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hopefully Motor Trend is just rehashing old speculations..

January 18, 2010
Scion May Get Version of FT-86

Scion sales were off almost 50% in 2009, and that's apparently gotten the attention of Toyota execs, who recently vowed at the 2010 Detroit auto show to breathe new life into its struggling and product-starved youth brand.

Though it won't be arriving in the U.S. until sometime in 2011 as a 2012 model at the earliest, we hear that the decision is close to being made to sell the FT-86 here as a Scion, thus strengthening the brand's street cred with a legitimate, rear-drive performance offering. It may not even wear the FT-86 badge, possibly trading it in for a Scion-format two letter label.

read here

One person surmised that we might have three versions... Scion, Toyota & Subaru...

Of course, this would mean that all Subaru would need to do to differentiate their model would be styling, and the traditional flat-4 turbo. No need for AWD. I guess it could be an option, but, even for a Subaru, I dont feel it would fit this cars personality unless it had a heavy rear power bias.

And if Toyota makes one too, well, that would make things confusing. More likely a small, modern, attractive Lexus to steal both the G37/335/135 crowd, and the Mustang/Camaro/Genesis Coupe crowd.