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Originally Posted by cruzinbill
Every car has just as many people doing the same thing. Just because you or myself dislike something it doesn't mean it shouldn't be offered for people that do when that was part of scions reason for selling a one spec car.
The reason for the one spec car is so you don't have these special overpriced versions sitting on the lot all day. You have them all the same. Then when someone comes in to buy one. They choose from a list of addons to make it unique, special, ricey, classy, dope, phat, pimp, clean, cool, wicked-tight, sweet, or simple as they can afford/want.
It was something I liked seeing since it was the closest thing to what they did in the 50-70s of offering what a customer wanted instead of these BS packages where for example: I want HIDs. Can I have them? No, you must choose this package for x$ that has 24 other things you don't want.
If you simply want it as is then have it that way, but that doesn't mean they should go against one of the reasons they started the brand.
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They started the brand to bring in youth buyers. They thought the customization thing would bring them in.... in general, it didn't. I bought an xB in 05 while I was past their youthful buyer target age, and whenever I looked at another xB it was driven by someone my age or usually quite a bit older. I would say that maybe one in five I saw on the road had any visible modifications, and of those 5 maybe 2 would have 'official' accessories.
It was a nice idea, but kids buying these cars are usually stretched just to make the car payment. They can't afford the $100+/hr dealer labor rate to install their mods - or the premium price of the dealer parts department.
They were also initially very committed to having vehicles in the Scion lineup that were unique to the brand and not simply badge engineered. Toyota has given that up as well with the FR-S.
Hey, they tried. Before the FR-S, scion was pretty much on its ass. Most of the dedicated scion showrooms at dealerships had been converted to used car showrooms, with the sales simply brought into the Toyota showroom. When I bought my xB I was in a Scion-only showroom dealing with a Scion-only salesman. I bought my FR-S from the same dealer - out of their Toyota showroom.
-Justin