Class for vehicles

[silicon]

Hi everyone, I wanted to write a class allowing a user to enter information about his or her car. I already have an idea of how to write it but for some reason I feel that something is wrong in the way I've written it.
I haven't completed the code since I just started it but I wanted it to take in all of the information (doors, cylinders, and transmission) and output the type of car the user has (suv/sportrscar). I've done it with the doors already just to give you an example.

Please let me know if I'm on the right track or if I will cause a lot of errors if I continue to complete the code this way.

#include <iostream.h>


class Vehicle
{
  public:

    Suv();
	Sportscar();
  private:
    int doors;
    int cylinders;
	int name;
	int color;
	int transmission;
};


Vehicle::Suv()
{
 cout<<" How many doors does the car have? ";
 cin>>doors;
	if (doors>=4)
	 cout<<" You are driving an SUV"<<endl;
	else
		cout<<" You are driving a sportscar"<<endl;
	

 
}

Vehicle::Sportscar()
{
	cout<<" How many doors does the car have? ";
	cin>>doors;
	
	if (doors<4)
		cout<<" You are driving a sportscar"<<endl;
		else
		cout<<" You are driving an SUV"<<endl;
}

int main()
{
	Vehicle c;
	
	c.Suv();
	c.Sportscar();

return 0;
}

[SirCrono6]

Well, I'm pretty new to C++, so I can't help you much. But I did notice one thing. If you have a compiler that's up to the standard then you will get a error about deprecated headers. Simply change

#include <iostream.h>

to

#include <iostream>

-SirCrono6

[laasunde]

Maybe something like this :

#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>

using namespace std;

class Vehicle
{
  public:
  Vehicle(int, char*);
  ~Vehicle();
  void print();
  private:
  char *type;
  int doors;
};

Vehicle::Vehicle(int d, char *t)
{
    doors = d;
    int len = strlen(t);
    type = new char[len+1];  
    strcpy(type,t);
}

Vehicle::~Vehicle()
{
    delete type;
}

void Vehicle::print()
{
    cout << "The " << type << " has " << doors << " doors." << endl;
}

int main()
{
  char buf[] = "SUV";
  Vehicle c(4, buf);
  c.print();
  system("PAUSE");	
  return 0;
}

You might also want to look into inheritance where you have one base class 'vehicular' with a suv and sportcar class that inherit from the base class.

[Zach L.]

For the transmission type, I'd use an enum:

class Vehicle
{
public:
  enum transmission_type = { manual, automatic };
private:
  transmission_type transmission;
};