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Tcoat · 06-16-2016, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by BDKane01

Hmmm, I have a year left on my contract and apartment lease. How much are IT jobs going for out there?

I have A+, Sec+, and networking exp.

fumanchu1 · 06-16-2016, 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Tcoat

I wish lol

What time you get home btw? I'm impatiently waiting that thread on hobby model building

Tcoat · 06-16-2016, 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by fumanchu1

I wish lol

What time you get home btw? I'm impatiently waiting that thread on hobby model building

Just got here. It is my two hour commute day.

Not going to get it started tonight I guess. Want to get some pics and stuff together. I will holler when I post it.

soulreapersteve · 06-16-2016, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Ashikabi

One of the safer cities in the country. Auto cross monthly in the summer. Road course is about 3hrs away :-/ Toyota dealer is a big pile of shit but there us another one 70 miles away that's fixing my car right now. One tuning shop. Average rent on a small(tiny or shitty) house or 1 bed apt is $700+ it's a decent city if you don't work in manufacturing. I live in a 3500 person town on the Iowa side of the border. All we have here is manufacturing. Property values are super high, nowhere to rent, jobs pay really well. The "town mafia" aka city council are all local business owners so they block any and all new businesses. The town can't grow. There isn't anywhere for new labor to live and no amenities to make people think it would be a good place to live... fuck greedy politician wannabes...

Sweet, thanks for the info!

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Originally Posted by Tcoat

HAH! I wish those certs would net me 1 million dollars! (I essentially have the same cept +1)

wbradley · 06-16-2016, 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by ChrisFL

Most scions are rebranded Toyotas.

The only exception I know of is the tC which was only sold in the U.S. and built on a Toyota sedan platform sold in other markets.

I think some were Daihatsu, perhaps the 1st gen xB.

Calidrifter · 06-17-2016, 03:44 AM

First gen xB in Japan was the Toyota bB. The only US only and therefore actual only Scion car was the tC.

Tcoat · 06-17-2016, 06:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Calidrifter

First gen xB in Japan was the Toyota bB. The only US only and therefore actual only Scion car was the tC.

Nope. The tC was sold as the Toyota Zelas in many countries around the world. They didn't sell them as right hand drives though.
Scion was just a marketing arm and there really never was any real Scion cars just badges and a different sales philosophy.

I chuckled when they made the announcement and said that the entire corporate staff of 35 people would be absorbed into Toyota.

ChrisFL · 06-17-2016, 04:44 PM

The first gen tC was U.S. only though...looks like the second gen became Zelas also

Jeff Lange · 06-18-2016, 01:07 PM

Scion is pretty much all rebranded from something else, mostly Toyota, a couple from Subaru and Mazda. The 1st generation tC was the only model that was Scion exclusive, and only sold in the USA. Everything else was either a Toyota first or came out at the same time as a Toyota and Scion.

Scion was an image brand, a way to offer Toyota models in a youth-oriented manner that allowed maximum personalization by only offering cheaper low-grade monospec versions that could be customized to fit. How low-grade they were seemed to diminish as time went on and they ended up finding themselves in about mid-grade levels from the start without the need to add accessories to bring them up to what people wanted.

I feel that by around 2012-2013, Scion no longer mattered, all of the market research into what Scion owners wanted led them to a certain set of base specs for the cars that put them firmly into Toyota territory. It makes sense that they would now be Toyotas. I'm a bit surprised by the loss of the tC, would have had a nice home in Celica badging or similar.

Scion iA = Toyota Yaris Sedan / Toyota Yaris R / Mazda 2
Scion iQ = Toyota iQ
Scion iM = Toyota Auris
Scion FR-S = Toyota 86 / Toyota GT-86 / Toyota FT-86 / Subaru BRZ
Scion tC = Toyota Zelas (2nd Generation Only)
Scion xA = Toyota ist / Toyota xA
Scion xB = Toyota bB / Toyota Rukus / Toyota Corolla Rumion
Scion xD = Toyota ist / Toyota Urban Cruiser

Jeff

ZX88 · 08-19-2017, 01:17 PM

if anything they will go up. lol

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ChrisFL Member Join Date: Aug 2015 Drives: 2014 FR-S(daily), tC & 3 MR2's prev Location: Tampa Bay, FL Posts: 76 Thanks: 44 Thanked 46 Times in 27 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	The first gen tC was U.S. only though...looks like the second gen became Zelas also __________________ ║]=(86)=[║

06-18-2016, 01:07 PM	#79
Jeff Lange Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2011 Drives: 1986 AE86 GT-S, 2011 Lexus IS250 6M Location: Calgary, Canada Posts: 661 Thanks: 136 Thanked 361 Times in 161 Posts Mentioned: 5 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Scion is pretty much all rebranded from something else, mostly Toyota, a couple from Subaru and Mazda. The 1st generation tC was the only model that was Scion exclusive, and only sold in the USA. Everything else was either a Toyota first or came out at the same time as a Toyota and Scion. Scion was an image brand, a way to offer Toyota models in a youth-oriented manner that allowed maximum personalization by only offering cheaper low-grade monospec versions that could be customized to fit. How low-grade they were seemed to diminish as time went on and they ended up finding themselves in about mid-grade levels from the start without the need to add accessories to bring them up to what people wanted. I feel that by around 2012-2013, Scion no longer mattered, all of the market research into what Scion owners wanted led them to a certain set of base specs for the cars that put them firmly into Toyota territory. It makes sense that they would now be Toyotas. I'm a bit surprised by the loss of the tC, would have had a nice home in Celica badging or similar. Scion iA = Toyota Yaris Sedan / Toyota Yaris R / Mazda 2 Scion iQ = Toyota iQ Scion iM = Toyota Auris Scion FR-S = Toyota 86 / Toyota GT-86 / Toyota FT-86 / Subaru BRZ Scion tC = Toyota Zelas (2nd Generation Only) Scion xA = Toyota ist / Toyota xA Scion xB = Toyota bB / Toyota Rukus / Toyota Corolla Rumion Scion xD = Toyota ist / Toyota Urban Cruiser Jeff __________________ 2011 Lexus IS350 F-Sport 6MT with LSD 1986 Toyota Corolla GT-S Supercharged

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