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  • noun automotive The vertical support dividing a car's rear window from its rear windscreen, or, if the car has an additional window and D-pillar, the support dividing the central and rear windows.

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Examples

  • Note the perfect bow of brightwork around the base of the windows and the matching cut lines, rising at the side marker and descending at the C-pillar.

    Mini's Hot Coupe: Drive It—If Your Pal Buys One Dan Neil 2012

  • The Rolls proprieties are observed, of course: the tall, long hood ending in a chromic bluff; the short front overhang; the tapering rear quarters drawn back from the wheels; the steeply sloped C-pillar; the high body-to-glass ratio.

    Rolls-Royce Builds a Real Car Dan Neil 2010

  • The Rolls proprieties are observed, of course: the tall, long hood ending in a chromic bluff; the short front overhang; the tapering rear quarters drawn back from the wheels; the steeply sloped C-pillar; the high body-to-glass ratio.

    Rolls-Royce Builds a Real Car20% Dan Neil 2010

  • The Rolls proprieties are observed, of course: the tall, long hood ending in a chromic bluff; the short front overhang; the tapering rear quarters drawn back from the wheels; the steeply sloped C-pillar; the high body-to-glass ratio.

    Rolls-Royce Builds a Real Car Dan Neil 2010

  • The Rolls proprieties are observed, of course: the tall, long hood ending in a chromic bluff; the short front overhang; the tapering rear quarters drawn back from the wheels; the steeply sloped C-pillar; the high body-to-glass ratio.

    Rolls-Royce Builds a Real Car Dan Neil 2010

  •   “Huge rear blind zone from massive C-pillar; also have to crane your neck at traffic lights.”

    From the logbook: Dodge Challenger 2009

  • “Huge rear blind zone from massive C-pillar; also have to crane your neck at traffic lights.”

    From the logbook: Dodge Challenger 2009

  • We think it looks like a cross between a Nissan Murano and a guppy, and it's C-pillar is more of a C-wall, but we still want one.

    Muti 2008

  • There is a huge C-pillar, even though the interior wall trim is contoured to accommodate a window cutout.

    Just in: Scion xB 2007

  • There is a huge C-pillar, even though the interior wall trim is contoured to accommodate a window cutout.

    Just in: Scion xB 2007

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