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Originally Posted by theunchosen
So if your clientele doesn't care at all how much room is availalble under the hood(and they don't) why would you spend a dime providing room?
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First off, from a purely stylistic perspective, so you don't build an ugly fat-butted car?
I don't think most of the technical reasons really hold that much water, either. Take that Mitusbishi picture a couple of posts back. Doesn't look like the fat butt provides much more usable space at all, does it? Same with most such designs - on top of the fact that most of them have trunks, a design which yields much less useful space than a hatchback.
Beyond that, the most extreme FB designs seem to be "performance" cars, where the back seat is usually an afterthough. Now maybe if the car is rear-engined, there's a point, but OTOH Porsche manages to build rear engined cars with fairly skinny butts.