hatchback or sedan??

[gaf99]

can't decide which one to purchase. test drove the hatchback and really liked it EXCEPT for not have a tach. oh well. any advise on which one is more fun to drive (zippy, room, etc.)

[Racer X-8]

the sedan!

wait...



btw, you don't need a tach if it's an automatic. was it an automatic?

[Blenjar]

hatch will always have more parts than sedan!!!
hatch FTW

-- Blen

[Typer73]

I own a liftback, test drove a sedan... they both seem equally "zippy" for a small car. It comes down to what do you want to haul? People or stuff? If the answer is people, opt for the sedan with the 4 doors; if it's stuff you can't beat the liftback. It has more than enough room for whatever you want to carry with the rear seats down (& imo, it's cuter than the sedan).

[Blenjar]

I wouldn't say cuter..its sexier..
AND you can give it an agressive look..
Take a look around in memberlist...few sexy ones..

-- Blen

[Kaotic Lazagna]

i own an S model. it's good enough to haul people and their gear. the only thing that i don't like about it is that aftermarket parts are not as accessible as the liftback.

if you're looking to modify your Yaris, then opt for the liftback. if you carpool and/or have stuff to move, get the sedan.

[St_G]

The LB certainly doesn't seem to be rarer among this board's users...but I do have to admit that I still haven't passed another one on the streets in Memphis, while I've seen three sedans. Actually, I may have seen more that three sedans, but only three have caught my attention. The sedan kinda blends in with...well...every other economy subcompact. If it weren't for the family resemblence of the front end between the LB and the sedan, I'm not sure I'd be able to pick one out from a lineup of Kias, Hyundai's and Saturns.

[mutatio]

trust me, after having researched and seriously looked into the various sedan and hatchback options on the market the Yaris sedan stands out in the subcompact niche as being very well designed w/ good lines. the Saturn Ion is very outdated and the Kia and Hyundai models often look like completely different design teams frankensteined the car together. :S the '07 models for the latter companies r starting to change that, but when i first started looking, yikes!

arguably, the LB looks common, just like an oversized smartcar. ;) but how many of those do we see in the US?

[Jem_hadar]

For me, I like the hatchback for looks!

But I really fucking miss all that truck space of a sedan!

(it's not often (ever?) that I have my rear seats down... so I dont really benefit from the 'extra storage potential' of a hatchback)

[Impresive-G]

I would say hatch. It's the actual Vitz just USDM. The sedan yaris is just the new echo. Plus the hatch has more compartments then the sedan.

Liftback FTW!

[mkaresh]

Originally Posted by Impresive-G

I would say hatch. It's the actual Vitz just USDM. The sedan yaris is just the new echo. Plus the hatch has more compartments then the sedan.

Liftback FTW!

I like hatches, but with kids would need four doors.

The sedan is very different from the Echo, much longer and lower, for much better proportions.

[Impresive-G]

Originally Posted by mkaresh

I like hatches, but with kids would need four doors.

The sedan is very different from the Echo, much longer and lower, for much better proportions.

I have two sisters ages 9-13. They don't mind and they shouldn't complain. It's my car they should live with it. Same way your kids should. Don't worry. Your not forcing them to get in. If they think so, just tell them they are rolling a cool hatchback. lol Save your kids the embarrassment. LOL!

[mkaresh]

Originally Posted by Impresive-G

I have two sisters ages 9-13. They don't mind and they shouldn't complain. It's my car they should live with it. Same way your kids should. Don't worry. Your not forcing them to get in. If they think so, just tell them they are rolling a cool hatchback. lol Save your kids the embarrassment. LOL!

My kids (4,6,7) are rolling in a cool hatchback. But it's one with four doors. With a Mazda badge.

I like four-door hatches, and would like to see more of them in the U.S. And yet Ford just killed theirs.

[ddudley]

Get one of each!

[mutatio]

Originally Posted by ddudley

Get one of each!

indeed. if we had the money we'd be sorely tempted!

[Racer X-8]

Our liftback has more rear seating space than my other two cars. Our two fully-grown sons prefer it over the other two cars anyway, that's our family vote. The other two cars are four-door (well, the one has small "freestyle" doors for the rear) and they are both lower to the ground. So, for us anyway, our Yaris liftback IS the people mover hehe. The rear-center seat position hasn't been used yet. I've gotten in the back a few times. It's so much higher-up than my other cars, it was practically effortless - minimal contorting or slithering required.

And when it comes time to haul something, it takes me 5 seconds to yank the rear deck thingy and drop the rear seatback. Boom - enough room to haul 4 fully loaded yard trash bags! We use a blanket sometimes to protect things, depending on what and how much we're hauling. Sure, it doesn't satisfy our need for a pickup truck, but it hauls a whole lot more than our other two sporty sedan-types, a whole lot easier too to get things in and out thru that huge rear liftback door. When we have to haul bigger, or nastier stuff, we have our friends and family who are more than happy to show us why we should have bought an F150. (I suppose that wasn't politiaclly correct, but, to each - his or her own, and buying a pickup truck is not very high-up on our priority list.)

[Jem_hadar]

Originally Posted by Racer X-8

And when it comes time to haul something, it takes me 5 seconds to yank the rear deck thingy and drop the rear seatback. Boom - enough room to haul 4 fully loaded yard trash bags!

Ahh, I guess this is the real reason i cant (dont) take advantage of the storage potential of the Yaris. I dont have to haul lots of stuff, its just more so for my weekend long or 3-4 days trips to Toronto, where I have a couple bags/suitcases of clothes, plus a cooler, plus pillows and blankets, etc.

And when in the city I'm often moving ppl around with me, or picking ppl up in Newmarket or Richmond Hill who are always coming to Toronto with me, so we have all their stuff too.

At times like these when I'm carrying people and lots of luggage is when a 4-door sedan would be so much more useful and handy!!

[Racer X-8]

Originally Posted by Jem_hadar

Ahh, I guess this is the real reason i cant (dont) take advantage of the storage potential of the Yaris. I dont have to haul lots of stuff, its just more so for my weekend long or 3-4 days trips to Toronto, where I have a couple bags/suitcases of clothes, plus a cooler, plus pillows and blankets, etc.

And when in the city I'm often moving ppl around with me, or picking ppl up in Newmarket or Richmond Hill who are always coming to Toronto with me, so we have all their stuff too.

At times like these when I'm carrying people and lots of luggage is when a 4-door sedan would be so much more useful and handy!!

I agree 100%. Last summer, the four of us were trying to go in the Yaris liftback to Disneyworld, with a soft luggage carrier on top. I tried to strap that sucker down well. God, it was struggling so hard, and the luggage carrier set-up a wall up-front from the wind trying to lift it. The whole car shuddered from the wind buffeting, had to floor it to get up hills, and it was getting worse and worse. So, after trying and trying to fix the problem, we went back home, threw the bags in the trunk of the Inifiniti G20T, got in and hit the road. Man, what an improvement. So, yeah, four ppl with baggage, yeah.

But it was only that one time. I suppose some ppl might have that problem more often though.
(Anybody know of a luggge carrier that works?)