Hey everybody, I was just asked to design the new show car for my dealership. I want some ideas for it; i want this car to be differant and to stand out, but have a very clean look.

The sky is the limit as far as price goes so don't hold back.

I need pictures of all the products suggested so that I can show the owner what i'm going to build. Part #'s, exact products, and websites/stores that sell them would also be needed (Its nice to design a dream car, but I actually need to be able to get all these parts)

Thanks in advance, Ben

get the tanabe df210's they are available at most any performance store online for approx 150 shipped , put some trd wheels on 18" but get the spokes powdercoated black. trd short shifter , aem intake

Why can't it be my job to build a show car? :(

I think you should go with Camo and make it look like a tank. Instead of going with big wheels, go with something like 15x7 wheels with a really fat tire. Carbon fiber hood. Carbon fiber hatch and OEM rear spoiler. Tint the windows as black as you can and then slam the car to the ground. Then for the interior, go with black leather and army camo inserts.

If you wanted to go all out and be weird, get some fake vines, run them around the interior pillars and cover the whole headliner with more fake plants so it looks like a jungle...

And the performance parts... well, just get some silicon hoses, an intake, a shiny oil cap, some billet aluminum battery tie downs, and one of those little stretchy TRD reservoir cover dohickies. It'll look like it's fast, even if it isn't.

How about all four doors being lambos. And maybe even the back ones being suicide lambos.

Why can't it be my job to build a show car? :(

I think you should go with Camo and make it look like a tank. Instead of going with big wheels, go with something like 15x7 wheels with a really fat tire. Carbon fiber hood. Carbon fiber hatch and OEM rear spoiler. Tint the windows as black as you can and then slam the car to the ground. Then for the interior, go with black leather and army camo inserts.

If you wanted to go all out and be weird, get some fake vines, run them around the interior pillars and cover the whole headliner with more fake plants so it looks like a jungle...

And the performance parts... well, just get some silicon hoses, an intake, a shiny oil cap, some billet aluminum battery tie downs, and one of those little stretchy TRD reservoir cover dohickies. It'll look like it's fast, even if it isn't.


I sorta like that jungle idea, but I'm going for a very clean, sleek look with the interior, but maybe I'll use that somehow. I need products that are available to purchase now, custom body/interior work may be out of the question depending on the timeframe I'm given

Keep in mind that everything I do has to be legal, (gotta be careful with tints) we've gotta warranty all this stuff, and it has to be retailable (I don't think that's a word, but it gets the idea across) because someday we'll have to sell the car.

Keep the ideas coming!

Take the rearmost side windows and turn them into saltwater aquariums w/UV lights and some flashy fish. And maybe one of those diver guys :mrgreen:
I'm sure you could work that into the jungle motif. Which by the way is extrememly original and cool IMO. 8)

It is kind of a small detail but how about putting pistons in to open and hold up the bonnet. VW has this on there cars it is so nice. You could probably find a junked new VW and take those.

Cost is no object? Then start by importing the JDM all-wheel drive components for the bB and doing an engine swap with forced induction.

then do a chopped top, like the far right picture here:
http://www.scionlife.com/?Old%20Punk

Man, no offense guys, but some of your ideas are whack; different, but whack.

No matter what rims you choose, definitely get the OneTonGarage shims for the rear wheels (or else the rear wheels will look more sunk into the wheel well than the fronts). Have every light in the interior changed to the same color (I'm talking about the speedo, the clock, the radio - maybe go aftermarket with the head unit, the A/C, the dome, the under dash cathodes, the cup holders, and anywhere else you put lights). Leather seats with suede sewed into them with a suede headliner is awesome (I know because I've got just that). Go for a dash cover kit, maybe carbon fiber to match the exterior color and the interior lights. One word: armrest (which ever you prefer). I'm not sure about the stock door panels, but the ones that came with my car (I'm pretty sure they're aftermarket) have space for 6-1/2 separates in each door - a must if you're putting a system in it. Lights in the trunk area so you can see what you're doing at night or just to light up any woofers you put back there. Do something with the front grill/bumper (either a bB emblem on the stock grill with the billet grills in the bumper or go with all billet grills). This would be awesome - 4 wheel disc brake conversion. It looks like a lot of work, but it's something a dealership can do easy, and it looks sooo good behind big wheels. Debadge the rear. Sunroof (maybe two). CAI, Exhaust system including performance header. Wire and hose dressups in the engine. Cathodes hidden in the engine compartment (for the dark). I'm not a fan of the exterior carbon fiber products, and if you want to look "clean", I wouldn't go there (maybe on the door pillars, that's it). No exterior decals. Get the rim spokes painted to match the car. Clear corners. Smoked tails (maybe to match the paint, depending on what color you go with). Sway and strut bars. Two inch drop and shocks/struts.

