Scion News

The picture you're looking at with the Audi was taken on flat land. The Aud R8 LMS above was riding a track with an incredible 60-degree banked corner. Now that we have your attention with that tidbit, here's your unusually present update of race cars simply too awesome to ignore. We're ...    Read more

On the latest episode of Head2Head, our colleagues over at Motor Trend pit the newest Ford Mustang against the all-new, much-hyped 2013 Subaru BRZ. At first it sounds like a strange pairing. The two aren't exactly competitors as the 2013 Mustang employs a V-6 engine to do the heavy lifting, ...    Read more

Somehow, the term "Playstation generation" has stuck on us Gen Y folk. And somehow, Scion has boldly attempted to emblazon itself as the brand of young people, handing out indie hip hop sampler CDs at car shows and offering Bazooka subwoofers as dealer-installed options. It wasn't too big a leap for ...    Read more

It was a great month for Honda, Subaru, Toyota and Mazda, which all posted either double-digit growth or the best month ever in the company’s history. Which is kind of like the difference between finding a quarter in your pants pocket on laundry day and winning the Stanley Cup. The ...    Read more

Last week, we drove the hot, new 2013 Scion FR-S , the front-engine, rear-wheel drive sports coupe collaboration between Toyota and Subaru. It's more than just pretty neat, we concluded, and now our office mates at sister magazine, Motor Trend, have released the newest video for its Ignition series starring ...    Read more

Scion has high expectations for its new sports coupe, the 2013 Scion FR-S, and according to a recent report in Wards Auto, Toyota's youth-oriented brand could see sales of up to 20,000 FR-S's per year. Jack Hollis, vice president of Scion, projects that dealers could sell up to 10,000 models ...    Read more

Don't bite the hand that feeds you, our parents may have told us. Youth-oriented Scion is too cool to listen to hoary old advice from our platitude-spouting elders, which may explain why the cars that the brand launched with, the xB and the xD's predecessor—the cars that built Scion, literally, from ...    Read more

The 2013 Scion FR-S is one of the most anticipated cars of the new Yyear, and Cartel Customs has just finished a one-off convertible roadster version, the first of its kind. The Cartel FR-S Speedster will do parade laps during the opening ceremonies of the Long Beach Grand Prix this ...    Read more

We don't know what to make of the SR group's latest customization, and maybe that's the point: "the objective behind Project Pryzm was to create a car that would leave you speechless." To that we say "Mission Accomplished." But we may have spoken to soon. The Angry Birds look-a-like pocket rocket ...    Read more

You've probably noticed a swelling of online ads for the 2012 Scion iQ micro car lately. That's because Toyota doesn't want its smallest car to tank in quite the same way the Mercedes-Benz's Smart brand did. Or initial sales for the Fiat 500. Or . Scion believes it has the answer ...    Read more

Toyota has increased the price of some of its most popular models, including the Prius and Camry lines. The ever-popular 2012 Prius models will see a standard bump of $150, raising the price of entry to the most basic Prius to $26,550. The 2012 Toyota Camry, a venerable all-star in ...    Read more

When Toyota, the parent company of Scion, announced it was going to make an all-new sports car, the web was set abuzz. When details emerged that this would be an enthusiast-driven, rear-wheel-drive 2+2 coupe, a flurry of inquisitiveness and speculation overtook the conversation. Up until know we've had all the ...    Read more

The 2013 Subaru BRZ and its twin, the 2013 Scion FR-S, are the most hotly anticipated sport coupes to hit the scene in years. Promising a fun driving experience with a low price and decent fuel economy, they promised to answer many an enthusiast driver's dreams. The verdicts have slowly been ...    Read more

Today is an important day for a very special breed of automotive enthusiasts, the kind of lost souls who wax poetic on the virtues of weight distribution and balance, and "pure driving pleasure." For those people, today marks the end of a long seven-year wait for what promises to be ...    Read more

The Toyota GT 86 sports car is the first new Toyota vehicle in more than a decade that, at least here in the states, has car enthusiasts excited. To be sold in the U.S. as the 2013 Scion FR-S and the Subaru BRZ, the parent GT 86 has all the ...    Read more

All three Toyota brands—Toyota, Lexus, and Scion—dominated research firm J.D. Power and Associates dependability study for 2009 model year vehicles. Toyota's luxury brand Lexus sat on top of J.D. Power and Associates' U.S. Vehicle Dependability Study (VDS) for 2012 with 86 problems per 100 vehicles, or PP100. Adding an additional feather ...    Read more

At the 2012 Tokyo Auto Salon, the largest custom car show in Japan, Toyota plans to show a breathed-upon FT-86 with parts from Toyota Racing Development, as well as a diminutive supercharged iQ that in boxing parlance, tries to punch above its weight class. Yeah, because that’s one thing the iQ ...    Read more

The auto industry rarely ever takes a step backward. Despite stiffer government regulations that make building exciting—yet practical—cars, trucks and SUVs, an even bigger challenge, 2012 looks to be another year of progress. With automakers leapfrogging one another in rapid sequence, we at Automotive.com, we looked at where we saw ...    Read more

Toyota's youth oriented Scion brand, the makers behind the 2012 iQ, will have its newest and tiniest model in showrooms this week. The iQ was designed to be the ideal urban commuter— small enough to fit into any parking space, while boasting 36 mpg city fuel economy that'll have you ...    Read more

The 2013 Scion FR-S and its platform mates, the 2013 Subaru BRZ and overseas-only Toyota GT 86, haven’t even gone on sale yet. But already, we’re hearing murmurs of more powerful versions making it to production. Subaru, the automaker that engineered the FR-S and BRZ, has denied the 2.0-liter flat-4 engine ...    Read more

An eager crowd huddled tightly on an unusually windy and chilly night in Hollywood, happy to be in a studio awaiting Scion vice president Jack Hollis' introduction to the all-new FR-S. This was no small affair. Toyota's alternative youth-oriented brand has teetered along, but forums and chat rooms have been ...    Read more

Japanese automakers are very likely counting down the days of 2011. In a year of earthquakes, a tsunami, and even more recent flooding in Thailand, the end of December can't come soon enough. Manufacturing and parts have been limited, inventory has been affected, and if you haven't noticed— the economy ...    Read more

We're not going to say that we don't take the Tokyo Motor Show seriously. We do, in fact. But, for a show that only comes around every other year, and largely features a bunch of wacky concept cars that will never see the light of day—at least, not in ...    Read more

Carmakers usually drive both enthusiasts and, more importantly, the automotive press crazy with teasers of their next vehicles, especially new ones. Toyota and Subaru, in an unusual move, have released so much information and images of their co-developed FT-86 sports car concept (including test drives!) that we're not expecting any ...    Read more

The US Department of Energy today released its annual list of most efficient vehicles. It's another one of those trophies that manufacturers tout as being important and "official," like the Grammy's, but which too few people actually care about. The rankings are grouped into popular vehicle classes and based on ...    Read more