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We recently heard that Toyota could be looking to shrink its network of Scion dealerships, and now Automotive News is reporting that the automaker has officially given its dealers the green light to dump Scion without any penalties. Currently, Scion has about 1,000 dealers, yet our report from August 8 quotes an industry analyst as suggesting a healthier figure would be between 350 and 500 outlets. But before its current dealers make a decision on whether or not to get rid of the youth-oriented brand, Toyota also showed off a couple potential future products in the pipeline.

The FT-86 Open Concept shown above was revealed back in March at the Geneva Motor Show, and AN says that an FR-S convertible was driven on stage at a recent national Toyota dealer meeting in Atlanta. There has still been no definitive word one way or another as to whether the droptop model will be built, but it could be a good way to follow up to the popular FR-S coupe. Another possible future product is a subcompact crossover, which was shown in drawing form at the meeting, presumably aimed at small CUVs like the Nissan Juke and the upcoming Honda CUV based on the Fit, a model recently previewed by the automaker's Urban SUV concept.Toyota gives dealers permission to drop Scion, shows them FR-S droptop, Juke rival first originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.



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kustom_play

Scion has not been cool for a long time. They should of dropped scion and made the FRS a toyota. The XB2 killed scions cool rep. Car and driver said it was the young persons mini van.

FreedomPenguin

Well doesnt help that majority of scion scene are reckless, and immature by racing and causing wrecks on the road, and huge into the young rice scene, fast and furious rings a bell.

Not all, but you cannot say that they don't.

kustom_play

I agree 100% I have seen a lot of rice including a backwards huge pedestal spoiler on a TC once. For every clean TC there are 9 riced out ones. This whole "stance" craze has ruined a lot of suspensions and diminished handling