Expect: Walla Car Trunk Guide

What do you know about the trunk of your car? Which vehicle configuration has the most useful trunk and what they have to offer. This is how you choose the trunk that suits you

Expect: Walla Car Trunk Guide

In the beginning there was no trunk, and the vehicle was chaos and full of objects thrown everywhere. Really, in the early days of the automobile, there was at most some small basket or compound where objects could be placed. With the use of cars, manufacturers have begun to install a kind of rails or pallets similar to the roofs we see on taxis to allow anchoring of cargo crates for longer trips. Towards the end of the 1920s, a number of manufacturers had already started offering unified trunk boxes for the car, and about a decade later, car designs began to include this extension in the car's lines and not make it look like a crate attached to it.

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Fiat Ardita from 1934 more or less the time when trunk cells became an integral part of the car

Trunk Cell Guide (Photo: Manufacturer, Manufacturer Website)

But many years have passed since, in modern cars, the trunk is much more than a surface to put objects in. There are still those, cars whose trunk is really a box that is in the back. But on the other side, there are more and more cars today, with their trunk offering much more than storage. Starting with 12-volt sockets that allow for a seashore pump or lighting connection until you finish setting up the tent, they have bag hooks with the little things you don't want to be scattered on the trip, compartments for dirty objects and hard rubber flooring to place a heavy load. The new Aston Martin DBX can be ordered with a dedicated pet dog pad in the trunk.

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Trunk Cell Guide (Photo: Manufacturer, Manufacturer Website)

A shape for you

But not only is what inside the trunk affected how useful or efficient it is, the car configuration itself has an effect on the trunk as well. About the volume, its structure, its ease of loading and more. In general, you can divide the types of regular cars most people have into three major configurations. Sedan, hatchback and station. The sedan has 4 doors (two front and two rear) and three "compartments" engine compartment, passenger compartment and trunk. For the hatchback and station wagon 5 doors (two front, two rear and one fifth for the trunk), the differences between the hatchback and the wagon will be their length, with the wagon continuing these tens of inches backwards and exploiting them to increase the trunk volume.

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Trunk Cell Guide (Photo: Manufacturer, Manufacturer Website)

In the past, before realizing how dangerous it was in the event of a back injury, several makers such as Saab, Volvo, Austin, Peugeot and others even offered a station configuration that contains two seats for children facing the direction of travel. For the discussion of vehicle configurations, we will include the jeeps and crossovers in the hatchback configuration. Another configuration is the non-widespread liftback, the best example of which can be found in its Skoda Octavia fifth door but the appearance is like a sedan.

Skoda Octavia, a trunk for glory. Also in the structure, in both the interior design and the accessories

Trunk Cell Guide (Photo: Manufacturer, Manufacturer Website)

Each of these configurations has objective advantages and disadvantages. If we take the same car sold in the three versions, like Toyota Corolla for example. The hatchback configuration has its smallest trunk with 361 liters, the sedan configuration is 471 liters and the station with 596 liters. The volume itself should add another statistic - ease of use.

The load compartment opening and the key size that his door creates are very important components of the trunk usability. For sedan cars most often open a relatively narrow claim derived from the door structure, it will also usually have a higher threshold. The combination of the narrow opening with a deep compartment often results in a situation where objects that are at the depth of the trunk are inaccessible.

Open trunk in Hyundai i30 station. The silver rails are intended for fixing anchoring partitions to objects

Trunk Cell Guide (Photo: Manufacturer, Manufacturer Website)

In the hatchback and station formations, the fifth door opens a very large square door that significantly facilitates the loading of objects into the vehicle. As a bonus, they often allow the second row of seats to form one huge compartment, which limits the sedan's configuration due to the car's structure. The configuration that best combines the two approaches is actually the same less common Liftback as we mentioned in Skoda Octavia. With a huge trunk opening like station wagon and hatchback cars on the one hand and very large volume in normal external dimensions on the other.

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What's right for you?

But other things are involved in the buying considerations. There are countries where the sedan configuration is considered more prestigious, in Israel for years Mr. Israeli was almost unwilling to hear about the hatchback or stationary as a family despite their suitability and benefits. Why? Because this hatchback looks small, and what of a sudden our vehicle will be smaller than Komoshevitz? What is more successful than me? And his wife with the servis in the middle of the living room, what does she think to herself? Well, look at their son with hair like some batik.

Station? A station wagon was considered a car of refurbishment for years, then of settlers, in fact probably a stage where most of the Subaru DL in Israel was a sticker of Yesha here and the people with the Golan on each side of the bumper. Despite a brief rash of station cars at the beginning of the decade with the Hyundai i30CW Kia Sid Station, Ford Focus Station and others, today, although they will have trouble admitting it, most people have found the solution in the Jeeps and crossovers that offer exactly the same trunk features of the Station and Hatchback cars.

In summary, buying a new car? Looking for used? Into your plethora of considerations such as fuel consumption, safety, reliability, value-added and storage - add a look to the trunk, too, which is far more than the portable storage room where your gym bag raises dust.