How did you get first interested in buying an xB? I remember my wife and I going someplace about a year ago (Sept of 2004) and spotting our first one. Now if you knew my wife and I, you would know we agree on nothing-------we usually agree to dis-agree. But when we saw our first xB at an intersection-----we both said "what is that"--------"thats about the ugliest little car I ever seen". But we both agreed it was cute. Then a couple of months went by and we went to a Christmas parade and while walking back to our car----we spotted a "burnt orange" xB in the parking lot and the people were just getting into it. Of course we had to rush over and ask them all about it----and I think we were sold at that point. Since then we have seen several and every chance we get we approach the owner and grill him or her with questions of all kinds about the little box. Well----Thank God----we agreed that this was the vehicle for us----and the long of the story we now own our camogreenmet xB and LOVE IT. Any other experiences on getting hooked on the xB Scion??? PJRACER

i just got sick of having a car...and no room. i wanted something that had some room, seats could fold down to give me more room, and also still got good gas mileage...xB fits it all and then some

its an addiction.

Ive always liked it, fiance likes the xA more but she loves the box now, she appreciates the value and the amount of room...more so considering we are moving next month lol now having a mini-minivan will be nice!!!

2003 Los Angeles Auto Show... I thought the outside was kinda funky, but then I sat inside the back seat and was able to stretch out my legs (I'm 6'4") I fell in love.

I had just spent 20 grand on an '03 XRS Matrix, and I saw that the xBs started around $14k-$15k. The BSP Matrix was traded for a BSP xB and I never looked back.

-THE DON

I first saw one on the internet doing a "google" search for a new car under $15,000. It was so ugly it intrigued me, and when I saw it at the dealership I went Car Crazy. :love: My husband hated it, but once he took it for a test drive he changed his negative opinion into a positive, one. It is definately not a car for the shy. I still get asked about the car, and pointed at...I just wave. This Forum is so awesome too, I've learned so much about my car, and the people on here are so friendly.

I was ready to buy a car early 2004 and there were not over here on the east coast yet but my dad told me about them and then it was love...

I was looking to get an Echo for my commute, but a 4dr Echo w/ AC, auto windows, ABS, etc. went from 10K to 15K! When I got to the dealership looking for a stripped down Echo, the salesman actually lied to me and said they had no more Echos and were discontinued (in Sept 2003). Ended up test driving the xB. Thought it was kinda ugly, but I also thought that it was a better value than an Echo. Went home, found out about ScionLife and practically read the whole forums (when it was just a few Cali peeps). Suddenly it wasn't ugly anymore! Went back to Toyota dealership and test drove it again....SOLD...got me a completley base xB - not even floormats..lol. Hardest part was picking a color :)

I was first interested when I saw one at the TX state fair about a year before they would be released for the rest of the country.
I saw it and said "whoa, someone did a box car right, I want one!!"

I was so getting one................. up until the '06 tCs came out. but I still have a lot of love for the xBs, no doubt about that!

i've read alot of Option magazines when i younger. and i would see how those crazy people in japan had cars that looks like Mini mini vans...i thought it look reely weird at first, then i started loving that VIP style with slammed ride and deep dish rims.
then i heard toyota was importing the bB as the xB. i didnt believe it at first...
got rid of my celica GT-S(blown head) the got the xB.

its a chick magnet the end :P

A guy my wife used to teach with when we lived in VA got one when they first came out on the east coast. I was originally turned off by how small and boxy it was. But he's bigger than me (about 6'4") and was saying how much head room he still had, etc. So it kind of intrigued me.

Still took a while for it to grow on me, but so far (only had it two weeks) I'm really enjoying mine.

i seen it(bB) in japan and loved it. found out they were coming down here and i knew i wanted one. i was going to buy an 04 but my neighbor sold me his car, awesome condition for $300. i couldn't pass it up. after owning the car for almost a year, i said screw it and sold it so i could get the xB. thankfully i got an 05 in april.

I never thought that the xB was ugly I saw it for the first time on the pre-launch commercial on tv and I said that is what I want. I waited for them to launch in June of 2004 didn't even test drive one till after I put in my order waited two weeks and on June 27 2004 I drove my xB home with only 2 miles on the odometer. and I still love that car like the first time I drove it home.

I seen it on tv for about three months and told my wife one day i will get one of those. So after hearing this one day she told me i was too chicken to get a new car ( I have alway driven cars with over 150,000 miles on them ). So the very next day i went to look at the xb's and ended up ordering one that night.

