five-door cars by the additional flexibility of rear seats that fold down. As five-door models have dominated car sales since the 1980s there is an enormous variety of used models available across the budget spectrum, available in a wide range of sizes, with a choice of petrol, diesel, super-efficient hybrids and, for zero tailpipe emissions, fully electric power.

Are there any disadvantages with a five-door car?

In truth they are very few in number and are largely so inconsequential that they are unlikely to factor in many buyers’ decision making process. One could argue that items stored in the boot of a five-door car are less secure than those in comparable four-door saloon or two-door coupe, but as many of those also have seats which fold over, the difference is minor.

Some performance car enthusiasts who favour hot hatchbacks and sports coupes will state with legitimacy that two- and three-door cars provide superior handling because the car’s overall structure is stiffer due to having fewer openings within its shell. However, as many manufacturers have stopped producing cars with only two side doors, such comparisons will be impossible to prove in future, by which point the next wave of enthusiasts will be perfectly happy with their five-door options.