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"We hadn't seen the vehicle until some of our product planning people visited Japan late last year," Breen says. "They actually hadn't seen the spare wheel in the boot at the time, and we had not realised how much it intruded into the area, and we realised that, apart from cosmetics, it just wouldn't provide useable luggage space that you'd need to fit a full-size overnight bag and things like that.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but I think this is the only change that ToyAU made to the car for our market. And they even sent people out to inspect the car but didn't open the boot..
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Breen said a space-saver spare tyre was not available for the Toyota 86 [GTS]. "That option wasn't available to us," Breen says. "I can't tell you why. All I know is that the option for us was the tyre repair kit."
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Aka they must have had a bigger profit margin on the GT. Shoulda/coulda just made it an option on all factory orders full/space saver/none.
Personally I'm happy the full size is gone, disappointed there's no space saver, but not too fussed, will just install one myself as I originally planned to do.