re: #101 NJDhockeyfan

Scions are marketed toward college-age kids. They are not really made for long trips. The Tc with a 5-speed transmission is a fun little car. I don’t care for the others though. I never cared for the box shaped car designs.

I don’t dislike them, the TC is purty, especially with those wheels. The Toyota strategy is the kids buy the Scions, then they grow up and move to Toyotas, then they “make it” and buy a Lexus.

But my sweet spot for shopping for cars are compacts-gone-wild like the Subaru WRX STI, the Mitsu Evo, the VW R32. Something that will make me cackle with lurid glee and frighten my passengers. I’ll drive my GTI until the wheels fall off, but if it were totaled tomorrow, that’s what I’d be looking at.

I understand the box shape of the Nissan Cube and the xB because it maximizes interior space in a small wheelbase. You get a compact car with the cargo potential of a much larger vehicle. But they do look weird. 8-)