just came accross this and it ____ed me off, this crapolla car company is hatin on scions check the article.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/automotive/columnists/chi-0402270298feb27,0,4886549.column

isnt a hummer a "square box" too?

kids these days

they just need to test drive it first

Damn .. are 16 yr old girls that dumb ... cause they sound like a bunch of airheads ... the real reason they like the hummer is cause every hip hop star owns and H1 or an H2

Oh please, high school sophmores? 95% of high school sophmores have no taste in anything, they just go with the crowd. The other 5% lead the crowd, and that other 5% of people with actual taste and concern for practicality are buying scions.

Besides; these girls are being paid to rip on every car but those horrid hyundais (which this high school junior thinks are tres lame, lamer than a dodge neon with a huge wing and kanji symbols everywhere).

I mean god damn im 15 and i think it's sick! I hate hummers! A lot of people a my school hate it but hey the cars they're driving break down every day! I love the scion and i think they did a good job on making unique cars.

And i'm a sophmore. All the stupid popular people hate it but my friends think it's tight also.

my girlfriend had a hyundai accent and it was sooooo noisy inside , had no air conditioning, felt like it was gonna lose control over 60mph, had a terrible terrible stereo in it, and no power at all. i don't think their "HIT squad" is really working very well if they think kids want hyundai accents!
i am happy that hyundai won't make something that looks like like a Scion. last thing i'd want is someone saying "oh, is that a hyundai?" about my xA.

and good luck to hyundai on trying to make a Hummer!

Damn .. are 16 yr old girls that dumb ... cause they sound like a bunch of airheads ... the real reason they like the hummer is cause every hip hop star owns and H1 or an H2

Exactly...They took a group of 16 year old kids who dont know isht about cars, dont have any idea how much it costs to own a car, and probably wont because their parents will buy them a 25k acura to keep em quiet. I haven't seen a "teen" focus group that liked the scions yet, but I also haven't seen a teen focus group with a combined automotive I.Q over 5 yet either so I wouldn't even bother getting upset.


BTW.... What idiot wants a fluckin Hyundai?--unless its being given to you, or you like driving in a plastic crap box. If the scions did seem popular to the company and they designed their own box, noone would buy that pos unless they relied on a group of 15 year old idiots to decide for em- it's a freakin hyundai, that's only marginally better than a kia--Not even, and thats only marginally better then driving a huffy. ____ I'd rather walk at this point. Whats next??...Is chevy gonna buy daewoo and try and pass em off as economical fuel efficient space saving econo cars for teens that end up being just another crap stain on the trousers of automotive history?.....O sorry aveo, didn't see you there.

These are kids whos parents are currently picking up the tab for thier gas costs and insurance and probably their car payments. Wait til they realize gas is gonna cost them 80 bucks a fillup for 300 miles on a damn hummer. ____, i looked at fullsize trucks, but i cant afford teh insurance or the damn gas. girls are stupid anyway when it comes to cars... as i was buying mine i overheard the service advisors joking about how one lady religously changes her oil... every 20000 miles.

Damn .. are 16 yr old girls that dumb ... cause they sound like a bunch of airheads ... the real reason they like the hummer is cause every hip hop star owns and H1 or an H2 amen to that! :D

I am 16, but I must say, most of my peers dont like the scion either, but i honestly dont care. The xB is not for everyone. I think it the the 8) coolest thing to burn rubber on American pavement 8) , and I am getting one this summer :shock: .. Everyone who hates on the Scion™ can shove it :)

Nathan

Yeah... everyone has their own opinion... Most of the people I know don't like it mainly because it only has 108 horses. It doesn't bother me cause I don't care about speed I just want to go cruisin around. But don't ever let anyone get you down about your car. The car isn't there to make anyone else happy, it's to make the owner happy.
That's just how I put it if it makes any sense...

straight hating. the newspaper is prolly owned by some other carmakers

#1--I agree 100% with NemoBronsky..these kids haven't a clue when it comes to cars..Sounds like Hyundai picked them on purpose just for this forum to make themselves look better...

#2--Even if Hyundai would TRY and make a competitor to the xB, why on earth would anyone buy it when the xB is already out there? And if Hyundai would ever put anything like this to market, I think Nissan/Mitsubishi/Mazda/Honda would beat it with their own versions (Cube/eK/Spiano/That's)..Kudos to Toyota for thinking outside "the bBox" and bringing this awesome ride to the American market!

(I'll get down off my soapbBox now..)

thats why my plates say WHYBH8N

Oh please, high school sophmores? 95% of high school sophmores have no taste in anything, they just go with the crowd. The other 5% lead the crowd, and that other 5% of people with actual taste and concern for practicality are buying scions.

I'm a highschool sophomore :twisted:

Why dont they tell those girls that the car they pick has to be below 18,000 dollars and see what they pic then. Lets be real they dont have much to choose from.

looks like I can't pick up underage highschool girls in an xB.... damn, and I was looking forward to jail.

im 15. not many of my friends like the xb or the xa. they think both cars are ugly as hell. i dont care about what they say. i never have cared about what they say. i like all 3 of the scions. this summer or so im gonna try to get one of the scion. its true that highschool students only like wat the hip hop stars like.

looks like I can't pick up underage highschool girls in an xB.... damn, and I was looking forward to jail.

lmao!!!

#1, Since when our demographic included 16 yr Girl.
#2, If these girl hated it? Good, i wouldn't be caught dead driving a chick car let alone a 16yr Girlz car. :lol:
#3, The following group of people should also hate the Scion; the French, Nazi, 80yr and above (Stop driving plz), Teenie Booper, French (again) :lol:

Scion is for folks who are "in" to getting more bang for their buck... Which means we have $$$$ to spend.

Asking 8 16yr girl to comment on the Scion, is soo wrong, it's like;
(Please fill in the blank)
its like taking a blind man to an ATM machine, ask them to comment about the brilled button.
its like asking a homie to comment on our consensus regarding our weekly "Quantum Mathematical" Pow Wow.
its like asking Micheal Jackson what he think of the Girl Gone Wild video.

First of all...

i agree with you all... that is the stupidiest survey/investigative team i've heard of. And why did they have to choose all girls? no offense, but generally... i think males have more knowledge on cars...generally.

Secondly... i'm glad those high school airheads don't like Scion..cuz i don't want little air heads driving Scions and ruining the image.


Third, Hyundai is just using this article to create stigma ...cuz probably they're losing customer to scion buyers now.

Finally... Scion is unique as they come ...especially at the price range it's offered at.

So all those little air heads can continue to walk to school or borrow their dad's Geo Prizm.

I never thought the xb was pretty...sometimes I think it IS ugly, but I love it anyway. It has something that no other car has, some weird quality that I must be identifying with but cant really identify. Maybe I dont know why I love it exactly, but I do. Can someone cue some sentimental music? Maybe n'sync or Barry White or the equivalent-

ahem*

Scion, I've been thinking a lot about us lately... And I think its time we took it to the next level baby... Oh yeah, you make me feel so fine, I dont care what your momma says, I love you babe...and anyway, I'll make it some day, with you by my side, and then all the naysayers will know we were right...and so forth.

The XB is cheap enough and is easy to customize . It gets great gas mileage and it has a great following . So with the gas going up out of control .We have alot to be thankful for . We can still drive while the SUV'S have to stay parked. Happy campers will stay off the roads .Nothing but a blessing to Scion drivers.I cannot come up with any negitive thing about the Scion .Now for the looks it grows on you and thats all you need. We may never be able to aford a Humvee and those girls are just dreaming .Which is a natural thing with their species . Dream dream dream dream that all they are good for.

A bunch of grown folks,in a marketing meeting together, Then someone said: Why don't we do this, we'll get a few 9th grader. Show'em a picture, ask for their comment; At this very point, he pops up and said "9th grade is too young, at least 10th, Don't show'em the pic, take'em to a car show instead" Then the Senior management applause!

I am sure that if someone told those girls that Britney Spears owned an XB they would be al over it.

Jason

First of all...

i agree with you all... that is the stupidiest survey/investigative team i've heard of. And why did they have to choose all girls? no offense, but generally... i think males have more knowledge on cars...generally.

Secondly... i'm glad those high school airheads don't like Scion..cuz i don't want little air heads driving Scions and ruining the image.


Third, Hyundai is just using this article to create stigma ...cuz probably they're losing customer to scion buyers now.

Finally... Scion is unique as they come ...especially at the price range it's offered at.

So all those little air heads can continue to walk to school or borrow their dad's Geo Prizm.
I like everything you just said. Your third point is right on... Hyundai can't stand the fact that toyota has a better quality, more identifiable, competing vehicle in the form of the scion family. They can't build cars for shiiz, and they're not very good at making a cheap ploy to use the vehicles target demographic against it either. All in all I just think it says more about why we bought or can't wait to buy a scion.

All they have to do is paint a XB pink and put a Britney Spears life size Pic on the side.They could sell a million of them .Just get Britney to drive one for a few days to promote it and off it goes .The girls will go wild and maybe a few boys who aren't right in the head.

I am sure that if someone told those girls that Britney Spears owned an XB they would be al over it.

Jason

LOL hell yeah i bet theyed be lined up the whazoo. but anyways the only reason they sayin stuff like that because ever since scion came out its been a big hit and is doing really well. also notice that they only have girls in this article if they have boys/guys theyd prolly be all over it like we are

haha..you know what.

Sure, 16 yr old girls can think the car is ugly/it sux.

Too bad for Hyundai, the entire freakin planet thinks all there vehicles are rolling death traps that aren't worth a damn cent.

LOL I like how they always pick people who have no clue what a car costs or who makes it, maybe they will care if it is a domestic of an import when they own a import and it breaks and creeks and rattles all the time and is so plain jane. I prob knew more about cars and so on when I was 7 then they will ever know. And for Hyundai, well they are just sucky, my mom has a Sonato that I drove a few days when she left it at my appt to go to the airport, had anough plastic wood in there, that looked sobad and plasticly, no power and it was just plain ugly. I am glad that lil girls dont want this car, dont want it to be like the celica or my eclipse(both womens cars). I want a unique car, thats why we are getting orange and doing unique stuff to it, I dont want a camry or accord or sonata or civic.

stupid broads.

Is this irony?
-A bunch of 16 year old girls (new drivers), are being called a "Hit squad"? You bet they're going to hit things! And if Mommy and Daddy buy them an H2, I'm getting my ___ off the road before they HIT me!
-Even more irony, the "Hit squad" doesn't seem to care about airbags! Darwin in action, folks!

-Phil

Is this irony?
-A bunch of 16 year old girls (new drivers), are being called a "Hit squad"? You bet they're going to hit things! And if Mommy and Daddy buy them an H2, I'm getting my ___ off the road before they HIT me!
-Even more irony, the "Hit squad" doesn't seem to care about airbags! Darwin in action, folks!

-Phil :lol: :lol: :lol:

-Even more irony, the "Hit squad" doesn't seem to care about airbags! Darwin in action, folks!

-Phil

haha thats true. like this quote from one of the girls "Since I started driving last year, my parents figured I needed the extra bags because I'd be running into things. But I couldn't care less about bags."

When I bought my xb, my 14 year old daughter and all her friends think it is the coolest car.

i read that article a couple of weeks ago on the trib. there are a couple of items that first must be addressed. 1) the study groups' opinions clearly lack any external validity -- meaning that pretty much all their comments are limited to that specific group and not the targeted demographic that Scion is after. 2) the girls from glenbrook south are from a rather upscale/affluent community here in illinois where bimmers are the hondas for them. and finally (perhaps most importantly) 3) hyundai's interest in the whole scion thing runs much deeper. hyundai has even commissioned the designer that penned the xB! ladies and gents, meet the neos-II which was unveiled at this years tokyo auto show. it is obvious that hyundai is very serious in entering the scion market (as is mazda) and wants to find scion's secret to its success.
http://www.autoweek.com/specials/2003_tokyo/neos_II/images/1.jpg

I think its safer for these girls if they DON'T buy scions... I knew more than one girl that by 18 has totalled a suburban on city streets... just distrubing.

I heard a girl one time talking in class back when I was in high school about her oil light coming on... she got tired of looking at it so she fixed it....... by putting a post-it over it. Romey and Michelle would be proud!

Still another HS girl i knew ran out of gas after she got a new car becuase she thought wen it came with gas new it didnt need anymore.

The hardest part about this... these girls will more than likely reproduce. Society may just be doomed.

I know all ladies out there are as clueless as the few i just mentioned... i was just reinforcing the point (that everyone has made) that the girls were perhaps the worst to question because their opinions will change as soon as the new MTV cribs episode feature Britneys pad with the pimped out Xb (and inevitably this prob will happen).

I went from a Hyundai Accent ( 2001 ) to the RS1. I can tell you that the 5 speed was really quick off the line, because there wasnt any weight to it. It rode like a tin can on wheels, very stiff, and noisey inside, but she would get up and go. I bought it cause i needed a cheap form of transportation at the time, and ended up selling it privately, seeing as how the dealer was only offering me $1,100 for it on trade. That was in mint condition, with 16K miles.

:P to Hyundai

[quote="BigBadWolf"]

Asking 8 16yr girl to comment on the Scion, is soo wrong, it's like;
(Please fill in the blank)

...like asking President Bush to show just exactly where the connection is between Iraq and 9/11 is and where their nuclear weapons went

...like asking Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz to explain how invading Iraq helps make America safer from Al Quaeda

...like asking an SUV driver if they like to heel/toe shift and clip apexes

...like asking Ronald Reagan to be the keynote speaker at an AIDS benefit (even before the Alziemers)


:twisted:

They're prolly bitter because they dont have/wont have a big aftermarket following. :lol: Stuck with a car with no personality....just a car. :cry:

They needed to tell those girl that they had to pick a car that sold at a low price. It had to be economical . Also low on insurance and repair . Give them something to shoot for . If you dont they will pick the most expensive car out there .You know they wont pick the Scion unless they are forced to face reality.

what a bunch of haters... Hyundai's have that riduculous warranty for a reason... I think that was the most towed car I ever had to deal with at my old job...