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Originally Posted by stanleycjohn
Do you guys think they will be more serious about putting a polished product out since its got the toyota badge now? I mean there's got to be a bit more riding on it now right. They couldn't take any chances as far as reliability with the infamous Toyota name on it. Maybe a bit more quick to fix any issues that come up considering there are new parts involved in the engine
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Originally Posted by Tcoat
Nothing changes because of the badging. It was always a Toyota everyplace else. They didn't make lower quality for Scion and higher for Toyota. The only difference was they had more options.
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This. ^^^
It's not like they operated Scion as a completely separate entity with its own distribution channels and manufacturing. You'd be hard pressed to find a Scion buyer who didn't know it was a Toyota (heck, Scion dealerships are IN Toyota dealerships). That was always part of the Scion selling point; it's a Toyota, but with straight forward pricing (generally), less convoluted options (because there were so few), and more "youthful" styling, all of which were meant to be more approachable to younger buyers and break out of the older mindset of what a Toyota is (i.e. "my mom drives a Toyota, so why would I want to").
The Scion brand is purely a North American marketing construct. The same cars are sold as Toyota models throughout the rest of the world, they're all built in the same plants by the same workers. They just grab badges and logos from a different parts bin.
All that being said, the new 86 is still really built by Subaru, so the change in branding will have doubly no real impact on quality. Might increase quality slightly; one less box of parts (old Scion and FR-S tags) to worry about!