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This car has no business being a scion;
- Too expensive for a scion
- Being a scion means you get everything or nothing (a/c, power, seat material etc), and prepared to get stabbed in the eye on useless options.
- Scion is a failing brand, and a marketing driven brand. Neither of which i'd like to have associated with my light weight sports car, thank you very much.
- Said marketing executives have lost the plot and totally f'ked up what scion was supposed to be, and why it USED to be a cool thing. They are looking for a halo shot to save the brand, but what they don't realize is that It could horribly backfire, in a lot of very nasty ways. Scion can still be saved, but the FT-86 won't do it.
- Don't want the FT-86 sitting around languishing on a 6 year cycle, like they gleefully did to the tC, after saying that they would be doing 3-4 year model cycles.
Ultimately, it doesn't affect me, because Scion isn't sold in my market, so it will get here as a Toyota most likely. That being said, I'm likely to be in Canada/Miami on an extended work project when this car comes out, so I'd be stuck with whatever the US market has to offer. I would seriously buy a Subaru before I buy a Scion. In fact, I'd be rooting for Nissan to bring back the Silvia and prepare to cut all ties with Toyota. I'm not a brand snob, but the thinking behind the positioning of this car worries me a lot.
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