Scionic

Do you think K-cars are the next revolution in the automotive industry? If so what companies do you see bringing them over?

I mean Scion's aren't the first and I don't think they will be the last of the "big little car" revolution. What do you guys think will be next car aside from the Honda Fit coming out.

Also if you can post pics of nice K-Cars that you have seen.

highend

Stuff like this?

Or

HotBox

i vite WTH is a K car
care to explan

highend

Dang, look at this one!

I dunno even know if this is what u mean, but I did an image search on google and came up with those. tiny ___ cars!

Genesis

I dunno. Toyota brought over the xB and the xA, then they introduced a NEW model. SO what gives?

WAS Scion just one man dream, then taking away by corporate america?

I think as K car enthusiast, we should be outrage at Corporate Toyota introducing the TC to the scion line up?

But back to your question... AS TOYOTA RE INTRODUCE THE K CAR TREND, THEY ALSO DEMENISHED IT BY INTRODUCING THE TC. SO I ASK WHY WOULD ANY OTHER COMPANY SEE SUCESS IN BRINGING MORE K CARS OVER, IF EVEN TOYOTA DOES NOT SEE A FUTURE IN THEM?

Pablo_xB

I think Toyota wants the tC to be a kick ___ coupe, and I don't think you can have a K car be a sweet coupe without making look like it came out of some cheesy 80s cartoon. I think they wanted the tC to be a somewhat normal coupe.

MrSmiley

every time I hear k-car I thing of the chitty cars crysler came out with in the 70's and 80's that had a plastic K emblem stuck at the end of the model name ... i.e. Reliant K ..

toybox1

a K-car is any car with 150cc or smaller motor

dinkjs

If ya put 20's on them....then they would be used in rap video's....i wanna see one in the flesh

scionlife

Subcompact Culture

They are actually 660ccs or less. :wink:

I think they're too underpowered for the majority of U.S. buyers. Also, they'd have a hard time meeting U.S. emissions specs. Even though they are über small, the high-revving turbo engines produce more of a certain pollutant (because of high engine temps) than a gas-guzzluing V-8. (I can't remember exactly what pollutant it is).

Plus, I think they're too small to be widely accepted in the U.S. When you have monsterous Hummer H2s being driven around by soccer moms on their cell phones trying to drink coffee and smoke a cigarettes, I think that thought alone would deter many people from buying cars as small as the Kei cars. :P

Too bad, though. I love 'em. A turbo 660cc engine would be fun IMHO.

randode

iTrader: (-2)

nice fog lights yo.

Mr_scion

i dont think k car are going to be that big here in the us all the older people like the big ___ tahos and stuff like that and when u tell them it only has 100 or so hp the will tell u with out driveing it that it is way to slow

hnefrdo

K cars will, no doubt, gain popularity and availibility in the US.

Scionic

True true but it seems that people are kind of reverting back to smaller cars with big space with better fuel economy or at least opting to Hybrids now.

In all respect I would call our Scions (not counting the tC of course) the K-cars of the US since there presently isn't any other smaller displacement cars. I mean even the supposed small class cars are coming out with huge engines now (Suzuki Aerio, Mazda 3)

Anyway just wondering and yes I know the K-car is the ugly bastard child of Lee Iacocca but I'm talking in regards to the Japanese K-Car movement.

dinkjs

Would a Mini Cooper be considered a K-car...they are pretty tiny

JDMxB

No, a Kei Car like someone has already mentioned must have an engine smaller than 660cc--which in my opinion would never catch on nor fly here in the states. Why you ask?

Well, our highways and streets are much more elaborate and allow higher speeds of travel then the overseas counterparts, making K class cars almost "too slow" to be on US roads.

Also, people are going towards more fuel effieciency, but this is one step that most aren't likely to take. The xB isn't really a Kcar...it's a tad too big to be considered one actually, but it is the closest thing we have to resembling a J spec Kcar.

Also, with our govt crash testing system, I seriously have my doubts about whether the new Gen of Kcar's will pass or not...

As a country...we aren't poised to have these types of vehicles available as a mainstream form of transportation just yet.

Scionic

Leave it up to J to put it in perspective.

Well put, bro. I know school has got that brain of yours going because that's some articulated writing.

So I guess our cars are K-cars prodigies or vice versa.

Scionic

Here's a better article to sorta explain the Kei Car and it's relation to our Scions.

http://www.latimes.com/classified/au...autos-highway1

fr130

ford pondering Youth Oriented cars i think the engines are classified as 660cc

Autoweek article:

http://www.autoweek.com/cat_content...._code=05186603

Possible Ford/Mazda "boxes":
Spiano SS, http://www.spiano.mazda.co.jp/ss.html


AZ-Wagon, http://www.az-w.mazda.co.jp/


"Pure Pricing Policy" with ford too? :?: