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2010 Suzuki Kizashi GTS: Decent-Sized Trunk

Nashville Auto — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:35:31 +0000

That Easter visit I wrote about yesterday was actually for a few days, so I had the Kizashi loaded up with stuff. You can kind of see the loaded trunk in that first photo, but here's a close-up. The Kizashi's trunk is listed at 13.3 cubic feet, which is 2 or 3 cubes smaller than the norm. Even so, I was pretty impressed with what I could fit in here, with the trunk being sufficiently wide and tall enough for most items. The only problem I encountered was the trunk hinges, which do take up space when you close the trunk lid.

Brent Romans, Senior Automotive Editor

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2009 BMW 750i: Enough Trunk Space for Just About Anything

Nashville Auto — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:36:39 +0000

Would you look at the size of that trunk? I mean, that sucker is huge. Maybe it's just the petite size of the girls clothes that News Editor Toepke left in the trunk, but still there's clearly room to spare in there.

Now, there are still some problems. I mean, there are small cargo nets on the sides, but what about stuff that's loose in the middle? Where the net for that?

And the liftover height isn't all that low. The lid doesn't close on its own either. Petty quibbles maybe, but this is a $90K car, shouldn't have to ask for anything at that price.

Ed Hellwig, Senior Editor, Inside Line @ 27,579 miles

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2002 Chevrolet Corvette Z06: Easy Trunk Workaround

Nashville Auto — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:38:00 +0000

We've been intentionally limiting how often and how hard we drive our longterm 2002 Corvette Z06 while we sort out its detonation issue, which is why posts related to the silver sports car have been few and far between.

Nevertheless, the handful of editors that have driven it have all muttered about its trunk refusing to pop up more than a millimeter or two when you press the trunk release. This makes the lid darned near impossible to open fully without prying it up with some kind of implement, which none of us dare attempt.

I found a way to make the decklid pop up all the way to a grab-able height without resorting to such cavemen techniques, though. The workaround involves a highly sophisticated fluid mechanics phenomenon that I demonstrate in the video above. Gotta make sure those windows are rolled all the way up for it to work.

Jason Kavanagh, Engineering Editor @ 42,430 miles.

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