‘First 86′ Lets You Take Early Delivery Of A Scion FR-S. Maybe.

If your local Scion dealer is about to hit you with a restraining order for bugging him about Scion FR-S availability, here’s some good news: Scion wants to give 86 fans the ability to take early delivery of its FR-S sport coupe. While all the fine print has yet to be inked, here’s what we know about how the “First 86” program will work. Read more…

Video: Turbo Scion FR-S Caught Drifting at Laguna Seca

It is a rather inevitable that we would see the new Scion FR-S, along side of the Subaru BRZ, on the Formula Drift circuits burning up the rear tires. Considering that most Formula D vehicles have a substantial amount of power, the Scion FR-S and Subaru BRZ’s powerplant in its stock form just isn’t going to suffice when it comes to competitive drifting. Motor Trend seems to have captured the Scion FR-S in a turbocharged flavor making rounds at Laguna Seca by what is speculated to be the Scion drift team.

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It’s Official: The U.S. Is Getting The Scion FR-S

By now you’ve seen enough pictures and video of the 2013 Toyota FT 86 / GT 86 and Subaru BRZ to know that there aren’t a lot of differences in styling or specifications between the various brands. Get set to add one more (nearly) identical car to the list, in the form of the Scion FR-S. As we suspected, Scion will use the FR-S to grow sales (and brand awareness) in the United States, which means that you won’t be buying a Toyota FT-86 on these shores. Read more…

2011 Scion tC Review & Test Drive

‘NO BUCKET OF CEMENT’ 

I just finished testing and photographing the all-new 2011 Scion tC sports coupe painted in the new ‘Cement’ color and had to laugh when I first looked at the Scion tag with the key and read that the color was the new ‘Cement’.  The all-new Scion tC sure is no bucket of cement although the light gray or silver color does look like newly laid cement on a sidewalk.

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2012 Scion iQ Priced From $16k; Will Personality Help Sell It?

On paper, the specs for Scion’s new minicar, the iQ, don’t seem all that impressive. It delivers decent fuel economy (37 mpg combined), but it’s not that much better than the similarly priced Ford Fiesta, which is imminently more practical. It’s not even close to the lowest priced car on the market, since the new Nissan Versa sedan undercuts it by $5,000 in base trim. It comes well equipped, but so does the new Hyundai Accent, which costs just a few hundred dollars more in range-topping SE trim. Sure, the 2012 Scion iQ is small enough to make a Mini seem like an SUV and it’s got the whole cute thing going for it, but will novelty be enough to sell units? Read more…

Scion FR-S Concept (Toyota FT-86 Transformed ‘again’) Walk-Around Videos

The 2011 New York Auto Show has brought us some interesting vehicles, one of them being the Scion FR-S concept which is an evolution of the Toyota FT-86 that we first saw just before the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show. Since then, Toyota has tweaked the design over and over making us enthusiasts truly impatient and ready to see this bad-boy on the road finally. Two new walk-around-videos have been released showing many of the highlighted design cues of the new Scion FR-S concept. If the production version is anything like what we see here, then Toyota may have a winner in my book. Please don’t fu*k this up Toyota! Enjoy the videos below!

This Is Scion’s FT-86 (the Scion FR-S)

The official unveiling of the Scion FR-S is scheduled for later today, but that hasn’t prevented images from turning up on the internet ahead of time. The car that will be revealed in New York today is officially listed as a concept, so read into that what you will. The styling has been toned down a bit from the FT-86 II Concept that Toyota displayed in Geneva, but the latest concept looks a long way from production to me. The blacked out windows say “don’t expect an accurate rendering of a production interior”, while the sharply arched and creased front fenders would be difficult (expensive, actually) to put into production. As Autoblog’s Zach Bowman points out, those enormous wheels will never see production and the side view mirrors can’t meet DOT standards. Read more…

Scion Teases FT-86 II (FR-S FT-S) Concept Car for 2011 New York Auto Show

The much anticipated official reveal of the upcoming Toyota FT-86 (FT-86 II, FR-S, FT-S) production vehicle is starting to take a different direction because Scion is now teasing what appears to be the FT-86 concept slated to wear a Scion badge at the 2011 New York Auto Show this month.

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