Scion xA News

Some may remember when "boxy" was an automotive insult, hurled at Chrysler K-cars and old Volvos.

This week's ride is a 2006 Scion tC owned by William Daubert of Wilkes-Barre. Scion, produced in the United States by Toyota, is a relatively new brand of cars - it was created in 2003 as an effort to appeal to younger car buyers.

It all started out innocently enough back in 2004, when Toyota brought over its Japanese-market bB and called it the Scion xB .

The iQ Concept works. On one level it works because it's just audacious enough to attract the young buyers to whom Scion has always catered a ' the demographic that found appeal in the brand's early xB and xA despite their small size, modest power and distinctive styling.

Will Scion sell the iQ here? That's up to the youth of America to decide. Toyota already sells the iQ, a tiny urban runabout, in Europe and Japan, but this is the first time the company has acknowledged a desire to sell the car here in America.

The xB from Toyota's Scion brand is a kind of stereo on wheels, aimed squarely at Japanophile Gen-Y buyers barely old enough to drive.

Spore. Beer Pong. Flight of the Conchords. Superpoking on Facebook. Any of these sound remotely familiar? If not, it's because you're old and unhip.

The success of the original Scion xB was, quite frankly, a bit surprising. Looking back to 2004, there wasn't a huge demand for small cars in the U.S., let alone funky, rolling boxes honed for Japanese tastes.

Heads up if you pilot a Hummer or Scion tC. ISO Quality Planning, a company that helps insurance companies in identifying risk, has come up with a list of the most heavily ticketed vehicles on our highways.

Scion, after having a promising start back in 2004, is currently facing a downturn in sales with 12.

Scion, the division of Toyota best associated with trendsetting twenty-somethings, will be getting a fourth model in two to three years , according to Scion vice president Jack Hollis, who was quoted in ...

According to a recent study, this truck is more likely to get a traffic ticket than any other car model.

I've been back in the automotive market, involuntarily. The week before Christmas my wife's 'round-town' car was smacked in the front end by an errant elderly driver.

A while back we told you about China's Great Wall Motors and how they planned to get into the small car market, namely by Xeroxing the Scion xA and xB.

When Scion first introduced the tC sporty coupe, we wondered how it would fit into a range of vehicles aimed at younger urbanites.

With Toyota's youth-oriented Scion brand about to enter the Canadian market, a closer look at its "flagship" model is in order, and a tiny bit of history to piece things together.