FTO Boot and back seats

[St3vo]

Hey all.
Just wondering im about to buy my first FTO
but i was just wondering whats the story with the boot is it big and to the back seats drop down?

Thanx

[Myfeckin FTO]

Hey all.
Just wondering im about to buy my first FTO
but i was just wondering whats the story with the boot is it big and to the back seats drop down?

Thanx

Boots a good size - fairly similar in size to a medium sized saloon car - but the back seats do not fold so long items will be impossible to carry in the boot.

If you want a good looking, quick, excellent handling car - buy an FTO
If you want a roomy car with a good boot - buy a volvo estate.

[St3vo]

lol volvo estate!!
I had a Bomex honda integra a few months ago sweet car and the boot was cool.I was just worried coz im a drummer and i was wondering will i fit a drum kit in the car! lol

[kevinod]

Hey all.
Just wondering im about to buy my first FTO
but i was just wondering whats the story with the boot is it big and to the back seats drop down?

Thanx

Hey,

no, and no! FTO isn't the ideal choice if you're looking for practicality. Well the boot size itself isn't too bad, but the opening won't cater for anything too big.

I play guitar (bass & acoustic), and the hard case physically will not fit into the boot. It just about goes across the back seat. I've yet to try my speaker cabinet, how that'll work I don't know! I can see some car swapping happening for going to gigs.

Re the back seat folding down, it's something I have in mind to try to do sometime, but it looks like it would involve a new frame for the back seat (basically just foam), hinges at the bottom and catches then at the top.

Kev.

[Myfeckin FTO]

lol volvo estate!!
I had a Bomex honda integra a few months ago sweet car and the boot was cool.I was just worried coz im a drummer and i was wondering will i fit a drum kit in the car! lol

You will fit the drum kit - but I'd imagine a fair bit of the kit will be going on the back seats.

[kevinod]

lol volvo estate!!
I had a Bomex honda integra a few months ago sweet car and the boot was cool.I was just worried coz im a drummer and i was wondering will i fit a drum kit in the car! lol

Beaten to it again by MFFTO!

[Myfeckin FTO]

Beaten to it again by MFFTO!

Kev - You'll have to learn to type with the other 9 digits.

[St3vo]

Hmmmm yea i dont mind shoving stuff in the back seat.
Thanx for the help lads

[kevinod]

Beaten to it again by MFFTO!

Kev - You'll have to learn to type with the other 9 digits.

I do!! my replies are just too dam long!

On things on the back seat, anyone see 5th gear last night? Men & Motors or Home + Leisure or some channel around there... Tiff Needell and that nice Vicki Butler-Henderson. They did a test of a 30mph crash with stuff in the car and saw what happened, did it a few times.

Scary stuff, anything on your back window shelf torpedos all the say to the front, anything on the back seat pummels the back of the front seats. Only anyway safe place to put stuff seemed to be on the floor behind the front seats, it fairly well stayed where it was.

One of the tests they did was a toolbox in the boot. The back seat was one of those split folding ones - 1/3 & 2/3, it came through the gap and the tools in it went everywhere. Another test they had a DIY setup, a kitchen sink and some mdf boards, back seats folded down like you're bringing them home from woodies or somewhere. Front seats got pushed way forward, the sink would have nearly decapitated some one and the mdf lodged into the back of the seats.

Heh, see what I mean about long replies!

Kev.

[Myfeckin FTO]

....On things on the back seat, anyone see 5th gear last night? Men & Motors or Home + Leisure or some channel around there... Tiff Needell and that nice Vicki Butler-Henderson.....
Kev.

Hmmmm! Vicky Butler-Henderson - an attractive petrolhead chick with attitude - what more could you want from a woman?

BTW - thanks for reminding me - I'd better take the 3 sets of steak knives I got for Christmas off the back parcel shelf.