Toyota's website shows more head, leg, etc room for the sedan, but perhaps they've mangled the numbers for marketing purposes.
Your friend with lower MPG in the 5 speed sedan is doing something different from your friend with the automatic liftback. The manual should beat the automatic if conditions and driving style were similar. |
The two door didn't fit me well. Neither did the Prius. Couldn't get the seat to go far enough back for my legs. The 4 door Yaris was better, got to drive one when my Corolla was in for alignment problems.
I think the only car I have had to move the seat foreward on, that I can remember, was the Del Sol. regards gary |
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where do you find the drag coefficient numbers at edmunds? |
Either your friend with the sedan mt is driving in the city a lot or he's doing something wrong.
My first week of having the car, I made 45 mpgs. This is with no hypermiling skills. I have a sedan 5spd. It wasn't until later that I found out about hypermiling through a Brian, a member of Yarisworld and Cleanmpg. He has a hatch back and I'm trying my best to chase after his numbers. Many of the top mpg drivers of Yarisworld are chasing after his 50- 55 mpg records. |
all i know is from my experience with the interior place. i need the leg room for my long legs and head room for my big head. and they fit all to well and with space to spare in the two door my Brother has then the sedan my friend has. oh btw, they both drive highway and both have 45min to a hour drive to work. I talked with my friend again and i screwed up on the tranny. Forgive me all. But his sedan is a automatic tranny, for some reason i thought it was a stick. Sorry :o :o :o
it wouldn't be my first time screwing up info here. (bad hard drive in the head) but toyota has posted incorrect measurements on their cars before. but hey nobody is perfect :D btw the 2 door yaris has more head room then the sedan 38.8/36.7 compared to 39.4/37.9 in the 2 door yaris |
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EPA testing is done on a dynamometer. They capture exhaust emissions and 'weigh' the CO2 to calculate fuel usage.
About it being cheaper and easier to make them have the same wheel base. It doesn't matter because it's FWD and two different chassis. If they were RWD then having two sized cars means more drive shafts and more cost. Since everything is up front on this car it's easy to make the different chassis work with the same engine. Like the Rav4 v6 and the Avalon v6. |
Tell you one thing about the sedan - I drove my friends and when I turned around to look out the rear window I banged the back of my head on the handle above the door . . . it's a little tight in there compared to my xB.
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Oddly, fueleconomy.gov doesn't say anything about it, but I did find something. https://www.imakenews.com/alanbyervol....cfm?x=b11,0,w Quote:
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The Civic Sedan and Coupe are the same way. The sedan is 106.3 and the coupe is 104.3. the same suspension can bolt to both(usually a little different because of weight) it's just that they are moved a bit. Plus, the liftback design lends itself to structural integrity issues that the sedan doesn't have to deal with. Ford has a line for the Mustang coupe and the Mustang convertible chassis. Same car essentially but just removing the roof means the chassis needs redesigned so it doesn't twist to pieces when the car is floored. In that example however, the wheelbases are exactly the same but I don't know if we can lend that totally to drive train manufacturing simplicity as the focus coupe and sedan share the same exact wheelbase. I think the focus might be just a simpler design approach though because the coupe isn't a lift/hatchback design they can just make the door bigger and move the b-pillar back to make a 2-door like honda without a lot of work. |
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