I got a box because my other ride is a 64 GMC 3/4T pickup, and I hate what new cars look like...they all seem so aerodynamic and stale, so I was considering a frame-off resto on the pick up...about 10-12K for the resto. But they still wouldnt hemp my MPG any.

So I saw this square car/van/SUV type thing on the road and instantly, I KNEW that was the car for me, if I was going to go modern.

Going on three weeks old and I am loving my box. half my friends hate it. The other half love it. I dont care what ANY of them say because I love it and that is all that matters.

I remember seeing one at the Chicago Auto Show.....dont remember what year, maybe 03. At the time, i wouldn't have even considered a new car,...just couldn't afford it as a college student.

Fast forward a couple years...I'm driving two older vehicles that are complete money pits, i'm getting married in a year and i'm just dying to have a new vehicle. I looked around a bit at cars in the 14-17k range....i'd saved up about 7g's for a downpayment and wanted to be in the 200/month range for payments. My most likely options were a base civic (...bleh..honda..no character), Mazda 3 ( a little pricey, but sweet car), or one of the Scions. After randomly filling out the online credit app for TFS, they gave me a rate of 5.8% (which is a long way from my then current 9% on my truck). At that point, i was sold on the xB. Between moving soon and the lower insurance, I couldn't quite justify buying the tC. Ordered a 06 BSP xB because my dealer told me there would be no Camo 06's...he called me a week later telling me they were getting a Camo 06 5 speed...did i want it? Instantly changed my deposit over to the Camo....i'd never seen a Camo xB before i took delivery of mine. I've had it a little over 3 weeks now, and I absolutely love the car. Best choice i ever made

july 2001 when i got to that part of TXRZ, and then even more so when I got TXR3 in 2003. I loved them since 2001 when I first saw it in the game. I've always wanted one, and now I have one. . . so I'm happy.

I have a 2004 Hummer H2 that I bought in Nov 2003 for $65,000 in cash. It sucks - horrible gas mileage, not as big in the inside as the outside would make it seem, but this is the biggest thing...

I have owned it for 23 months (2 years this thanksgiving) and IT IS ALREADY STARTING TO RUST.

In the 23 months that I have owned it, I have just recently broken the 14,000 mile mark. When it snows, I do not take it out (Yes, I have a phobia with american cars and salty roads (rust)) - and my truck is already rusting@!#@#$@#$@#$

So, now that I have learned a costly mistake, I want to go with a reliable car that has a lot of space and that is great on gas. That spells xB - and I'm ordering mine this upcoming Saturday morning.

What made me decide on the xB were just a few things: size of the interior, gas mileage and price.

and now, sir, I am hooked. I need my next fix and I will get it on Saturday... :rofl: :pray:

My first car was a 80's mustang, I never had problems with it, even though it was way past its prime. I liked it better than driving cheep beat up imports handed down from Grandma, like all my friends were driving. I found it was good for me and someone else to go places, but if more wanted to go or if you had cargo it wasn't to good. I never liked 2 door cars after that, and I never liked 4 door cars.

My second car was a 89 Mitsu Precis(hyundi Excel) also past its prime. I loved the 3 door hatch back with lay down rear seat configuration alot. I liked the go cart type feel of it when zipping around town. It never really gave me much trouble, and when it did it was always fixed by me. I loved how simple the thing was, it got me around town all week giving me clues what was failing and I fixed it on the weekends, but it never let me down.

My third, was a Chevy extended cab S-10. I really loved this truck, It had plenty of room inside, and I could haul bigger stuff in the bed. It really wasn't better than the others, but my lifestyle had changed and it fit it the best. In 10 years that I owned it I only changed the oil, replaced 2 batteries, and a set of tires.

Well 2 big hurricanes later, I found out my S-10 can't swim well, and 10 years of paying insurance, without a claim and no tickets, really do pay off :money:

I never thought the Xb was ulgy, just a neat little car. Not really my taste, kinda reminds me of a soccer mom's car. After there numbers started to grow and the younger crowd started getting them I started noticeing them alittle more. About 2 weeks before the storms I saw a really clean TCM Xb driving tru the mall parking lot. ( I was driving thru to get around a light with tons of traffic backed up) It was very clean and simple, tint, mild drop and tunner style 17's. :bow: I knew I had to have one! :pray: The rest kinda just fell into place and like they say is history.

