figolovechild

Leon FR CR 170TDI
Sep 12, 2011
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Glenrothes
Does anyone know if the overall size of the 5 door Ibiza is bigger than then 3 door? The reason I ask is that my Cupra is in the garage the now and I have been giving a 5 door 1.6tdi courtesy car for the moment. Lots of things I have noticed so far. The first being that the boot space seems to be a lot bigger than my Cupra. My Cupras boot space is tiny. My battery is inside the spare wheel in the boot for some reason which looks like an after thought as they have polystyrene inserts to raise the floor bed to give the battery clearance??. The tdi however has the battery in the front and no spare wheel. I don't know if it is because I have a battery and spare wheel in boot that makes it look so much smaller than the 5 door or if its because the 5 door is actually a bigger car? Anyone know any better??

Another thing is both have similar mileage but my Cupra rattles like mad inside (prob to do with stiffer suspension). Also what I prefer is when I push the accelerator from stand still the car actually drives unlike my Cupra which seems to have a delay which is quite scary when at junctions to be honest. Don't know if this is a characteristic of the car or a fault? Anyone else experience this?
 
Probably just to piss me off when I picked up my Cupra & realised it had a minute boot.

Or to improve the weight balance to the rear of the car (Skoda did it on the vRS by putting weights in the bumper)
 
the ones with the battery in the front do have a fair bit more lift off oversteer. But this is good so meh.

Battery in front ftw!
 
My FR 2.0TDi has the battery in the boot and it has made the space shockingly small, you need to remove parcel shelf and fold rear seats for even medium sized items. Very poor IMO, the boot on my FR TDi mk4 was much bigger.
I did read in a magazine review that the battery was put in the rear for weight distribution. If it helps reduce understeer than it can't be a bad thing, as long as you can live with the smaller boot space.