Scion xB News

Scion is using the 2010 model year to make a few meaningful upgrades to the xD 5-door hatchback .

Is facebook going through an inevitable mainstreaming that is moving young consumers to look for the next new thing in social networking? College and high school users have declined in absolute number by 20% and 15% respectively in six months, according to estimates Facebook provides to advertisers.

DAN SCANLAN/The Times-Union Rounded angles abound, but the 2010 Cube is still a two-box design with a funky face , asymmetrical right rear window design and lots of people room inside what Nissan calls a "casual lounge'' on wheels.

When the Honda Element and Scion xB debuted in 2003, Americans quickly embraced the type of small, boxy cars that for years had been popular in Japan, with both cars becoming big sellers for their brands.

July 3, 2009: The Toyota Scion brand is offering HD Radio in the 2010 xB model, and the automaker is promoting that fact on its website, with a gallery of images of the new Alpine Premium Audio system with HD Radio and a PDF outlining the HD technology.

When I'm listening to the radio and I happen to hear a song come over the airwaves sung by Ringo Starr as a solo artist, I always say to myself, "He was really an underrated Beatle." In other words, he's much better than he ever got credit for.

Up-And-Coming DJs And Producers Caspa, Toddla T, Reso And 12th Planet Rework The Celebrated Hip Hop Emcee's Track "Get It" TORRANCE, Calif.

Vacaville resident Spiros Kakos, 21, sits in the brand-new Toyota Scion xB that he picked up Wednesday after his name was chosen from among 1,000 entrants in a regionwide random drawing.

The 2010 Scion xB is a capable compact people mover and cargo hauler that packs a decent underhood punch.

When the Scion xB subcompact made its debut in 2004 , America got its first real taste of undiluted Japanese eccentricity.

Toyota 's Scion division revamped its so-called "urban utility vehicle," the xB, for the 2008 model year with only a handful of changes as 2010 models get ready to roll.

There are few things that are always in style. The only two I can think of are youth and money.

If the name of Kia's new car -- the Soul -- isn't memorable enough, the look of the five-door, small wagon surely is.

We are navigating the narrow streets of colonial-era Old Town Alexandria to test the mettle of the Ford Transit Connect in the cramped urban environment where Ford says its microvan will deliver commercial customers from high fuel costs and parking headaches.

Over time I test-drive just about every model that motor-vehicle manufacturers sell.

To all of the pheromones excreted to attract buyers to new cars, add whimsy. The 2009 Nissan Cube fairly reeks of it, from its asymmetrical styling to the simulated wave pool in the headliner.

It's not a car; it's a 'mobile device.'That's the word from Nissan about its new Cube subcompact crossover utility vehicle, which is now arriving at dealerships as a late 2009 model.At a recent media ride-and-drive program for the Cube in Miami, the Japanese automaker said that its own marketing surveys found that the main target audience for the ...

I know it seems unlikely to those who grew up in places where cars rust, or if you're old enough to have looked askance at Japanese cars when they started rolling out on American soil in larger numbers, but there was a ToyotaFest this past Saturday.

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.

Special to the Star-Telegram Americans already have heartily embraced the extreme boxiness of Toyota's Scion xB, and now two similar vehicles have joined the xB in the marketplace – the 2010 Kia Soul and Nissan Cube.The Soul arrived first, going on sale in March, but the Cube is right on its heels.While the two are quite different in their ...