Toyota working on Yaris-sized 7-Seater?

Toyota working on Yaris-sized 7-Seater?

Filed under: Economy, Minivans/MPVs, Hatchbacks, Toyota

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]Toyota working on Yaris-sized 7-Seater? originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.



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I dont have imagination... But if they make the engine compartment hell-a-smaller and minivan's dont really have a trunk, it might be possible less the "limo-like" legroom.

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Iv driven a yaris and it feels like (does not mean its true) that my AE82 has more umph power than the yaris I test drove... I wonder how they will haul 7 people with its engine.

they probally be using the 2.4 engine

suuuure... Now that's a thought. 3door yaris with rebuilt engine doing 200hp with RWD. Sounds like a monstrous track/autocross car.