Originally posted by Jarrett
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I always hated the Scion affiliation as well. I'm glad the brand is going away. It was a gimmick brand. The tC was a half-decent Celica replacement, and it was the only car that retained any sense of value to me (aside from the FR-S, of course.) Not enough to buy one, of course (I'd buy a Civic long before I considered a tC...) The xB was quirky in the first generation, and outgrew its cuteness in the second. All the other models were basically throwaway cars. The entire brand was built on the assumption that kids would be excited to point and click their way into a "custom" car. The FR-S was the only genuinely impressive Scion, but I always considered it to be more Subaru than Toyota, since it's powered by a Subaru engine. I've heard mixed tales regarding who put the most work into the development of the car... but I get the impression it was Subaru. I sat in both the BRZ and FR-S at the auto show last year, and the BRZ was much nicer inside. The FR-S felt cheap. Odd, since they're damn near the same car! I wonder what I'll think of the FT86. I hope Toyota lets their version of the car grow up a bit. (I still say an STi turbocharged version and a TRD supercharged version should happen...)
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