I'm curious how scion is doing with the xD because I've only seen one...maybe 2 of them on the road and that was around a scion/toyota dealership, so someone may have been test driving it, instead of actually owning it. Anyone have any numbers? Any thoughts?

 

I don't know that I much care how popular this car gets. Sure, I hope Toyota doesn't drop the car due to lack of sales- that might make service more difficult in the future- but otherwise I rather like driving an unusual car.

I've seen only one other on the road in our town. And a couple of xB2s.

 

if thats the case, it should be a collectors car come 30 years from now

 

I've seen a handful on the road so far. Same with the new xB's.

 

I've seen a few. I know a couple people that have one.

 

xD sales for September were approximately 2703, and in August approximately 2854 were sold. These numbers were taken from Toyota's news page. Exact numbers were not revealed, and the numbers above were deduced by subtracting the xB and tC numbers from the total Scion sales for each month. Those total sales numbers could include the last xA's, but I doubt there were very many, if any sold in August or September.

http://www.toyota.com/about/news/cor...2-1-sales.html

http://www.toyota.com/about/news/cor...4-1-sales.html

 

I'd certainly say they were selling well...at least in northeastern Ohio. As soon as a dealer gets one in stock, it's gone. I had to wait over a month for mine. And it will be a while before you start seeing them on the road as they are very rare right now. I've only seen two xD's other than mine, and they were both at the dealer. For right now, it's pretty cool having a car almost no one else has.

 

I've seen a few on the road, a red, a white and a blue, No really. red white and blue.

 

I've seen around 4 on the road around me. Wish I didn't because I'd like to be "that" car haha and be able to get stuff for it from meets lol. Ah how I would like money to mod my baby...

 

You should still get stuff at shows, i haven't seen (m)any at shows.

 

I see new xBs all the time now but the xDs I've seen on the road could be counted on one hand.

 

MTD for the xD as of 10/30/2007 is 1,836 units

 

i'm not that interested in seeing many on the road either
i had a tC and it seemed like everyone and their mother had one of those... it got old after a while.

 

I've seen two on the road. It's what made me seriously look at one in person. The car looks very different to my eyes in person than in photos.

 

Although my dealer swears xDs are selling very well, I have not seen any in the wild (in SE Florida). I see a lot more Mazda3s HBs, and a few Fits, flitting around, but no xDs. Having a unique car is good, except when trying to parts and repairs done well and within a budget.

 

Please keep in mind the downside of a small sales base. For those in the mod community, without a solid market base the turbo's, S/C's, cat-backs, suspension and interior mods will be slow in coming. Then again, if you can afford to or have the skilkl set needed to go the custom route, you will have a truly unique vehicle. I've been waiting to see if something comes out for the 1.8L, it seems to have nice potential but alas, nothing yet.

Also, informal numbers may be gotten from ScionLife registrations of xD's, has anyone done a correlation on xB and tC sales and SL members?

 

As of 10/31/2007 MTD sales are as follows
Scion xA 37
Scion xB 4,163
Scion tC 4,373
Scion xD 2,022

Historically, in 2006:

xA: 32,365
xB: 60,529
tC: 78,636

2005:
xA: 27,821
xB: 53,169
tC: 73,865

2004:
xA: 24,111
xB: 46,558
tC: 27,862

and finally in 2003:
xA: 3,962
xB: 6,936

 

+1 I've seen dozens of xB2s and less than 10 xDs.

 

I've seen two xDs on the road here in Portland. I saw one last weekend in San Francisco. Im glad the car I own isn't on every street you turn on.

 

the dealership I work at can't keep them on the lot. I bought mine here last week, and we haven't got another one in yet. They've never lasted more than a couple of days, though.