I was hoping to jump back into the SL forums, after a long time away, about being how happy I was that my family was finally a Scion family after my wife's sunfire (pos... /kick) finally bit the big one. After months of gentle prodding and not wanting to oversell the brand, once she took a test drive she agreed that she liked the ride and couldn't beat the options for the price. So two weeks ago, her '08 xD sat side by side against my '05 xA. Very happy.

Enter this past weekend. We took our 22mo-old daughter to Sugarbush for a long weekend, which if you don't know is a ski resort in upstate VT. On sunday we were driving home when my wife suddenly had to pull emergency maneuvers to avoid an accident in front of us. Enter the Jeep we met while trying to avoid the *other* accident......



Our insurance company told us today that it is NOT being totaled, so we await the final damages amount once it goes up on a lift. All I can say is thank god everyone from both cars walked away from the accident. Our daughter's car seat did it's job to the 9's, my wife has a scrape/bruise on her right knee from the impact against the center console, and I walked away with only mild neck pain which has already been green-lighted by the docs pending 7-10 days of OTC pain meds.

While I'm extremely upset about the whole incident, I do want to give a HUGE shout-out to Scion for making one hell of a solid car. My xA was rear-ended last year and held up beautifully with only the bumper needing to be replaced, and while my wife's new car is going to need a lot of work, it's amazing to look at the outside and realize that I was sitting in the passenger's seat and walked away. From the inside, you couldn't even really tell how bad the impact was since nothing had truly collapsed into the vehicle - the different pieces of the door all kind of popped off each other, but there was no real "intrusion" into the passenger space which helped to keep us all safe.

My wife also has a habit of naming her cars appropriately to the color they are, but she likes to spend some time with them before a name comes to her. An old car was "Black Beauty", her last one the "Silver Bullet", and the xD..... now "Blue Crush"

 

wow dude, that just sucks, but at least you and your family are ok.

 

Ouch! It's good that you are all OK. Scions do seem to hold their own in a worst case scenario.

"Blue crush."

 

Wow, that sucks. Glad to see that everyone is ok. That is definately going to be alot of work. Looks like a new door, hood, front bumper, headlight, passenger axle, hubcap, wheel, sideskirt, mirror, and the car god only know what else. Surprised it is not totaled. Hopefully the bodyshop will do an awesome job and get it back to you asap

 

Glad ur all ok..poor little xD

 

Wow glad your family is ok. Now I know what my car might look like in that type of accident... No but seriously, Toyotas do make good cars and really happy to know that the xD can handle a Jeep.

 

so.. is this officially the first xD with accident?

 

wow man sorry about the accident.

glad to hear everybody is ok. (that is the most important part)

nice to know you had a solid little car protecting you. curious as to whether the side air bags ever went off?

anyway hope its fixed soon and everyone is feeling better

with a little time and im sure some aggravation your car will be as good as new.

 

good to know you are all ok and the car did its job. would be interested to see what needs to be done to fix. I imagine if it was a head on collision damage to the engine would have totalled it.

 

wow! i say the same as everyone else- i'm glad everyone's ok.

thanks for sharing. it's good to know that the xD is made of quality materials.

 

OMG..I was telling my Dad how happy I was to know my car could stand up to a Jeep..Then he looks at the picture--^ and kills my moment by saying "You dont really know that..the jeep could have been going 15 miles an hour".....Wow..