I have the gas milage of my Mitsu, with more room. I have more covered storage than my S-10(rain) and with the seats down I think I can fit more stuff in it than in the bed of my S-10. I have the go cart type handling that I love, while still sitting high enough to see the road.( like the S-10) I have the awsome reliability of a Toyota. I have the awsome looks of this unique little car, and I don't really mind that it's a 5 door. And at the price I don't really see how anyone could loose with an Xb.

How did you get first interested in buying an xB? I remember my wife and I going someplace about a year ago (Sept of 2004) and spotting our first one. Now if you knew my wife and I, you would know we agree on nothing-------we usually agree to dis-agree. But when we saw our first xB at an intersection-----we both said "what is that"--------"thats about the ugliest little car I ever seen". But we both agreed it was cute. Then a couple of months went by and we went to a Christmas parade and while walking back to our car----we spotted a "burnt orange" xB in the parking lot and the people were just getting into it. Of course we had to rush over and ask them all about it----and I think we were sold at that point. Since then we have seen several and every chance we get we approach the owner and grill him or her with questions of all kinds about the little box. Well----Thank God----we agreed that this was the vehicle for us----and the long of the story we now own our camogreenmet xB and LOVE IT. Any other experiences on getting hooked on the xB Scion??? PJRACER


Thats just about word for word my wife and I experience. :D


Ugly to love in about 18 months. :D

Parked in Union Square, 17th Street by the W.

Black and square and just stood out.

I'm subscribed to almost every auto mag out there and I read about'em, but it didn't register like seeing one in person.

I've never owned a japanese car before and hate'em to be honest.

Had considered a MINI, but need more room.

A few months later I became the owner of an xB...

A friend of mine had bought one on the east coast and when I went online and looked at it, I teased him about it, and said it was the ugliest thing I ever seen. What do you know, bout a year or 2 later I started seeing them on the road a little more and for some odd reason I began to like them. I guess because they are so different and I'm a different type of person I felt we were made for each other. Now I am the happy owner of xBizzle for shizzle.

I had a 94 chevy that was falling apart. Never knew if I was going to make it to my destination. Had little money and needed reliable tranportation. Came across this weird car called the XB. It had great features for the price. Better than anything else out there, so I got one. I am so happy with mine! What a great little car!

My third, was a Chevy extended cab S-10. I really loved this truck, It had plenty of room inside, and I could haul bigger stuff in the bed. It really wasn't better than the others, but my lifestyle had changed and it fit it the best. In 10 years that I owned it I only changed the oil, replaced 2 batteries, and a set of tires.
same here!!!! (literally)
:clap:

I love my s-10 too! I still have it!!! I call it the little truck that could!! going on eleven yrs young!

My 1989 Taurus was dying slowly, so I researched a ton of vehicles.

As soon as I saw the xB I knew what I was going to get.

A year and a lot of money later I still love it!!!!

this is such a cool thread, ive read every single story

We were in San Antonio escaping from the Seattle rainy during President's Day weekend in 2004 when we saw our first Scion xB while waiting to cross the street. Both of us looked at each other and grinned. One year later, we drove our RS2 home!

A neighbor worked for a Toyota dealer and brought one home when they first came out.
I always thought they were cute.
About 6 months ago I was convincing a co-worker it would be the perfect car for him...
Well....
I convinced myself in the process :lalala: ...
There you have it.

WW 8)

i first saw a Toyota bB when i was in Hong Kong on August of 2002, learning how to drive a stick shift in a small parking lot at night. that is when i just fell in love with small cars. i saw a turbo Honda Jazz circling around the parking lot, the bov it made was sweet!

when i went to the Los Angeles auto show in 2004, i cant believe that it would come into the states. that was when i decided that the Scion xB will be my next car...

I needed a disposeable car, a beater car. For home depot runs, something cheap, reliable and good on gas... The xB does these things well and its fun to drive

I completely forgot to mention!!!!!!

I live in Manhattan. I was looking at the new civic also before I found the xB but insurance on a FACKING CIVIC WAS GOING TO BE ABOUT $2,700 FOR 6 MONTHS! AND I HAVE A CLEAN RECORD, 25 YEARS OLD, BUT THIS IS MY FIRST EVER CAR INS. POLICY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The best policy for an xB, via Progressive, is going to be about $1,100/6 months or so. THAT'S LESS THAN HALF THE PRICE OF INSURING A CIVIC.

stupid insurance requirements.....

Insurance, please man. I was buying a 1983 twin turbo DeLorean and no one would insure it. (30mph bumpers but at 35mph head on, the panels apparently pop and trap the occupants)

I was told, this is a few years back, to buy a Subaru.

Glad you got a good deal on the box insurance.

I first saw them at the Detroit show in 2003, and I hated it. Then I saw them outside the Sprite Remix tour, and someone was airbrushing the sides of the xB. Still hated the xB, but started to like the xA (thought it looked like a mini-Matrix). I had my heart set on a Matrix XRS as my next car (the Focus was REALLY ____ing me off), but then I started doing my research on Scions, and I really started liking the xB. Funny, I should have known I would. Anything that I hate right away I usually end up liking A LOT in about 6 months. So after reading tons of stuff from this board, taking a few test drives, I finally got my RS2 back in May. I've already got 9K on it, and I couldn't be happier! I originally wanted BOP or TCM, but I'm happy with the RS2 - it gets even more attention than one of the standard colors! Once I move back to PA I can start doing some mods and make the box even more my style!

In April 2004 my wife and I spent a week in Japan visiting our son who was spending a semester in University there (Hikone, Shiga Prefecture.) Our rental car was a Camry sized Toyota.

We quickly found out that on the narrow roads in rural Japan our rental car was really too big. A large percentage of the autos we saw on the road were little boxy things... very strange to the American "eye" ... but certainly the right car considering the high gas prices and road conditions! We commented that we had never seen anything like that in the States.

Not long after returning to the US... we saw a boxy little car around town. What was it? The next time I saw it I went over to inspect it, saw the xB decal, looked it up on the internet... and the "rest is history."

My wife still thinks its ugly but she does like the room and the mileage and the color (blue onyx pearl)... so she acquiesced.

I was in the market for a good,cheap reliable vehicle. They had one where my brother worked and he was saying it was a great car for the money. I went with his advice.

I've always loved the Japanese micro-cars/vans. When I first saw the xB I thought, "Finally! They've brought them over here!" After a couple used-car disasters, buying a new xB just seemed to make sense---especially since the US won't be getting the Honda That's (which I would buy soley because of its name) and the Nissan Cube is a couple years away....

I do find Scion's marketing to be fairly annoying, although I appreciate them for putting on a free DJ QBert show here in austin!

I first saw it in the NY Auto Show. I'm not sure if it was in the late 90's or early 2000's but it was definitely a few years before it was released in CA. It was just sitting there right outside, in one corner. One nameless booth, no personnel. It was black and all windows were heavily tinted. The doors were lock so I can't see the inside. There were cards beside it that you fill up if you want to get more info (which I did). I just remember seeing the bB emblem. I did a search for bB when I got home and found out about the Toyota bB. I loved it. I was not sure if I will ever see here in the US so I just bought a 1/24 Tamiya kit from a Japan Hobby store.

What got me was the shape. I like box cars. The price and being a Toyota, sold it for me. I sold the SUV and bought it.

Now my wife uses it and I'm stuck with a '91 Corolla. My wife said that she'll get a new car and give me the xB when the Corolla breaks down. 260,000 miles and it's still running, the Corolla refuses to die.

I went to a car show fall of 2003, there was an Xb there. At first i absolutely hated it. I still had my integra at the time, and had just finished the project so i didn't plan on buying anything anytime soon anyway. Well, car was totalled (not my fault, long story. no racing envolved..no showing off either) Anyway, so after that happend i was looking into several cars. Well, i ran accross some stuff on the Xb and started looking into it for fun. The more i looked at it and read, the more i fell in love. Summer of 2004 i bought my box and i've been pretty happy with it. I really wish we had a higher redline, but, thats a typical toyota for you.

What really turned me on was the fact it was 100% japan made, light weight and small. I'm a big fan of light weight, compact cars. It grew on me and fell in love.

Cya

I flew back home (to Sacramento) to visit some friends for a week back in July of 2003 and one of my good buddies that I was staying with, we actually went over to his dads and the next door neighbor had a BSP xB and I remember going over and looking at and I though how strange it looked. I kept thinking to myself while looking at that "this is weird looking" well it wasn't until very late 2004 that I happed to catch the episode of Pimp my Ride when they did the made over the xB. the car intrigued me then. Didn't like everything they did to that box but after that I started doing research on the box and knew that I had to have one.

