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Old Dec 23, 2008 | 03:12 AM
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I'm not feeling it either. The rear end does look like a mix of a BMW and a Hyundai.

The wheels look OK.
Old Dec 23, 2008 | 03:14 AM
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idk for me that thing screams celica
to bad its been delayed
Old Dec 23, 2008 | 03:20 AM
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Well I hope they use this extra time to improve on the body style. That thing is just ugly.
Old Dec 23, 2008 | 04:08 AM
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Its a sketch people. It is sad if this is true but I am sure if it is RWD and around 20k and they change the design a lil it will sell nicely. Just throw some nice 18's and a lip kit and it will look 20 times better even if it looks like that. Id rock it cause most people prolly wouldnt know what it was and would be checking out you exhaust as you go by. LOL
Old Dec 23, 2008 | 04:08 AM
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yay continue the tC!
Old Dec 23, 2008 | 01:55 PM
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Not such bad news, because that thing is FUGLY.

Note to Toyota/Subaru: Eviscerate the jackass that designed that thing and come up with a new design.
Old Dec 23, 2008 | 03:33 PM
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There has been about a dozen different sketches of this thing. I wouldn't go with any of those sketches just yet.
Old Dec 23, 2008 | 03:37 PM
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this just might be my next car
Old Dec 23, 2008 | 04:44 PM
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Originally Posted by scionboi06
it looks like a ford escort zx2!!!!!!!! ewwww!!!!!!
my thoughts exactly....eww im all set
Old Dec 23, 2008 | 04:49 PM
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we have this posted twice. posted in the AM. O well

https://www.scionlife.com/forums/vie...006&highlight=
Old Dec 23, 2008 | 09:06 PM
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it's the Lexus SC/Soarer all over again. is this what it coulda looked liek if it hadn't been turned into a convertible?

Old Dec 23, 2008 | 10:11 PM
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Aside from the front end, that thing looks WAY better than the tC in every way, and it's RWD. Go ahead, flame me.
Old Dec 23, 2008 | 11:33 PM
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The Soarer fricken rocks. And it kinda does look like a newer version. Im down.
Old Dec 24, 2008 | 02:11 PM
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FAIL!!!

im saving up for the 370z.
Old Dec 24, 2008 | 03:37 PM
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just think
Old Dec 24, 2008 | 06:44 PM
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Oh wait! So this vehicle won't be the replacement for the tC then? Oh my!

Isn't that what I've been saying since MAY?? Yeah, nobody listens.

Also, I still say this is going to come out expensive and with a Lexus badge.

-Alex
Old Dec 24, 2008 | 10:06 PM
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the tC aint going anywhere for many more years to come
Old Dec 25, 2008 | 07:59 AM
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The picture is a fake!
Old Dec 25, 2008 | 11:00 PM
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Originally Posted by scionboi06
it looks like a ford escort zx2!!!!!!!! ewwww!!!!!!
X2, escort front with tiburon sides and kia rear.
Old Dec 26, 2008 | 10:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Beantowntc
Originally Posted by scionboi06
it looks like a ford escort zx2!!!!!!!! ewwww!!!!!!
my thoughts exactly....eww im all set
do you even know what "artist's conception" means??!?


on a serious note, guess it's official that my next car will not be from the Toyota/Scion/Lexus family... Oh well, sorry Toyota/Scion. You achieved the first part of your goal (getting people who wouldn't buy a Toyota to buy a Toyota product), but completely, utterly, and TOTALLY FAILED at the second part of that, providing products that will keep me in the Toyota family. You've offered zero since first producing the tC (and I'll include the bloated T2B and xD) that is at all exciting, interesting or novel. You've watered down what was once a cool, edgy brand by trying to appeal to greater amounts of people, and now this.

Congratulations, Toyota, you've successfully Saturn'ified the brand.




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