I pulled my xB into the parking garage this morning at work and as I got out noticed a guy who had just parked too checking out my ride. We silently walked to our office building and got on the same elevator. As the doors shut he said:

Q. How do you like your Element?

A. It's not an Element; it's a Scion xB made by Toyota. They just became available in our region in June. I love it; it's a great car.

Q. So it's a Hybrid?

A. Nope, gasoline engine; but it gets great gas mileage.

Q. Oh; thanks.

He got off on a accounting firm's floor; I smiled to myself. :) RPM

D'OH...

I hope he doesn't do your accounting... :wink:

They are hybrids - they run on a mixture of gas and style 8)

i got that question too is it a hybrid...

i'll just smile and walk away, make that drive away

oh yea, I got that question a lot too, if it is a hybird....
someone actually made a comment on my car... saying that it looks like a USPS's truck ........ x_x

Most people around here don't know what the "F" an XB is. They ask and I tell them "it's a Scion XB". They say "A what?" Then I say it's made by Toyota, then they're like "oh yeah!" Stupid people!!

oh yea, I got that question a lot too, if it is a hybird....
someone actually made a comment on my car... saying that it looks like a USPS's truck ........ x_x


I got that constantly, especially when I first got the car 4-5 months ago.

I've given up explaining "Scion" -- I just tell people it's a Toyota. As far as I'm concerned, it's a Toyota. "Scion" is just a marketing scheme, not a real brand IMO.

As far as the hybrid thing, I got so tired of being asked, I just started giving out random answers. Sometimes I'd say yes. Sometimes I'd tell people its electric. I told one guy it was hydrogen powered. LMAO.

:twisted:

Maybe I'm not helping the cause by spreading disinformation, but it gets old being questioned all the time, I just wanted to have a little fun with it....hehehe

It happened again Friday morning...
I pulled my xB into the parking garage at work and as I got out noticed a different guy who had just parked too checking out my ride. We silently walked to our office building and got on the same elevator. As the doors shut he said:

Q. How do you like your new car?

A. I love it; it's a great car. It's a Scion xB made by Toyota.

Q. So it's a Diesel?

A. Nope, gasoline engine; but it gets great gas mileage.

Q. Oh; thanks.

He got off on a life insurance firm's floor; I smiled to myself. :D RPM

As I was pumping gas into my xB a guy came out and asked if it was electric.

"Yea. It is."

As I was pumping gas into my xB a guy came out and asked if it was electric.

"Yea. It is."
Good one! :lol: :? :lol:

As I was pumping gas into my xB a guy came out and asked if it was electric.

"Yea. It is."

AHHHHHHHHHHH LMAO HAHAHA :lol: :lol: :lol:

my favorate thing to do is right when people put their face against the glass, set the alarm off. they have no clue what to do :lol:

My grandpa thought it was a Crosley (SP?) and that I imported it from Europe. :shock: It does get a wee tiresome with all the questions... But it comes with the territory, I guess...

My grandpa thought it was a Crosley (SP?) and that I imported it from Europe. :shock: It does get a wee tiresome with all the questions... But it comes with the territory, I guess...

what the hell is a crosley??

My brother said the car was an Element ripoff, My wife waves at every person that stares at us now, I have seen a cop nearly drive off the road staring over his shoulder, I could go on forever.

As I was pumping gas into my xB a guy came out and asked if it was electric.

"Yea. It is." :shock: :shock:

OMG ROTFLMAO!!!!!!

As I was pumping gas into my xB a guy came out and asked if it was electric.

"Yea. It is." :shock: :shock:

OMG ROTFLMAO!!!!!!

dang i am still rollin on this one.........

one of the members from chicago was asked one time if it was a hybrid he answered that it was runned by nuclear power and the person said oh wow.i still crack a smile everytime i remember this.........

I tell people it is the new hummer! when the ask what model I tell them H 1 1/2. they walk away thinking it is a new hummer, stupid!

My brother said the car was an Element ripoff, My wife waves at every person that stares at us now, I have seen a cop nearly drive off the road staring over his shoulder, I could go on forever.

The cop part reminds me of when I first got mine. I was getting used to getting tons of looks and stares. We are driving home from dinner and we come up on a Sobriety Checkpoint. They are checking traffic going the other way. I figured I'd get a little attention, but NOBODY even looked at the car. I could've been invisible. they didn't even like wave us on or anything. After a minute, I just drove on thru... :?

I'm seeing a lot more of them on the roads here in the Bay Area, mostly stock.

O/T
what the hell is a crosley??
http://www.marion.lib.in.us/marionpubliclibrarymuseum/images/crosley_2_small.jpg
http://www.ggw.org/freenet/c/cac/SpotLite/DavesLoad2.jpg
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&q=crosley

They make me think of "Walace and Gromit" for some reason.

My grandpa thought it was a Crosley (SP?) and that I imported it from Europe. :shock: It does get a wee tiresome with all the questions... But it comes with the territory, I guess...
Yeah I had some dude ask me if it came from France the other day!! What I really hate is when people call it a van!! :twisted:

My brother said the car was an Element ripoff, My wife waves at every person that stares at us now, I have seen a cop nearly drive off the road staring over his shoulder, I could go on forever.


Tell your brother the bB is older than the Element.

yeah one day there was a guy asked me if it was 6 or 8 cylinders and i told him it was v-12 the guy was like oh f&*6 i said yeap that;s right. :twisted:

My brother said the car was an Element ripoff, My wife waves at every person that stares at us now, I have seen a cop nearly drive off the road staring over his shoulder, I could go on forever.

dude it was so funny cause I debadged my box. when I got pulled over the cop was writting a ticket, then he was comming to the car, looked at the little window thing went back to his car came back and gave me a ticket saying my car was a toyota xB, an there was already a crossed out make. then I told him it was a scion, and he got ____ed at me

these stories are great and all (rest assured i have plenty myself), but what i don't like is having to pay more attention to other drivers to avoid getting my box slammed into. Everyone seems to stop whatever they are doing to look and that includes driving. i have owned my HL since April, and i have come close to getting run over many, many times. you know how it goes, when people turn their heads to look to the side while driving, they inadvertantly start veering in that same direction. I wish the horn had a little more gusto.

i love my box, but i have almost gotten neurotic about keeping lots of distance between me and other drivers. i just don't want to wind up like the others who have posted pictures of their box after getting creamed. How many HL's have we lost already (at least the ones who post on the board), 4? 5?

the attention is great, but rubber necking is dangerous.

:lol:

these stories are great and all (rest assured i have plenty myself), but what i don't like is having to pay more attention to other drivers to avoid getting my box slammed into. Everyone seems to stop whatever they are doing to look and that includes driving. i have owned my HL since April, and i have come close to getting run over many, many times. you know how it goes, when people turn their heads to look to the side while driving, they inadvertantly start veering in that same direction. I wish the horn had a little more gusto.


:lol:

Horn is a quick cheap easy mod. Any neighborhood auto parts store carries a bunch of different types. I swapped my road runner horn out the first week with a "average" sounding horn. Then this past weekend I was at the Dream Cruise here in Detroit and the Chevy "New Revolution" semi was driving by with an air horn you could hear for a mile. Needless to say, the all powerful air horn is on order. Can't wait to use that on someone!

They are hybrids - they run on a mixture of gas and style 8)

Best Line Evar!!1! :lol:

these stories are great and all (rest assured i have plenty myself), but what i don't like is having to pay more attention to other drivers to avoid getting my box slammed into. Everyone seems to stop whatever they are doing to look and that includes driving. i have owned my HL since April, and i have come close to getting run over many, many times. you know how it goes, when people turn their heads to look to the side while driving, they inadvertantly start veering in that same direction. I wish the horn had a little more gusto.


:lol:

Horn is a quick cheap easy mod. Any neighborhood auto parts store carries a bunch of different types. I swapped my road runner horn out the first week with a "average" sounding horn. Then this past weekend I was at the Dream Cruise here in Detroit and the Chevy "New Revolution" semi was driving by with an air horn you could hear for a mile. Needless to say, the all powerful air horn is on order. Can't wait to use that on someone!

i've been thinking about ne of them, let me know how it goes

I find alot of people think it's a six cylinder when I'm showing them the car. :shock:

My friend's neighbor walked over and she asked if the batteries go up front.

I really wanted to say, "Yeah", but told the truth.

i get my many questions, when Im feelin a bit stupid I tell people ''its a daewoo, they're making a comeback''

:D

i get my many questions, when Im feelin a bit stupid I tell people ''its a daewoo, they're making a comeback''

:D

hahah

I never just get a few questions, I don't know what planet you guys are on. I get crowds, i came out from grocery shopping one day after I had just gotten the rims on it and I had 18 people standing there and pointing. I just started carrying business cards from the local dealerships along with brochures. I just hand them out and leave.

I'll answer simple stuff such as:

"do you like it?" "yes"

"does it get good gas mileage?" "not the way I drive it"

"what is it" "it's a scion, it's from toyota, the lexus is toyotas high end, scion is the entry level"

anything more difficult than that or more ignorant than that gets the business card and brochure and i leave.

So I was racking my brain thinking of something worth using my first post to say, and it was delivered to me tonight.

Middle Aged Guy in 7-11 parking lot: "What the hell kinda car is that?"
Me: "It's a Scion xB."
MAG: "Who's it by?"
Me: "Toyota."
MAG: "It looks like some kind of flying car or something."

I was pretty disappointed he didn't ask me what it runs on, I've been dying to tell someone that it has a flux capacitor.

My father since day one said it reminds him of the old milk trucks when he was a kid, after doing an image search on milk trucks :lol: I guess hes not wrong.


http://www.a-victorian-inn.com/the-majestic/milk-truck.jpg

I have a Mercedes Benz hood ornament and trunk star on my debadged xB. last night was a beautiful night. Everyone was driving with windows open. I'm in the right lane heading south on Broad St., Philadelphia, and this white car in the left lane is matching my speed. We get to a stop light that turns green. I have a car stopped in front of me so I can't go yet. The white car with two bros. in it doesn't go either, but there's no one infront of them. I say to my passenger: "I wonder why thy're stopping for a green light.
The next block they slow down and pull behind me. Then they pull up next to me and slightly ahead; then right next to me. They ask me what kind of car it is. I tell them it's a Scion xB. They ask me if Mercedes makes it, because their friend got one, but they didn't know it was a Benz.
I told them that I was just having fun. I said: "This is my $15,000 Benz."
They liked this and said it was a cool idea. They were going to tell their friend he should do this.
About this time the people trapped behind us as we were driving and having a conversation started honking.
That was the first time I've had a pleasant conversation with another driver while moving down Broad St. 8)

Most people think I work for &^$^%&#& gateway!

Ppl with kids in the car seem to like my car.

Next time a nice looker asks I should say "Got Milk?"

BTW - Is the "Got Milk" thing just here in CA or is it elseware too?

its everywhere

quote] dude it was so funny cause I debadged my box. when I got pulled over the cop was writting a ticket, then he was comming to the car, looked at the little window thing went back to his car came back and gave me a ticket saying my car was a toyota xB, an there was already a crossed out make. then I told him it was a scion, and he got ____ed at me[/quote]
What was the ticket for???

As I was pumping gas into my xB a guy came out and asked if it was electric.

"Yea. It is."
I had this happen to me too. I told the guy that I haven't pumped gas in so long that I wanted to remember what it felt like. He looked at me funny then got back into his 18 wheeler and drove off. The guy next to me was cracking up.

dude it was so funny cause I debadged my box. when I got pulled over the cop was writting a ticket, then he was comming to the car, looked at the little window thing went back to his car came back and gave me a ticket saying my car was a toyota xB, an there was already a crossed out make. then I told him it was a scion, and he got ____ed at me
What was the ticket for???

I was running 11 cold cathode tubes and my car was too bright, stupid ticket, _______ cop :evil:

Yah ... but the battery is up front (just being a jerk)...];8D

on reply to ...

"My friend's neighbor walked over and she asked if the batteries go up front.

I really wanted to say, 'Yeah', but told the truth."

I've have gotten a lot of stares, waves, thumbs up
and a host of questions and comments as well...

Is it really fast?

Is that a baby hummer?

Is it a concept car?

Oh my god. No car should be that square!

Is that mini-cooper truck?

Is it a 4WD mini SUV?

Reminds me of an old British car.

Looks like a Lapin Spiano.
(Asian Kid. I asked him to spell it so I could look it up)
http://www.k-speed.com/lapin_spiano/index.html
Kinda looks cool in a retro sort of way.

My favorite was at the gas station where a guy was asking general question
while filling up his huge SUV. He was shocked when I told him it gets up to 34 MPG.
I said ...
“Yeah… not bad for a square car. Just think how much better it would be
if they made it aerodynamic.”


:lol:

As I was pumping gas into my xB a guy came out and asked if it was electric.

"Yea. It is."

*here's your sign....*

That Lapin Spiano thing looks really cool! I would LOVE to have one - that'd be so f-ing sweet - I've got a 60' Chevy Truck and that would be perfect to sit between my HL and my Truck! :D

I agree, the Lapin Spiano is a very cool looking box.
Sort of like an old Ganster car.

It wouldnt be too hard to make the xB look like it though...

http://www.k-speed.com/lapin_spiano/image/main.jpg

Taken from Autoindex.org (http://www.autoindex.org/bodies.plt?no=777&___=85)
Info: Alto Lapin was released in January 2002, and soon proved its popularity among female consumers. Sales of the vehicle have surpassed the Wagon R (Suzuki’s best-selling model) level in recent months. The box-shaped minivehicle features a roomy interior and is equipped with specially designed parts in both exterior and interior, which are similar to household appliances or furniture which evoke the image of daily life.

So that's why I like it so much... it reminds me of my toaster!

:lol: