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Old 03-23-2012, 04:36 PM   #1115
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Originally Posted by tripjammer View Post
If it was a hatch it would weight more and be more ugly. Hatches are not befitting of a real sports car! LOL!
They also don't make for nearly as rigid a platform, which is why the engineers went for a trunk (see the engineer interviews elsewhere). Greater platform rigidity allows engineers more design and tuning leeway to extract maximum handling and road feel from the vehicle.
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