Saoutchik was a French coachbuilding company founded in 1906 and based in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris. The company was one of the best-known coachbuilders in France in the 1920s and 1930s and, together with Figoni et Falaschi and Franay, is considered one of the most important representatives of the "Baroque" style in French coachwork in the 1930s and 1940s.

A new Saoutchik company was founded in 2016, and revealed its first new design in 2024.

Iakov Saoutchik (1880–1957) was born, depending on the source, in Ukraine or in Minsk (Belarus). Both were then part of the Russian Empire. The family emigrated to France in 1899, where Iakov completed an apprenticeship as a cabinetmaker and worked in this profession until 1906.

In the year 1906, Saoutchik married and became self-employed as a coachbuilder. He belonged to the minority of coachbuilders without roots in carriage building. The workshop was on de rue Dulud. Supposedly, the first chassis he bodied was an Isotta Fraschini, while the oldest known surviving car bodied by Saoutchik is a 1907 Clément-Bayard 10CV. Saoutchik's ambition was to become one of the leading providers of individually manufactured car bodies. He achieved his goal in just a few years and remained at the forefront of the coachbuilding industry internationally until the decline of individual coachbuilding after the Second World War.

Saoutchik was among the first to make transformables. These are large and complex four-door cars with a fully opening top and complete weather protection through retractable side windows; This is where they differ from a torpedo or phaeton. In contrast to the convertible sedan, there are no fixed side window frames or roof bars. These structures, known in the USA as convertible sedans, therefore present the body builders with special requirements in terms of stability, rigidity and operability of the top.

Saoutchik was one of the most famous body manufacturers in France in the 1920s and 1930s. During this time he created a number of bodies for large Mercedes-Benz chassis. In addition to transformables, these were also roadsters called Torpedo breveté (breveté means "patented"). In search of "visual magic", Saoutchik began to emphasize the main lines of his designs with nickel-plated, later chrome-plated and occasionally wooden appliqués. Saoutchik also built bodies for some Hispano-Suiza, Panhard & Levassor and Renault 40CV chassis; These were usually more conservative but elegant designs. Another preserved design from this era is a Rolls-Royce Phantom II (68 GN), which Saoutchik very modestly dressed up as a Cabriolet de Ville (a synonym for transformable) in 1930. The vehicle is painted black and has subtle Art Deco decorations; Inside, brocade paneling on the rear doors and elaborate ornaments and appliqués. The customers for these vehicles tended to prefer coachbuilders such as Binder, Felber, Kellner, Million-Guiet, Hibbard & Darrin or Fernandez & Darrin.

Later, Saoutchik also took risks in terms of design. He was one of the pioneers of extremely low slung bodies. In the early 1930s he attracted attention with such designs, which, however, appeared somewhat more playful than the conceptually similar, formally strict structures of contemporary Voisin.

A suspected Saoutchik construction on a Cadillac V16 chassis around 1930 has not yet been verified, but there is a Bentley 6 ½ liter from 1929 with a short chassis that an American customer had bodied by Saoutchik. The chosen structure was a three-position convertible in which the top could be opened fully or partially (only over the front seats), and there was also an integrated trunk. Saoutchik incorporated both French and British style elements and used nickel silver appliqués.