The bodies for all the Studebaker lines were new for 1941, sharing tail light design, headlight rings, and a new dash design.  Styled by Raymond Loewy’s associates, they were longer and lower, and had a wider grille.  Presidents and Commanders has a new semi-circle bump in the rear fenders.  Running boards were eliminated.

Initially, in the senior series, neither a Coupe or Club Sedan were offered.  The Commander 11A came only in two 4-door body styles, the Cruising Sedan and the Land Cruiser.  The Cruising Sedan had rear-hinged “suicide” rear doors, with the rear vent windows in the body.  The Land Cruiser had front hinged rear doors with the vent windows in the rear door.  Land Cruisers also had special front and rear fender trim strips, more bright trim around the window, and a rear seat folding center arm rest.  The Cruising Sedan did not have these features.  Early Commanders came in two trim levels, Custom and Deluxe-tone.  The Custom trim was the basic trim, the Deluxe-tone trim option included two tone paint with color-keyed interiors, standard white wall tires, DeLuxe steering wheel, and more interior bright-work.  The Deluxe-tone trim option was first introduced in mid 1940.  The accent color on 41 Deluxe-tone model two-tones was on the top and between the belt moldings.  The ladder was called a “color belt.”  A contrasting color belt on Custom models was available for an extra $5.

This year the air intake, for the optional Climatizer was moved to a vent door on the left side of the cowl.  A matching fresh air vent door was added on the right side.  In 1947 the purpose of the two vent doors were switched.  These vent doors were used on all Studebaker cars to 1957 and on Hawks to 1964.  Also new for 1941 was a separate heater core for the Climatizer windshield defroster system.

In the spring of 1941 Studebaker introduced a new trim series called the Skyway.  The exterior Skyway trim is considerably different then Custom and Delux-tone models.  Obvious difference was the lack of the dual side moldings.  Other features included, rear fender skirts, front fender top lamps, bright metal trim around the windows, trimmed rear fender stone shields, and rocker panel trim, extending onto the fenders.  The Skyway models were mainly painted two-tone.

The other new introduction for the spring was the Sedan-Coupe ( F body), a delayed replacement for the 1940 Club sedan.  The Sedan-Coupe featured a forward slanting B-pillar and a curved one-piece windshield, the first of its kind for a mass production car.  It was offered in Custom (F3) and and Skyway (F7) trim.