Scion xB Rated 6th Most Disappointing Car Redesign

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Are we not allowed to post in Newsworthy anymore?

 

I guess if it's not good news it's not newsworthy :-(

That and it's a bit of

 

The Toyota Celica deserved the number one spot on that list.

 

The celica had a superb engine, bit the transmission was terribly matched, with shifts that threw the engine out of its powerband.

 

i agree with the xB as a 1st gen owner. No longer was it unique

 

it was also light, and looked good. it was definitely an improvement on any US celica

 

the first gen xB rock. why the hell did if any onwer of 1st gen help create a ____ of car as 2nd gen xB . I wen to look at it to buy had the weird sensation in my gut that said get the hell out of car. So i did not buy the 2nd. But am looking to buy a cube

 

Wow. . . it's really telling when nobody bothers half your product line is discontinued and nobody cares. Even here at the biggest Scion

 

Sad but true... It's as if most owners of the original lineup have given up on any Corporate return to Scion's roots & heritage.

 

I love my 2006 xB and I love my new 2012 xD. We looked a getting another xB but the new design was not what we were looking for. And the fuel economy went way down in the new design.

 

It never ceases to amaze me just how badly redesigned the xB was for 2008. They completely took away everything that was great about the xB and made it ordinary. Every year that goes by I expect someone to wake up at Scion and bring back the car that took the world by storm but they seem okay with just a boring station wagon that they made it into.

Then I was counting the other day, did these brainiacs seriously only have the original xB for 4 years and now are working on the 6th year of the redesign? Don't cars usually go 5 years per design? Cool let's cut short the good one and take the crap ordinary design an extra year just to rub it in.

How can a company full of intelligent people all work together and allow such an incredibly bad marketing design take place? xB used to be the car everyone talked about. They made it into just another boring car no one notices.

RS9.0 they bring back hot lava, which is my car color from RS1.0 that I still own. It's the color the drew me in and made me an xB fanatic. I Had to have it. Going back to the original RS1.0 color hot lava would of been the perfect time to scrap this ordinary redesign and go back to the square toaster milk truck that everyone noticed. Right? Nope... not scion. They just slapped it on another year of blah boring resigned crap.

Is there any hope they stop this and give us the real xB back?