The GREAT Debate: Is ANYONE Really Going To Miss Scion...?

I don't want to get off on a rant here but if you ask me it's about time that Scion died a loud and painful death. For years it's been a company that's produced lackluster product after lackluster product and it just didn't seem to connect with...anyone.

OK, so the company released the first-generation tC to a slew of young buyers — or at least their parents who bought the all-new car for them. But, to be straightforward, these cars were always for goobers. Either they were driven by far too many females that suffer from vocal fry and seem like the would fit in right at home on SNL's "The Californians" skit, or it was an Affliction T-shirt wearing clown sporting a pair of white framed sunglasses and a white belt.

These poor souls couldn't determine a good product if it came along and smacked them in the face. These are the people still texting with green bubbles, if you catch my drift.

Thinking back to the company's product portfolio, I can't think of one good vehicle that lived under the Scion umbrella. I am sure a lot of fan boys will say "What about the FR-S?" and I will quickly retort "What about it?" The car was a joint venture with Subaru and it wasn't particularly cool either unless you wanted 170 horsepower on narrow tires so posers could pretend to know what they were doing before they crashed into a tree or pole or another car or, worse yet, a person.

Maybe I've said too much. Perhaps I haven't said enough.

The only shame is that it sounds like from the latest reviews the company may have produced one decent vehicle, the iM. There's just one problem: it's sayonara for Scion.

PUGPROUD - 2/4/2016 8:26:39 AM

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No!

MDarringer - 2/4/2016 8:34:04 AM

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Not a soul. Talk to the owners of Toyota/Scion dealer and you'll hear that customers stayed away in droves and that the Scion franchise was a money pit. The cars themselves were models that weren't attractive to American tastes and their current line up is badge engineered.

222max - 2/4/2016 10:17:14 AM

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I always thought Scion was a useless brand and that, if anything, Toyota should have spun Prius into a separate brand of eco-vehicles.

iamdabest1 - 2/4/2016 1:37:57 PM

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i think only people who had one will miss them. its not like the fr-s is a bad looking car. if i was 16-23 id be pretty happy with one.
my first car was an oldsmobile cutlass ciera. it was trash, that doesnt mean i don't kinda miss the brand.

MorePower - 2/4/2016 4:20:03 PM

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I hope it was not in that Oldsmobile 3-Day old Dogshit brown

TomM - 2/4/2016 4:04:22 PM

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There are a number of Scion dealers who spent a lot of money to produce Scion facilities - and support the brand - that Toyota simply let down by not producing product. I wonder if Toyota is going to do something for them - since most are also Toyota Dealers as well.

And the people who actually bought Scions - will suffer an economic loss to a now orphaned vehicle. Toyota made scion to get the younger generation hooked on their brand - and in actuality will probably alienate more people than they hooked in.

MDarringer - 2/4/2016 10:43:58 PM

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The obvious solution is to put Prius, hydrogen, and EV cars in one spot.

MorePower - 2/4/2016 4:22:53 PM

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A toyota by any other name is still a toyota.

I will not miss the brand, but I have to give the xB its due. For a brief time, that little car/box truck moved the industry and had that late 80s/early 90s Nissan Hardbody mod scene.

MBguy - 2/5/2016 1:06:25 AM

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@ Author of this article.

While the FR-S isn't much for raw power, it's not 170 horsepower. It's got 200.

For God's sake ... this is a car website. Please check the facts before you spit.

W208 - 2/5/2016 8:46:06 AM

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Pretty hard stat to fk up when there's only one engine option.

MrEE - 2/5/2016 8:52:13 PM

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Scion for many years was only second to Lexus in reliability, imagine many satisfied customers will make their way happily to Toyota models located in the same dealership. The Saturn like set pricing didn't really catch on and with gas so low, there wasn't a good case for additional small vehicles.