That's all I can think of... actually, that's pretty much what my car is (some of that stuff is yet to come).

If you're going for the clean look... I'd say shave off the door handles and put in some door poppers. Then go with the viper 791x (i'm pretty sure thats what it is) alarm system with auto start... Its sweet i just got that put into my car.

Start with a black xB. White leather seats with light gray piping to match the pillars. Black patent headliner and gloss black upper dash with white speedometer surround and center dash. Leave all the silver parts on the dash silver, but swap the steering wheel with a leather wrapped one from a 2002 Camry SE. Re-solder all the LEDs in the clock/radio/AC controls so they're white.

Throw on some BBS (BMW style mesh) wheels in 17" with 5 degrees camber and air suspension. Slam that baby to the ground.

I'll post the exterior stuff later.

All I have to say is, if you have to ask............

Sliding doors have not been done at all yet :wink:

How about a precisionmuffler.com axle back? :twisted: Always a great way to go on any show car, ask eveildave! :D

I'm thinking a custom Paint job maybe electric blue with silver as a secondary color? chop the top. Shave the door handles and gas cap. get a bodykit from japan(that way no one has it, and it will have the plate there) a Colored Carbon fiber hood and the shaved cf hatch (http://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=381020#381020)4 Racing seats, redone in silver suede and blue leather. sunroof, and redo the headliner in suede too. fiberglass the dash with mids and tweets. fiberglass the doors for some mids and tweets. do a fiberglass system in the back. Fiberglass overhead units for tvs, don't get a drop down. you can get ideas from M-E (its a magazine www.me-mag.com) don't get lambos its a f'in box car. maybe suicide the back. get a turbo for shows and stuff, and maybe some engine dress up. you cound end up with a really nice car if you don't do stupid stuff with it. bag the car, with a kit thats out, and weld little stands on the bottom so it doesnt smash the kit, but will be less than an inch off the ground. get some 19"s( 20's are to big and 18"s to small) get chrome but nothing flashy, something like these

http://www.motegiracing.com/applicationguide/motegiimages/big/b2136.gif

ohh and get a stylis axle back

I personally feel that this would be an excellent opportunity to develop a functional suicde door set up AND have a dealer pay for the R & D to make it work. 8)

Time frame might be an issue, though. :cry:

money is ALWAYS a object... chop the top 4 inches repaint the car something easy on the eyes, shave all handles, custom widebody kit, and a absolute silly sound system..like 4 W6's in fiberglass with 2 floating 1000 watt amps and a 20 inch flat screen to hang down.....

or kevlar color the whole car

Cost is no object? Then start by importing the JDM all-wheel drive components for the bB and doing an engine swap with forced induction.

then do a chopped top, like the far right picture here:
http://www.scionlife.com/?Old%20Punk

and then put in those buckets seats. and convert it to a 5 bolt pattern nicer option for rims from japan and definitely get a full bumper body kit from japan.

How about an uber lux xB? Plush leather, tastfully modern curtains for the back. Wood grain. Rear seat recliners. Humidor/Champaign fridge. TV's in headrest and dash nav only. Skylight for the back. All Black and Chrome outside, with mostly black interior with tan accenting and wood trim. Basically turn it into a Maybach 67 xB but don't stretch the car... Maybe too much for what your looking for. But you said money is no object... :twisted:

how about 4 jl audio w7 13.5 to start in a fiberglass box the evo 5 body kit go to Jtautostlye.com for a pic, or streetconcept.com to get it cheaper . Lambo doors no wait delorean doors then paint it bright bright blue with irradecent flakes. then you need to put screens in the head rest preferabley 8inch clarions. the new kenwood double din dvd player for sure. then to top it off STREET GLOW OUT THE WAZOO.

