You can’t
say a car is discontinued if it’s still being built.
When the
inevitable death of Scion was
announced, not many people wept. After all, Toyota’s youth-oriented brand
wasn’t around long enough for buyers to build a serious relationship with it
and aside from that, Toyota had enough good cars that looked cool to capture
the youth market that Scion was going for. However those who do actually miss
the brand need not fear, because while the name “Scion” is being phased out,
most of the brand’s lineup will remain intact. We already told you how the fun
and zippy FR-S is being
rescued from the sinking Scion ship.
But it looks like two
other models will be making their way to the Toyota lifeboat. The iM and iA
will both move over to Toyota, but they wont just gain the bubbly T badge,
they’ll also steal some names from already hot-selling Toyotas. The iA will be
called the Yaris iA, even though it has nothing in common with the actual
Yaris. The iM will suffix the best-selling Corolla name, which is more appropriate
given that the iM is just a Corolla hatchback with an S badge. This means that
the only Scion that will get the axe will
be the storm trooper looking tC, which won’t be missed much anyways. This
youth infusion probably won’t help or hurt Toyota, but its not like they’re in
bad shape anyway.
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