XBSITE - The Definitive Source for the Scion xB

Source: http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/08/06/...rom-scion/
Posted Aug 6th 2008 at 11:03AM by Jeremy Korzeniewski

With Honda's imminent release of a hybrid model rumored to start around $18,500 and therefore undercutting the price of the Toyota Prius, a hybrid model from Toyota's entry-level Scion brand could be in the offing. It would make some sense, considering that Scion's sales spiked when gas prices hit the $4.00 a gallon mark before falling again. What's more, overall web site hits for the Scion brand are way down compared to its heyday just a few years back. Part of the problem is that young buyers, the original core market for the entire Scion brand, are looking elsewhere.

Jack Hollis, Scion's vice president, says, "A fourth product is essential. It could be an SUV. It could be a hybrid. We want a fourth product that buyers of the other three Scions don't like.". A fuel-efficient hybrid could fit that bill and give Toyota something which would complete directly with Honda's upcoming hybrid on level ground.

Please make it a Hybrid Materia/bB...

I think to test the platform they should bring back the xA.

has any car compainy ever braught back the exact same body after stopping production?

anyway id sport that Materia/bB
of better yet an extend cab xP that still got 35+ mpg, now thats what im talkin about.
not too meny compainies including Toyota has built a very fuel freindly pickup.
ive been saving for the down payment on a 09 Tacoma extend cab.. but 17 city / 23 highway is still just a tad hard to swallow right now.

Tomas, that is one sexy car.

Hope they make a hybrid and not a SUV. I think a Scion SUV would be the downfall.

A Scion SUV is NOT the sort of vehicle to bring into the current market - Heckm 99 and 44/110 percent of the SUVs out there have probably never been farther off the road than their own driveways.

A hybrid City Car to offer a step up from the xB Classic, instead of a Camry station wagon, which is a different class vehicle entirely, would be nice. I still would like to see the Materia/bB over here, and if they could manage a hybrid version I'd be first in line for one.

Sorry, Vanilla, but it's true.

^ Your only saying that because Vanilla has sadly been broken, and all your doing is breaking her feelings. Go love on her right now, she is sad and upset.

No, it's not because of anything wrong with Vanilla, it's because the Materia/bB has things of value to me that Vanilla never had a chance to have - like side air bags standard.

Vanilla knows she's loved. She's always the shiniest car in the lot, and if she gets hurt she's at the doctors ASAP getting all fixed up.

She's just fine, with her nose all fixed, synthetic lube in her engine, a full tank of Top Tier gasoline (Chevron), everything clean and under cover as usual right now.