The only external ID on my xB is a bB badge on the front and the tiny Toyota markings on the windows.

So, there I was, sitting in my car outside the laundramat, listening to Rage Against the Machine as my dog's bed pads washed. A customer pulled up next to me and gave the car a look as he walked in. Then he came back out, walked slowly all around the car, said nothing -- even though I was sitting in it -- and went back in.

A few moments later, the manager came out, walked all around the car, said nothing -- even though I was sitting in it -- and then walked around the car again.

Then the first guy came out and the two of them scratched their heads for a bit and walked around the car again. It's all I could do to keep from laughing.

Finally I get out and explained the xB to them in the easiest way possible. "It's a Toyota."

"O-o-o-o-h, a Toyota."

I showed them the interior, let them sit inside to see how roomy it is, told them the price, mpg and all that.

Just another day with the xB.

 

i got the same kind of reaction when i was waiting for my food outside of an Applebee's.

 

I still have my scion badge and people still ask me, "Is that one of those new Hondas?

-THE DON

 

I get stares that's about it nobody really asks me about my XA.
But when my wife drives it she has said that people ask her what is it
who makes it
and how many mpg does it get and my wifes just tells them
I don't know anything it's my husbands I just drive it.
and she always get scare because she says that there are people that come up to the window and she doesn't see them and they scare the ____ out of her...............JUAN

 

I often get asked "What is that thing?" Whenever random people ask me about my xB, its always referred to as a "thing"...of course it is usually followed by "Is it electric?" I guess we all get that one, though.

 

i have simalar experences and last week i was pulled over
for what i dont know officer slowly walking up to the vehicle
im scrambiling for my ins/reg/dl wondering what the hell did
i do.....my insurance rates.....my stellar driveing record.........WHAT DID I DO.....i was wondering in my mind i roll the window down "hey sorry its the only way i could make you stop safely what kind of car is this? ......scion? he pronounced correctly....releaved i explan i let him sit inside
the 6.3 giant was very impressed and he said i love this car!! who makes it toyota?? he was so happy

and so was i allways happy to help the po po

 

:D

kacosta that story should make squirrel's day.

 

I had the same thing in CLT...I was at Carmel Commens. Before I get out of my XB this guy runs up to my car trying to read the badge on the grill and walked around the car and asked what it was and stated he had never seen a car liked this and kept me for 15 min for XB Q&A

 

I get 'the question' all the time. If I am in a mood, I'll talk with them. I swear, I must have sold at least five of these things.

Maybe I should get paid to drive the Box, by SCION.

 

anyone else get those info cards in the mail?

 

i got like 15 of them (2 seperate envelopes .. dont know how many in each)
and yes i did give away few of them already

Agnes

 

That's something, considering Carmel Commons (which the locals pronounce CAR-mul instead of Car-MEL) is in the middle of upper-middle-class suburbia where one is almost obliged by law to aspire to a luxury car or big SUV instead of an econobox.

I live by Freedom Park. Maybe I'll see you around.

 

LOL maybe.....I probably have the only one in the Ballantyne area.....hmmm isn't the Freedom park area upper-middle class suburbia also?..Excepting Eastover which is off the the charts..there youe need a G5 Wagon. And say Carmel..not being of local origin (NYC/NJ) transplant :D

 

you should say why yes it is, but good look finding one of these at the honda dealership

 

Yeah, but we're mostly a bunch of old empty nest hippies with little 60-year-old houses and 10-year-old Volvos.

 

last week at the 86th street parking garage:

She: Is it electric?
Me: No, ma'am, it's a toyota.

 

What is a bb? I thought it was the japanese version of an xb, so why do some of you guys have it? is it available in the west coast or somethign?

 

dude I just got my xB a week ago and I always get people asking me what it is and where I got it, one guy told me thought I was military and he thought I must of just brought a car back from Germany while I was based there. Another good thing is a lot of hot chicks as to look inside and sit down and see how roomy it is :D cant complain there.

 

got a dozen or so... looked at them for a moment, looked in the envelope for my paycheck - it was missing, apparently they forgot to include it. Tossed the stupid ___ info cards and now emptry envelope in the trash can. So... until Toyota sends me a check to cover my time to sell the things, they can sell them their own damn selves.

 

Having an xB has definately deadened my compassion for others. While I fuel is the only time I get the "is it electric?" I just kinda wanna yell at them.

I have leaned to enjoy driving other people's vehicles.....gives me a sense of privacy. I forgot how hard others are looking at me while I drive my FrieghtLiner (xB) around. I start to feel like I am at work with a huge zit on my forehead. Everyone lookin but not saying anything.

Oh well.