Well one thing is money is an object if this is to be kept retailable? You don't want to invest 20-25,000 in the XB and then look to sell it for close to 30 or so, at the max i'd figure out you have a budget to sell the XB for 25-26000 at the most. Otherwise you're getting away from the core market and probably we could build the same thing cheaper as we all know that wonderful dealership mark-up on aftermarket parts.

Oops, I guess I went too far then :oops:

Let's see, think generic.... Carbon fiber this, chrome that, 10 vid screens, lights everywhere... am I close?

Is this car to be sold or just strictly a show car as you put it?

Camo Green with tan leather interior and matching tan ragtop. i say go for a timeless look. Wood Inserts in dash, console...possibly even hardwood flooring. Put in a mini fridge, and i dig the idea of a humidor. Stay with 15" wheels with perhaps a 5 or 6 spoke wheel. Wood Panels on the outside would be sweet... give it that woody look, but that may be ripping of the pt cruiser a bit. Go with TRD sport muffler and Air intake to make it sound a bit more beefy.

Oops, I guess I went too far then :oops:

Let's see, think generic.... Carbon fiber this, chrome that, 10 vid screens, lights everywhere... am I close?

Is this car to be sold or just strictly a show car as you put it?

From reading his message looks like a show demo vehicle for now but with the ability to sell it later on. Since it's with a dealership you can bet that they don't plan on losin money on it.

O yeah if I might make a suggestion. Diamond Plate Floormats :lol:

If it's to be resold, then prolly something like:

BSP paint
In-Dash Nav+ (Pioneer AVIC-N1)
Possibly screens in front seat headrests
Black leather seats with black or grey suede inserts (Katzkin (sp?))
16/17 5-8 spoke chrome wheels with a 1-2 inch lip (Who cares)
TRD Springs and Struts
Chrome mirror covers
Billet aluminum front grills (all three)
TYC tails
AEM Intake
Hotchkies strut bar
TRD Muffler
Large Sunroof/Panoramic Sunroof (Webasto)
Subwoofer
Sublte TRD badge on rear
Interior lighting kits

By my estimates, that would put you somwhere near $25k. And it's a style that will likely offend none.

All I have to say is, if you have to ask............

What's the harm in asking other people's opinions? I already had a pretty good idea of what I wanted to do but I just wanted to see what every body else had to say.

BTW, there were a lot of great ideas in here, so thanks to everyone who responded.
Some of the stuff I wanted to do with the car would make it unretailable, which may or may not be a problem. The dealership does not plan on selling the car any time in the forseeable future, but I suppose we will have to do something with it eventually so I guess that will have to be taken into account. I saw that Longo Scion out in Cali was trying to sell thier yellow xB on eBay and as far as I know, it never sold, so that might be an eventual problem for us.

Alpine CDA-9820XM Head Unit
Alpine iPod Adaptor
Alpine NAV-200 DVD Navigation/Monitor
Alpine TMX-R700 Overhead Flip Down Monitor
5.8" Headrest Montors (4)
Type-S Rear Speakers (Alpine)
Type-S Front Speakers (Alpine)
V12 AccuClass Mono Amplifier (2)
10" Type-X Series Subwoofer (4)
Playstation 2
Microsoft Xbox
White/Gray Leather Interior
Custom White Carpeted Interior (carpet and headliner)
Color Dash Kit (White)
TRD Steering Wheel Gray
MOMO Chrome Pedal Set
LED Under-Dash Kit
Autotechnic EL-Gauge
DC Sports Cat-Back Exhaust
DC Sports Header
Blitz Supercharger
Aluminum Engine Cover
TRD Lowering Springs
TRD Shocks
DC Sports Front Strut Bar
Rotora Big Brake Kit
Carbon Creations Silver CF OEM Hood
Toyota Japan Billet Grille
Fabulous-Style Body Kit
FX1 Fender Flare
Rear Tail Lights by TYC
Giovanna Genoa 18" Wheels W/ Yokohama ES100 Tires

Est. Total Price:$37,394.00

Anyways, the car's not built yet, this is just a quick list of stuff I made that I want to put in the car, Opinions? And I still need to get all that stuff approved by the boss, which won't be easy, so if you know about anything new for the xB, let me know

what color would it be? no custom paint? and if your going to paint, why not shave the handles? and if your going to get the fab kit, you should look into that hatch that I pointed out. don't get the TYC everyone has them, get the helix(sp)

I wanted to keep as much stuff from our Scion Parts book as I could (which didn't turn out to be much) in order to show what we can do to the everyday cars that we sell.

