What am I am i going to do with just 6 extra cubic feet. Its not enough for a body.

It's all in the folding. 6 cubic feet is bigger than some of our entire trunks. And just think of the MR2 people.

I (on a personal level) can't stand hatchbacks. I dont know what it is about them that turns me off. I know that there is more space in a hatchback, but then again the extra space amounts to about 6 cubic feet. What am I am i going to do with just 6 extra cubic feet. Its not enough for a body.

You can fit much larger objects in a hatchback because after folding the seats down and remove the rear compartment cover you can go all the way to the top of the car with cargo.

Yeah I got a 32" maybe 36" (cant remember) TV in the back of my Acura Integra....in the box. the hatch came about an inch from closing but thats what string is for.

its very new and probably badly spelt it is basically the golf based MPV

probably badly spelt it is basically the golf based MPV

The Touareg seems to be available in the US. IIRC it's named after a nomadic tribe in the Sahara.

/Michael

The Touareg is a different beast entirely, it shares its platform and some of its engines with the Porsche Cayenne. The MPV that he was taking about is the Touran

We don't get the jetta in over there, I assume it's the Bora with another name?

We don't get the jetta in over there, I assume it's the Bora with another name?

Yeah. The Jetta has bombed so many times in the UK that I guess a new name was a good plan.

It won't work though, people in the UK buying a Golf sized car just don't want to give up the practicality that the hatch gives you over the Jetta/Bora. The only reason I can think of for buying one over a Golf is if you regularly needed to lock things out of the way in the trunk/boot.

Speaking as a non lesbian ex owner it is indeed the Bora over here, it's also been called the Vento, but it don't matter what it's called it's never sold here.

needed to lock things out of the way in the trunk/boot.

But that doesn't stop the theiving buggers getting at it.

I see a lot more people driving Passats, maybe they go from Golfs and bypass the Bora/Jetta straight up to the Passat.

But that doesn't stop the theiving buggers getting at it.

No but it makes life a little harder for them. They have to force the lock on the boot rather than just smashing a window.

Also, some specialist insurance policies require you to have a boot. For example I looked at getting specialist insurance for my camera gear so I could leave it in the car. Looking at the details neither of our cars were acceptable to the insurers. The Fiesta failed because it was a hatchback, the MX5 failed because of the remote boot release in the cabin (which I didn't want to disconnect). So I don't leave my camera gear in the car...

But that doesn't stop the theiving buggers getting at it.

When the thieving buggers broke into my Primera (a saloon), which had a split rear seat kind of arrangement allowing access to the boot, they just broke the window and went looking in the boot via the fold down seat.

Fortunately, I'd emptied the car earlier in the day, so there was nothing in there worth stealing.

Little shits.

That's exactly what happened to a hire car I had whilst on site once. They didn't get anything as I'd just emptied the car to start work. They didn't even nick the copy of Midnite Vultures by Beck that was on the passenger seat. One of the other guys wasn't so lucky, he had his laptop and his bosses own video projector. So I guess he got a kicking once he got back to the office.

The MPV that he was taking about is the Touran

Aha... That's one I've not noticed / recall hearing anything at all about here, though it is available...

/Michael

The Jetta has bombed so many times in the UK that I guess a new name was a good plan.

Are we talking about the same Jetta? - I can't see it having that image here.
It's one of those cars that you have to wonder: How come you see so many battered old ones knocking about, when you can't ever remember seeing a new one? Do Volkswagen have a vehicle weathering department, where they kick failed models out to back street used car dealers?

Incidentally, when Maserati was not a division of Fiat, didn't they have a Bora?

when Maserati was not a division of Fiat, didn't they have a Bora?

Looks that way

/Michael

Mmmm - Maserati Bora.

What a gorgeous car. Almost as foxy as the Lamborghini Miura

Bora

Strange choice really: The first three letters of boring, linked to the 1st letter of the alphabet!
Unfortunately, the only Maserati Bora I ever saw in the flesh, was seriously written of on the York Road out of Leeds.

Easy, it's german, and more affordable then a BMW. It's kind of a status thing I think "german" = "upwardly mobile"

A friend of my brother's had one in his garage, entirely stripped to component pieces, each lovingly packed in grease. I just couldn't afford it.

Well, I could have bought it, but it would never have been rebuilt.

A friend of my brother's had one in his garage, entirely stripped to component pieces, each lovingly packed in grease. I just couldn't afford it.

What? A Jetta?

"Bora" is a north wind in Italian, but, unless somebody knows better, has no meaning in German, so why do they use it?

Scirroco is also a wind.

What am I am i going to do with just 6 extra cubic feet. Its not enough for a body.

Well, in that case, there's always the roof. Behold the infamous Lumber Jetta:

Its not enough for a body.

Well, dismember it and pack it in plastic bags, it should then fit fine...

pca

(Damn. One post too late to be 60000th)

Prop it up in the front passenger seat, until it begins to smell, it'll deter break-ins.

it'll deter break-ins

And you'll be allowed to use the car pool lane, too.

"Bora" is a north wind

Scirroco is also a wind

And so is "Gulf". Obviously VW hired a dodgy translator.

you'll be allowed to use the car pool lane

When I lived in Houston I had two manequins for the car pool lane. Baton Rouge must believe that traffic jams are therapeutic.

And so is "Gulf".

Unless I'm misunderstanding you, Golf is the German for Gulf.