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    2010 Audi A5 Sportback: A Look Inside The Hatch

    2010 Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback Coming To America, Five-Door Style
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/26/09

    In reply to 2010 Audi A5 Sportback: A Look Inside The Hatch
    Again... this.




    Shit's still cool.

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    Image of dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity
    06/26/09

    In reply to 2010 Audi A5 Sportback: A Look Inside The Hatch
    They are using calipers for their measurements? Where is the micrometer? German engineering quality must be slipping...
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    Image of DonLuc DonLuc
    06/26/09

    In reply to 2010 Audi A5 Sportback: A Look Inside The Hatch
    I almost didn't come here, thinking that this was an advertisement for Audi.


    Now that I'm here, though, I'm glad I came.


    By the looks of it, there is only slightly more cargo space advantage over a sedan. I don't understand these things at all. The same functionality of a sedan without the good looks. Weren't they supposed to add something nice instead of take it all away?

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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    06/26/09

    @DonLuc: er, A5 comes only as a coupe at the moment, and speaking as an Audi owner, I can tell you that although the trunks are quite commodious, the openings are small enough to reduce overall utility.
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    Image of drewdrawshashtags drewdrawshashtags
    06/26/09

    @Ben Wojdyla: Absolutely. I don't see this as looking worse (hatchhater!), and the utility of a hatch is huge over the A5's standard trunk opening. Audi probably would've made the A5 like this outright if Americans didn't have such a hatch stigma.
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    Image of DonLuc DonLuc
    06/26/09

    @Drew draws in French, in Russian:


    Whoa whoa whoa...I'm not a hatch hater--I drive an Explorer after all--it has a HUGE hatch--haha. It's just that this particular model seems to open up very long, but the space inside is still rather short vertically like a sedan.


    And I love the Avants--probably the only wagon I'd own.

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    Image of drewdrawshashtags drewdrawshashtags
    06/26/09

    @DonLuc: My point is, if there's all that space behind the back seats for a trunk, but the opening is so small you can't access it, why not a hatch? With true coupé style and practicality to boot, what's not to love?


    Don't think I don't love the idea of a shooting brake too, but that's going to have a seriously limited audience, n'est ce pas?

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/26/09

    @Ben Wojdyla: It's the Cyclone effect. Murilee told me after I submitted a couple photos of a '68 Fairlane 500 fastback that while he owned his Fairlane and Cyclone, he kept a broomstick with a hook on the end so he could fish things out of the huge trunk through the tiny opening.
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    Image of TheGuinnessTooth TheGuinnessTooth
    06/26/09

    @DonLuc: Without the good looks of a sedan? Since when have Audi sedans been their good looking models?
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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    06/28/09

    @TheGuinnessTooth:


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    Image of It's a Camaro It's a Camaro
    06/26/09

    In reply to 2010 Audi A5 Sportback: A Look Inside The Hatch
    What I don't get is why this is an A5? Isn't that supposed to be the A4's coupe sibling? Shouldn't this be the A4 Sportback?
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    06/26/09

    @It's a Camaro: Because it's supposed to be a "coupe"? (?)
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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    06/27/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: Even though a coupe is only supposed to have two doors...


    Damn Germans marketing people, always messing up my s**t.

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    Image of yisoo yisoo
    06/26/09

    In reply to 2010 Audi A5 Sportback: A Look Inside The Hatch
    lego rear bumper ftw
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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    06/26/09

    @yisoo: Really expensive, high precision Witte fixturing rear bumper. It's like Lego for wealthy grown-ups.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/26/09

    @smalleyxb122: All I can picture is the drive cage of a Chenming server tower.


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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/26/09

    In reply to 2010 Audi A5 Sportback: A Look Inside The Hatch
    Meet the new BMW 5-Series hatch, now with 75% less fugly.
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    Image of SundaySunday SundaySunday
    01/30/09

    In reply to 2010 Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback Coming To America, Five-Door Style
    Sorry, but in my opinion: Sportbak > Sportback.