I was planning on using a BSP xB for the job, I think the black looks great pimped out. I'm still open to doing a custom paint job but I'm having a hard time deciding on a color, orange has been done on the RS 1.0, yellow has been done by Longo and supposedly the RS 2.0, So color suggestions would be welcome, pics of the colors on a car would be great

Thanks

Get the toyota japan chrome fender accents.

colors, baby blue, lime green, red, electric blue.

then you can do 2tone baby blue, lime green, and electric blue, with silver

or that chameleon paint!

or chrome the whole car, ive seen some benz like that.

I still think it needs aquarium windows. :mrgreen:

How about a chrome xb with an aquarium and sliding doors.

^^^YES! now you're thinkin :lol:

I'm really liking the white carpet idea. I might have to figure that out...

www.selectproducts.com they have good products. no white carpet, but some gray

wow, there are some of the worst ideas ive ever heard on here.... :P
go bold world air suspension (REVOlution ADVANCE VERSION):
http://www.boldworld.co.jp/advancerevo1.html
do a custom mode parfume/blow design aero kit:
http://www.blowdesign.co.jp/top.html
garson DR301 wheels:
http://www.garson.co.jp/zuenglein/dr301.html
all garson interior components (seat covers, mirrors, curtains, lights ect..) (i like the furry seat covers):
http://www.garson.co.jp/l_interior.html
and some nice custom audio setup.
oh and i also like the open deck grill. my 2cents

IT'S ALIVE!!!

I'd go for the classy exterior look... one that will turn heads cause it's so clean.

Exterior:
Paint: Caddilac black with a HIGH gloss (no metal flake)
Headlights: cleared with silverstars - upgrade to hyper-white bulbs - also get some wiper motors from an old volvo and attach them to your headlights for a classy look.
Body kit: Stay stock or go VIP style... If you stay stock, DEFINATELY switch out your front & rear lip and skirting... something lower or more agressive.
Windows: Tint to what the law will allow, and get some esam vent visors (or the knock-offs).
Mirrors: Upgrade to the RS2 mirrors with integrated turn signals
Spoiler: Bbist.com any choice from there will be killer
Emblems: Debadge.
Rear wiper: Convert so it sticks up... (It's in the DIY section)
Rims: Nothing too large, nothing too small... something with a chrome lip - but definitely drop it about 2 inches.. or bag it.
Grilles: Anything but stock... preforably mesh or billet. I think a chrome mesh would look the classiest.
Exhaust: Dual exhaust. Cat-back.
Optional: Underbody neon-kit (with wheel wells (oznium.com)
Optional: Lambo doors or suicide doors - either way, shave the handles.

This could all be done in 2 weeks TOPS. 1 week really, if you had all the parts the day of. no fabricating work necessary. (except with the lambos or suicides...and the wiper idea)

^ You realize this thread was resurrected from 11/2004 right?

nope. Had no clue... regardless... That's what I'd do!

Ooh I like mill0048's idea!

wow, there are some of the worst ideas ive ever heard on here.... :P
go bold world air suspension (REVOlution ADVANCE VERSION):
http://www.boldworld.co.jp/advancerevo1.html
do a custom mode parfume/blow design aero kit:
http://www.blowdesign.co.jp/top.html
garson DR301 wheels:
http://www.garson.co.jp/zuenglein/dr301.html
all garson interior components (seat covers, mirrors, curtains, lights ect..) (i like the furry seat covers):
http://www.garson.co.jp/l_interior.html
and some nice custom audio setup.
oh and i also like the open deck grill. my 2cents

You do realize that these were the only idea available at the time of 2004. :silly:

ups truck.

I wanna see a Booberry theme.

You do realize that these were the only idea available at the time of 2004. :silly:

(blushing)
lol i didnt look at the date....(hits head)