Motoring Discussion > Next Yaris a Mazda? Miscellaneous
Thread Author: Old Navy Replies: 18
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 Sat 13 Feb 16 09:25 
 Next Yaris a Mazda? - Old Navy
I initially read about this a couple of months ago, to be built in the US and Brazil. I doubt if they will do more than a superficial restyle of minor bits and pieces when the new European Yaris is released in 2017(?).

www.ctvnews.ca/autos/2016-toyota-yaris-sedan-toyota-and-mazda-team-up-to-deliver-a-winner-1.2609151
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 Sat 13 Feb 16 09:28 
 Next Yaris a Mazda? - sooty123
Well hopefully they'll sort out the looks, and in a hatchback form I'm sure it'll look better.
Never sure why little cars are popular overseas in a saloon model? They don't have much more space and they ugly as anything.
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 Sat 13 Feb 16 11:39 
 Next Yaris a Mazda? - RichardW
Gawd that's fugly..!!

Saloons more popular than hatches just about everywhere except the UK - no idea why!!
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 Sat 13 Feb 16 12:05 
 Next Yaris a Mazda? - sooty123
They work on big cars, but on small cars they look horrible.
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 Sat 13 Feb 16 19:34 
 Next Yaris a Mazda? - PeterS
Wasn't there a saloon (and possible coupe?) version of the Seat Ibiza many years ago... I though that looked okay?
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 Sat 13 Feb 16 12:13 
 Next Yaris a Mazda? - Runfer D'Hills
I don't know why either, but a distant memory from my childhood comes to me. It was when my dad decided to buy his first Volvo ( 144 ) and he mentioned that he'd maybe go for an estate this time, having had a series of saloons ( not Volvos )

My mother was dead set against the estate idea despite the fact that he would have found it much more useful. Her argument, thin though it seemed to me as a 12 year old, was that saloons were seen as much more upmarket.

He took the line of least resistance and bought another saloon but it stuck with me for years to be puzzled ( and slightly disappointed ) by her view.

I wonder if that attitude still pervades in some countries?

Folk are odd sometimes aren't they?
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 Sat 13 Feb 16 12:35 
 Next Yaris a Mazda? - Paul Robinson
Well they don't make an estate S Class Merc, estate 7 Series BMW or estate Audi A8, so perhaps the logic is, by association saloons are more upmarket?
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 Sat 13 Feb 16 12:38 
 Next Yaris a Mazda? - Runfer D'Hills
Odd though isn't it? The very thing that makes an estate more useful, is being big.

I try not to think about it.

;-)
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 Sat 13 Feb 16 19:32 
 Next Yaris a Mazda? - PeterS
Audi did do a 'concept car' A8 Avant for some motorshow or other:

tinyurl.com/hfj74sr

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 Sat 13 Feb 16 11:23 
 Next Yaris a Mazda? - Auristocrat
Would have thought that the next Asia-Pacific/European Yaris will use Toyota's modular platform (TNGA) as used in the new Prius.
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 Sat 13 Feb 16 12:28 
 Next Yaris a Mazda? - Runfer D'Hills
I think one of the ugliest cars ever was the old Vauxhall Nova saloon. An old guy who worked in the same office I used to had one. Pale blue thing, and he was called George. Wore a Trilby hat when he drove it.

I can't see a small saloon without assuming that the driver is called George and would probably wear a Trilby if his wife let him.

Edit- George was an accountant.
Last edited by: Runfer D'Hills on Sat 13 Feb 16 at 12:29
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 Sat 13 Feb 16 12:50 
 Next Yaris a Mazda? - NortonES2
Late FiL had one, in eyesore red. For him, the ideal car had a huge boot, never mind the looks. It was echoingly empty 99% of the time.


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 Sat 13 Feb 16 12:53 
 Next Yaris a Mazda? - Runfer D'Hills
Was he called George and was he good at sums?
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 Sat 13 Feb 16 12:54 
 Next Yaris a Mazda? - sooty123
Was that the weird two door one? Or am I imagining that one?
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 Sat 13 Feb 16 12:58 
 Next Yaris a Mazda? - Runfer D'Hills
c1.staticflickr.com/9/8144/7611699716_cd21e68c96_b.jpg

This is like George's one...
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 Sat 13 Feb 16 13:05 
 Next Yaris a Mazda? - sooty123
Nice.
Actually i think it was the escort that had a 2 door estate. That was odd looking, popular with painters and decoraters i would think. A friend used to have one, god knows why.
Last edited by: sooty123 on Sat 13 Feb 16 at 13:05
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 Sat 13 Feb 16 13:09 
 Next Yaris a Mazda? - WillDeBeest
Wasn't the Allegro estate only a two- (or three-) door too? Perhaps something to do with the body not being strong enough for any more holes.
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 Sat 13 Feb 16 13:12 
 Next Yaris a Mazda? - Runfer D'Hills
My uncle, my father's brother, bought an Allegro when they first came out. I can remember my dad trying to find something nice to say to him about it but sort of giving up and deciding to say nothing much about it.
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 Sat 13 Feb 16 19:23 
 Next Yaris a Mazda? - Old Navy
I recon it will be another badge engineered car from the world wide generic parts bin. Lots of them around.
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