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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    01/30/09

    @SundaySunday: NX!
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    01/30/09

    @Mad_Science: It's the unintentional Japanese Rampage!
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    Image of SundaySunday SundaySunday
    01/30/09

    @Fluffy, Pushbroom: That's right. It has the added Jalop quality of being the easiest to "camino-ize". Remove the back and fold down the rear seat.


    As I think of it, they'd be more like a BRAT, since you could get them with T-tops.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    01/30/09

    In reply to 2010 Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback Coming To America, Five-Door Style
    "I'm a tiny X6!"
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    Image of Sportwagons, haulin' stuff and haulin' balls Sportwagons, haulin' stuff and haulin' balls
    01/30/09

    In reply to 2010 Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback Coming To America, Five-Door Style
    Not bad, but the Lexus IS 300 SportCross got it way more right. Bring it back, Lexus.
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    01/31/09

    @Sportwagons have hustle AND bustle: If I'm not mistaken, one could only get a 5-speed in the IS300 sedan, and only after its second year. My dad had an '01 and even with the auto it's the most fun car I've ever driven. I would rock a manual SportCross so damned hard.
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    Image of mytdawg mytdawg
    01/30/09

    In reply to 2010 Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback Coming To America, Five-Door Style
    I kinda like it. Me and Mitsubishi still aren't really on speaking terms but I kinda like it.
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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    01/30/09

    In reply to 2010 Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback Coming To America, Five-Door Style
    Mitsu: You need to fully embrace the wagon. This "sportback" 5-door nonsense will get you nowhere.


    Wagon-fearers (aka fools) still won't like it, but it doesn't really offer the dog/bike hauling room that a real wagon brings.


    The net result is like a girl who's kinda chunky, but not quite filled out to be called curvy or voluptuous. No thanks.

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    Image of Timtoolman, sporadically speaking Timtoolman, sporadically speaking
    01/30/09

    @Mad_Science: Sportback is another word for hatchback, which got a bad rep in the 80's. I say welcome.


    PS kinda chunky= big boned.

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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    01/30/09

    @Timtoolman, now with power tools!: The point being that I couldn't replace my WRX Wagon with one of these.


    The utility's just not there.

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    Image of theeastbaykid theeastbaykid
    01/30/09

    In reply to 2010 Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback Coming To America, Five-Door Style
    More attractive than the Impreza. (Which may be a little bit like "more attractive than Rosie O'Donnell.")
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    01/30/09

    In reply to 2010 Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback Coming To America, Five-Door Style
    Wait-- you can't get a proper manual in the Ralliart? Either I misread that, or I don't know what the world's coming to.
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    Image of seoultrain seoultrain
    01/30/09

    @A strolling player can't find Waldo: Yeah, dual-clutch auto only.
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    Image of IH_kumicho IH_kumicho
    01/30/09

    @seoultrain: dual clutch only, and probably still 2k more than the WRX. once Subie upped the power and kept the price under 25k, it sort of killed any interest I had in the Ralliart...
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    01/30/09

    @IH_kumicho: Unfortunate that I really can't get behind the look of the new WRX. The Lancer, on the other hand, took a number of steps in the right direction.


    I just want to know why I have to choose between 69 horses and a damned clutch pedal. That's shitty.

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    Image of Jeb_Hoge Jeb_Hoge
    01/30/09

    In reply to 2010 Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback Coming To America, Five-Door Style
    LIKEY and screw the image. It'll only stick to you if you 1) are close enough in A/S/L to the demographic and/or 2) have little enough self-control to delve (read: wallow) in their shit. Be an adult. Rise above! Fight! WIN!
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    Image of Timtoolman, sporadically speaking Timtoolman, sporadically speaking
    01/30/09

    @Jeb_Hoge: Really, why should anyone, above the age of 18, give a shit as to what anyone else thinks of his choice of wheels?
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    01/30/09

    @Timtoolman, now with power tools!: Babes, man, Babes. Ya gotta look cool. :p
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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    01/30/09

    In reply to 2010 Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback Coming To America, Five-Door Style
    Actually, I think these are kinda spiffy.

    Get one in a nice cocoa brown with a manual 2.4.

    Should be a fun useful ride at reasonable cost.
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