IF NECESSARY, you may be able to get by with a longer feed wire. Make sure it is well insulated for RF, since voltages will be very high on some frequencies, even with 100 watts or less. Try and keep the wire at least 4 cm away from metal or other conductive surfaces. If the feed wire runs parallel to a nearby conductor, it will act like a piece of coax, not good since the capacitance to ground will often have a bad effect on the ability of your tuner to tune on some bands. If you need to run the wire through a hole in the metal, or cross a metal brace, you might be able to get away with this. Probably there is little useful radiation from any feed wire inside the vehicle, or even outside down low, so keep the wire short so most useful radiation is from the whip antenna.
Rick KL7CW