Category: Scion

2014 Scion tC at the NY Auto Show: “Hey Guys, Remember Me?”

2014 Scion tC at the NY Auto Show: “Hey Guys, Remember Me?”

It seems like most of the automotive world has largely forgotten about the Scion tC since the release of the incredible Scion FR-S. It’s understandable, I mean the tC a good little car that competes within an enormous segment of the market: small, sporty, inexpensive, front-wheel-drive economical coupes and hatchbacks. I don’t even want to [...]

Rendering: Toyota GT86 Shooting Brake

Rendering: Toyota GT86 Shooting Brake

If you judge a car’s sticking power by the amount of speculation, modifications, renderings, and overall “chit chat,” Toyota’s managed to create a knock-out with their new GT86 sports car. Who wouldn’t love it, anyway? Not only is it Toyota’s first real sports car in over a decade (nearly two, really,) but it’s a damn [...]

Top 5 Cars that are Finally in the States

Top 5 Cars that are Finally in the States

If you a purchaser of the latest in high-tech items but do not welcome the overnight line-up at an electronic store, you are perhaps very familiar with the process of waiting a special, desirable product. A case of days or weeks in many instances, there is also times where a specific item could be delayed [...]

2013 Scion FR-S 6-Speed Manual Review

2013 Scion FR-S 6-Speed Manual Review

When Toyota introduced the Scion brand in 2002, their goal was to develop a brand that would attract young buyers into the Toyota family. And when Akio Toyoda Toyota’s CEO took over a few years ago, he infused the brand with a new spirit. Toyoda loves fast cars and is a certified test driver for [...]

Toyota GT-86 Convertible To Launch At Geneva Next March?

Toyota GT-86 Convertible To Launch At Geneva Next March?

For sports cars, there is a traditional launch playbook. Coupe comes first and then a convertible later to boost interest and sales into the car’s model cycle. The Scion FR-S and Subaru BRZ are still riding high on a lot of pent up demand, but Autocar is looking ahead to the convertible model. Toyota originally [...]

SEMA Names Hottest Car, Sport Compact, Truck, and 4x4s for 2012

SEMA Names Hottest Car, Sport Compact, Truck, and 4x4s for 2012

The annual SEMA Show, as you may know, is all about customization. Taking a car and making it your own. And it’s an enormous industry. Unfortunately, it seems like every year that passes, vehicles become less customizable. Look at the American musclecars of the 60s and 70s for example. They were so simple – anybody [...]

Toyota Sales Back Scion iQ EV Program, Focuses On Plug-Ins

Toyota Sales Back Scion iQ EV Program, Focuses On Plug-Ins

Thanks to a need to boost Corporate Average Fuel Economy scores and California regulations, Toyota has to produce some pure electric vehicles. It didn’t have a vehicle program ready though, so it turned to Tesla for the RAV4 EV. With the Scion iQ EV though, Toyota branched out on its own and announced that 2012 [...]

Scion Announces 2013 tC Release Series 8.0

Scion Announces 2013 tC Release Series 8.0

In Scion’s ever-expanding lineup of special edition Release Series (RS) cars, they’ve just released details and pricing on the eighth RS version of the tC coupe – not surprisingly called the tC RS 8.0. The RS 8.0 is the second Release Series since Scion introduced the second generation tC in 2010. The first, the tC [...]