I've been a car nut for years and gobble up "Motor Trend" monthly. An article about stability control, regarding its safety benefit and the reluctance of the car companies to provide it, even as an option got my attention. They mentioned that it was standard on the $14K Scion xB, why isn't it even available on cars and SUV's costing twice as much? This was before the Scions had arrived on the East Coast, but I remembered that fact. Fast forward about a year later, the first xB I saw in person was a BCP parked at my work, a bus company parking lot. I worked late shift so it was about 10:30 PM when I pulled up my bus to the pump, with that xB just a few feet away. So away from prying eyes in a well lit lot I gave this strange car a good look over. The shape was a little startling at first, but it really looked roomy inside, efficient in packaging like my old VW Bus. So I started doing some research and discovered the car gets 30 MPG+. So I prevailed on my long suffering wife to go to a dealer and see one. Her reaction was "so, how much does this cost"? I said about 14K. She says "yah, but how much is it with the stuff we want on it? I said about 14K. She says, that's a value. We drove it and liked it. This was about six months before we were ready to buy. So, on I go with my incessant research trying to find another car to consider. All I came up with was the xA. But the xB won by a nose, mostly because of the VSC and interior space. We've had ours two weeks. It's great, and my wife was convinced even more when it gobbled up our family of 4 plus my mother-in-law, and we were all comfy. I'd do it all over again.

For one I was introduced to them from the open deck bit char-g. I used to play with them a lot, and the stuff i learned/saw about the open deck was crazy.

Some guys I knew came back from Haight st where they were talking about test driving some new car. Then I was given more info, on it, and I was hooked. It fit my distinct tastes, it was economical, and it was spacious for my activities and friends. I always wore wild clothes, crazy colored or patterned shoes, etc. I was only probably 15 or 16 then without a license. When I finally got it earlier this year, it wasn't a surprise to most of the people who knew me, they expected me to end up with some crazy car. HOwever, if the Jazz was released here sooner, I know I probably would ahve swooped on that isntead.

I've always been interested in "different" or "orphan cars. My first car was a Nash Metropolitan. I've als had many English cars such as the MGB.

I had recently paid off my '97 Mustang Convwertible and had promised myself not to have another car payment for at least a couple of years. There was an XB parked near my girlfriends house and I just kept checking it out over a couple of weeks.

We were driving by a Toyata dealer and stopped and test drove an XB just for fun. I was hooked. About three weeks later I found what I was looking for at another dealer; a 5-sp cameo met.

The XB reminds me of my old VW Bus as well as an English Mini, but built right.
Going on 4 months and it still brings a smile on my face when I drive it.

Do you find yourself looking for that special no door ding parking place? And when you walk away from your XB, do you turn around and look at it?

'05 5speed cameo met. Tien's, Koni's,Colgon Bra, XM, Viper, Arm rest, Gauges. Lisc 2GOBX.

How did you get first interested in buying an xB? [snip happens] Any other experiences on getting hooked on the xB Scion??? PJRACER
It's ARLYN's fault!

Arlyn Ness, a salesman at Rochester Toyota, that is.

Arlyn's a heck of a nice guy and a good salesman, meaning he's low pressure and informed and very good to work with, and we bought a 2005 Camry from him in the fall of 2004. Last summer I was getting the oil changed on the Camry and chatting with Arlyn and I mentioned that I'd REALLY like something to replace the clunky '96 Grand Voyager that I'd been driving to and from work. He led me over to this funny looking boxy thing and the first thing that escaped my lips was "WHAT IS THAT?" but when I looked and sat inside I was interested. The next oil change I went on a test drive and it was all over, so this fall we ordered our 2006 xB in Camo. Arlyn took the van in trade and I don't miss it at all . . . . This is the MOST practical and second most FUN car I've ever owned! (That 240Z was more fun, but for different reasons. Far better looking too, but that's another subject ;^)

We had seen some xB's on the road and my wife always said she likes them. I work for a Mazda-Lincoln-Mercury dealership and we had one come in from an auction. I checked it out and liked what I saw. I did some internet research and found that it costs under $15k, gets 30+ MPG and has as much room interior room as our current car (Lincoln Continental).
For the price of a new one, it didn't make sense to buy a used one so we bought a new one.

Reasons, in order:
1. styling and roominess
2. gas mileage
3. price

I had a 93 thunderbird that had over 100,000 miles on it. still ran good and i loved that car! However I kept my eyes open for something new. I was going to work one morning and passed a toyota dealership and saw this freaked out 2005 black box on the lot. I stopped and checked it out. Drove it around the block and was hooked!! I thought I would get a black one But saw a Blue onyx that looked to me looked better than the black. I purchased it in sept 04 and havent had a problem yet.

Do you find yourself looking for that special no door ding parking place? And when you walk away from your XB, do you turn around and look at it?


every time i drive it. I'll walk an extra 200 ft to park in a corner spot where i can tuck in as close to the curb as possible and away from people