Trunk space?
 

Obviously not buying this for lugging stuff around, but it would be nice to be able to bring home groceries or put in a few bags for a long weekend trip. I am assuming that the trunk space would mimic the same amount of volume as a 370z or RX-8 at about ~7 cu ft? Or will that be significantly decreased due to the rear seating?

I've wondered about the same thing. Basically this thing is a Miata with rear seats squeezed in somehow. I think the only remedy for the probable lack of trunk space is to make it a liftback. You hear that TOYOTA!? LIFTBACK!

I would actually prefer a liftback. :)

Me too!

I would also hope the rear seat would fold down for storing any big long items etc..

i'm not too worried about it. as long as it can fit a couple suitcases, it'll be enough.

Yeah it would be very convenient to be able to fold the rear seats down, however wouldn't that lessen the lateral rigidity of the rear a little? Unless of course they add a rear strut bar.

lol.... I don't think it would come up with a good space! but I'd go for hatch/lift back if they made one :D
I still remember how I felt happy when I put so many stuff on my ae86 trunk (cusco 7pt rollcage, greddy type-s coilovers, exhaust, trd itbs, links,,,ect) and my friends were like @_@ when they so those parts all inside my 86 (but I never installed the itbs thu as no tuner was free to tune it)

but yah, if they offer one, i'd take it over the coupe (one thing I really wish is also the flip up lights) but guess it won't happen :(

Flip up lights are so 80s. :barf:

oh come on, no love for flip-ups?


I think anyone that had a car with them has a little place in their heart for flip-ups. I know they add weight and complications, but it just feels so bad ass popping your lights up. (not asking for them in the FT)

Space for four mounted tires would be nice for obvious reasons.

they said with the rear seats folded down, you can fit 2 golf bags.

YE U HEARD IT!!! 2 BODIES!( height is limited)

2 golf bags.. ontop of each other lying down? Or 2 golf bags sitting up next to each other from the back of the backrow seat to the front 2?

Well I will have to admit when I was a kid I thought they were cool in the 80s and early 90s. However, now when I think about them I see some old car with one up and one down. Not to mention an added motor/servo to burn out and the added drag from the flip ups.

as long as you can fit a cooler in the back, im good

I believe the 2nd one......

2 seats so 2 golf bags, 1 per each side i guess.

i just need room for 2 bodies.... err i mean bags.

My Dad used to own this wee black fabric bodied Vintage car.
For one of the advertisements It said you could fit a wee man in the boot.
Would have had been a bloody small man or a contortionist to fit in it lol.

I'm glad I don't go golfing. Don't have to worry about this shit.


Heh

I think hatches are cool since you really get so much cargo room for free, not that you really need it, but it's nice to know that your car can be practical if it needs to be :O If it's like RSX style back it looks pretty sleek and has less aerodynamic drag too.

... The trunk is large. It can fit 5 bodies in it ... I guess that is the way to be measured for trunk space in NYC. Huh?

Although I like the sound of it.

For track freak like me, I want it liftback, so can put track only tires in the truck... but coupe trunk is fine as long as you can fold em

I love the pop-ups in my NA Miata. Half the time they don't come up all the way, but idc. You won't ever see them in the US due to safety nannies. Somehow having headlights that pop up is a danger to pedestrians. Whether that means hitting them (which would injure them regardless) or not seeing them (which defeats the purpose of headlights then), it is a dumb rule.

I'd like someone to work on a pop-up light design in a shell that keeps them aerodynamically stable at speed. Both the Miata and the C5 Corvette get huge amounts of lift when driving at night. It gets scary if you go over 70.

Really?

my MR2 doesn't have any issues driving over 70mph at night.

so I was going through my Photobucket cleaning stuff up and found this pic. Well it's MkI and not the MkII, but I'm pretty it's gonna be pretty close trunk design

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/n...a05/china1.jpg

How did you manage to ninja this?! lol

I went to one of Auto Show and fake as one of worker. You see the guy laying down? Yeah, that's me checking if they have boxer engine under the hood. :bellyroll:

Put the joke on the side, that pic was posted yr or so ago from one of the member (can't remember which member). Just happen to save that pic to my folder. This is what happens when you been around in this thread for LONG time. LOL

That man lying on the floor does not look like you .....

I believe this was the sneak preview picture in the Beijing auto show. The Toyota folks are prepping the mk I before the show. The thingy inside the trunk was the fuel cell, I think. There was no fuel caps from either mk I or II. And I think the rear seat for mk I cannot be folded down.

Just from this picture, the trunk space is probably running about 300 liters (11 cu ft) with no or a very small spare tire. It looks like it is a bit larger than the one in the NC miata, and that is what i am basing my guess.

Thanks for finding that picture ichitaka05!

Goose-neck hinges are crappy and space consuming but they fit the price point of this car and they are light. The trunk volume looks do-able for most things, from what I can see.

Shouldn't be too tough with rear seats removed and sliding one tire out at a time from the passenger side door. Not terribly fun though. Of course if you want to put 255 wide Hoosiers on the car, they're not likely to fit 4-across in the rear seat area.

A liftback would be much better.

Honestly, I know I'm disillusional but, I'm still crossing my fingers for that hatch version. That looks like a Ferrari FF. I know that's a fan made render but it would be nice to have that. It's a funny thing I've owned hatches before and most of the time I never really use the hatch, but when I do have to it's damn useful fitted 5 people and all of our weeks luggage in that Civic Si Hatch.

Now if there a FT hatch it would be popular amongst the club members because all the hatch owners would go to the track with the coupe owners to help hold their tires. I'm guessing that they're not going to do a fold down back seat with a lift back....so we're stuck with a normal only somewhat useful trunk.

As long as it fits two golf bags, at least enough for a weekend getaway with another person. Well I don't see a problem, but still I want that Hatch O___O

Chill my friend~ I was just trolling. :)

Yes, you're correct, it was preview pic of the BIAS.

As for the rear seat not folded down. Current concept prob not, but never know. They might make it into the final production ver. It's pretty common feature now days cars

Talking bout these ones?
MkI ver
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/n.../gsfticopy.jpg

MkII ver

Yup those ,probably a long shot but maybe possible,
subaru does the wagon,hatch but that's steping into wed territory

I would totally be all over a hatch version if they made one. But I am a hatchback kind of guy. With production issues hitting a lot of industries in Japan do to the disaster, I'm not sure how easy it would be for Toyota/Subaru to have two versions going; standard car and hatch version. Unless Toyota went with the standard version and Subaru took on the hatch version.

Every indication is that Subaru will go with the car version. But we can still hope.

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/attac...7&d=1298899483

In my ideal world, this car would carry a liftback (nothing against the hatchback but liftback looks nicer.) with the 50:50 split fold down rear seat. Why 50:50? because this is a 2+2 car, there is no third person for that 20% in the middle. 50:50 split should be sufficient, unless you want to poke a hole in the middle to store snowboard or some sort. In fact, scratch that, use the roof for the snowboards.