Toyota working on Yaris-sized 7-Seater?
If you've been distressed by not being able to buy a clown car at any local lot, Toyota has news for you: the company is working on a Yaris-sized seven-seater. That is odd enough to make us ask "What?" and "Why?" in several languages. Even better, though, is when Toyota engineer Hiroki Nakajima says "We can do it, and give limo-like legroom in the back." We aren't sure what Nakajima-san's idea of a limo is, but the current five-searter Yaris doesn't have limo-like room for the people in the front, much less the back and the cargo area... The next Yaris is due in 2011, and recent rumors suggest the use of Toyota iQ's packaging to make it more roomy inside. Toyota has also said it planned to build an MPV on blueprints of the iQ. While a repackaged Yaris with iQ clever bits would be an impressively spacious subcompact, we simply can't see it making for a limo-like minivan.
[Source: Auto Express]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
BLS 9:07AM (12/19/2008)
The Toyota Clown Car coming soon. Saved by Zero of the Toyotathon of Toyotathons.
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Flashpoint 9:24AM (12/19/2008)
LOL - is today April 1st?
You can put as many seats in there as you want, but, unless your selling it in a 3rd world country, the Yaris only seats 4 comfortably.
nighttime__ 9:40AM (12/19/2008)
@ Flashpoint.
Shut up.
moyoi 5:40PM (12/19/2008)
Us is one of the heftier countries, Flashpoint tells no lies, try your own suggestion.
Gregg 9:17AM (12/19/2008)
They can do it. They made the iQ just inches longer than the smart, and added one and a half seats in the process. The Yaris is several feet longer than the iQ, so making another row (one with limo legroom) shouldn't be a problem. We should have the option of a subcompact size people hauler if they want to build it. Vehicles for the most part are just too damn big.
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zamafir 9:40AM (12/19/2008)
Yup, old news, when they released the iQ they stated in damn near every interview they were capable of using a lot of the space saving techniques in the car to provide a 7 seater the size of the yaris. This was months ago. Oh well.
ronEbear 11:39AM (12/19/2008)
@BoneHeadOtto
Meh, close enough(nor really). Truce? (not really)
CamryFan 9:19AM (12/19/2008)
So.... Toyota have worked out how the Tardis works then? They really are on the cutting edge.
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geo.stewart 9:29AM (12/19/2008)
So, does that make this car the ReTardis?
mmstowes 9:19AM (12/19/2008)
I'm curious as to the reliability of components that small with the stresses of a regular 5-7 people in the car. The Honda Stream is a 7-seater about the size and weight of a Civic and is pretty tight everywhere but the front seats for the average American. I can't imagine how tight a Yaris-sized 7-seater is going to be, but I doubt they'd wanna bring it here.
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Pengwin 9:30AM (12/19/2008)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, seats 7.....ants.
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ronEbear 9:32AM (12/19/2008)
So, according to all comments so far about how Americans just can`t fit into anything that`s not an SUV I can assume that: Having sex with an American woman is like riding a moped: Fun until your friends find out? Fun until the springs wear out? Fun until you need to re-fuel (feed) her?
FATTY FATTY BO-BO LATTY!
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BoneHeadOtto 9:51AM (12/19/2008)
Where is this non-american from. I picture some dork sitting at his computer in finland, wearing yaks wool, isolated in a log cabin in the frozen tundra, typing this comment.
btw - who mentioned fat american women. Its the guys that are biggest in america and certainly more so than the japaneese engineers that claim you can get lemo room in a 7seater yaris.
ronEbear 9:54AM (12/19/2008)
WOW MAN!! What is your job, if it is not mind reading/psychic ability then you should IMMEDIATELY QUIT. You could be making tons more cash using your extraordinary powers of perception by correctly identifying a blog posters:
Personality
Location
Current clothing
Type of dwelling
Type of climate.
mmstowes 10:04AM (12/19/2008)
I actually have experience with the Stream and for a 7 seater, it's tight for me. There's more cargo room than the Mazda5 (which has practically none with all seats up), but the trade-off is less legroom for passengers in the second and third rows. I'm 6', 200lbs with long legs and a fairly long torso.
Other than that...I don't understand your gibberish. Nobody commented on how "fat Americans" were, just how "small" Japanese vehicles made for the Japanese markets are because the Japanese as a whole are generally small framed short-height people. There are exceptions to every rule, but regardless, I wouldn't expect this car to come to the states. Maybe they'll do the same thing with a Corolla-sized vehicle though.
ronEbear 10:16AM (12/19/2008)
@mmstowes
Gibberish? I am 100% sure that I was writing my comments in the English language. I understand that you might not have understood, I should have written my comments in proper American.
Here`s how it should have been written:
LOL! CAN U Believe that them got-damned chinamen in Japan want to build a compact car that fits seven people? LAWLZZ OMG. Mabe it`ss fit 7 grains of RICE LMAO OMGWTF. It`s compact allright, after I drive over with ma truck, my truck nutz will totali tea-bag it! CORN! BEEF!
happy_penguin 10:36AM (12/19/2008)
Piss off, t*at.
BoneHeadOtto 11:33AM (12/19/2008)
@ronEBear
Finland ... Canada... location guess was close enough :)
ronEbear 11:41AM (12/19/2008)
@BoneHeadOtto
Meh, close enough(nor really). Truce? (not really)
The Luigiian 1:50PM (12/19/2008)
"WOW MAN!! What is your job, if it is not mind reading/psychic ability then you should IMMEDIATELY QUIT. You could be making tons more cash using your extraordinary powers of perception by correctly identifying a blog posters:
Personality
Location
Current clothing
Type of dwelling
Type of climate."
So you're saying you are indeed a 17-year-old in Finland wearing yak's wool and sitting in a cabin in the frozen tundra writing this? I'm not hearing confirmation that you're not.
Besides, who doesn't like fat chicks? A little high maintenance, sure, but they're cuddly like teddy bears. :)