hi read a few builds from the US and i saw that a couple people said they have rare rear seats?? which got me confused as i'm in Aus.
reason why was i'd love to get rid of my rear seats for rear bins if thats what the US came with

 

Yes, USDM market has only rear bins. The seats you might see in back have been imported.

 

They may look cool to some folks, but take it from a owner(92 JDM) I'd rather have the bins. If you every want to relocated.... say your battery, the trunk is now your only option.

 

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

I had bins and MUCH prefer the seats. The bins are a big hard plasticy thing, and are SUPER space inefficient compared to the room they take up. I find the rear seats to be a better place to store "stuff" than the bins ever were. Of course, you cant store your battery in them, but backpacks, coolers, jackets, etc etc sit back there much better. It doesn't hurt that someone can also sit back there if absolutely required. (say their car breaks down and they need picked up? )

If you guys wanting bins saw inside of the storage "bin" you'd understand what I mean. For some reason the bucket that stuff sits in is tiny compared to the available area underneath the bin.

 

Yeah i just like the look of the bins. If you can ever find the whole set it goes for about $300-400 over here in Aus. Would be about the same in delivery though I guess to try swap someone from the US to Aus and I would t know how to work out a swap mite be risky.

 

The bins also weigh a bit more than the rear seats. When I swapped mine out I was surprised.

 

UK version also only came as a 2 seater and i dont mean grey market ones.

 

pretty sure it was an option but no one bought into it nor do i think the salesmen tried to sell it with the option.

the 2nd gens had the option as well but i would guess that between 1-3% of all FCs purchased were bought with that option. that is why they are rare even for the FC but the FCs had about literally 50 times more cars produced in that 5 year span. so if an FD was bought with them then it is quite rare. auto FDs for example probably make up about 5-8% of the FD population for example and would be more than twice as common.

this is just based on my personal experience and guesstimates so don't take it literally, i have not seen an FD with rear seats yet.

my FC TII was special ordered with manual steering, virtually every other i have seen it was changed by the owner to manual.

 

Is it feasible to remove the bins and carpet the previously hidden area?

 

one of my customers did, looks a bit more roomy without the bins and backrest area. he did it mainly because he's like 6'4" and needed the extra space.

 

They were never an option in the US. The cars were never certified as anything but a 2 seat car, the jspec seatbelts probably wouldn't have passed as they don't have a real lap belt.