Toyota Kills Off Scion as a brand

[Mibz]

The most fun I ever had at the Calgary auto show was fitting 5 people plus bags into an iQ.

[ae92gts]

Originally posted by schocker
...Kill kB, rename FR-S to GT86, iM to matrix. Not sure what they would do with the TC though, toyota has no sporty FWD vehicle currently so it might make sense to keep this. iM would also be pretty interesting if it had the tc engine instead of corolla engine.

I always wanted a AE86, owning a GT86 would be siiicckk!! lol

[heavyD]

Originally posted by Mibz
I'd be curious to see how many base Civic owners end up getting Si's. I feel like every teenager who had a car ended up falling in love with whatever the sportiest version of their car was. Having a TRD Corolla feels like a win/win. Name recognition, brand loyalty, and can you imagine the article we'd write if it were actually a good car?

I would imagine the amount of Si's sold is minute relative to the amount of regular Civics.

[klumsy_tumbler]

Originally posted by Mibz
Having a TRD Corolla feels like a win/win.

They did... ish. Until they killed the Corolla XRS (2012 was the last model year). Bigger engine, exhaust, and much beefier suspension made it a much different car than the rest of the corolla line up.

[Mibz]

Originally posted by klumsy_tumbler
They did... ish. Until they killed the Corolla XRS (2012 was the last model year). Bigger engine, exhaust, and much beefier suspension made it a much different car than the rest of the corolla line up.

Yeah, the XRS doesn't count. At all, haha.

[relyt92]

Originally posted by killramos
Thank god we won't have to look at that god awful scion booth at the auto show this year.

Now who is going to have a DJ playing??

[AE92_TreunoSC]

I won't miss them, I sometimes miss the old days of Toyota's 4/4/4 formula.

4 Cars (tercel, corolla, camry, cressida)

4 Trucks (hilux, land crusher, van, 4runner)

4 Sports cars (mr2, celica, supra, corolla GTS)

[Sugarphreak]

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[BokCh0y]

I'm so happy they did this

It's about goddamn time.

Originally posted by Mibz
I think making a sporty Corolla like the Civic Si is their best bet. Ditch the tC altogether.

It sounds like they're ditching the tC.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/toyota-scion-1.3432191

[nicknolte]

Not too surprising considering that they introduced the iA as the Yaris Sedan for us Canadians.

[OTown]

Makes sense. I'm with the majority on here - surprised it took this long

[redblack]

Scion could never compete with beige Corolla sales

[A2VR6]

Hopefully Toyota continues on with a similar racing contingency program to the one they had with Scion for amateur and grassroots racing. It was actually quite good.

[01RedDX]

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