There have been whispers for some time now that Toyota has been looking at sending its diminutive iQ light car to the US, to be sold under the company’s youth-oriented brand Scion.

The whispers turned into bright yellow shouts this week, with Toyota revealing a Scion-badged concept version of the iQ at the New York Motor [...]

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There’s no word on whether we should ever expect to see Toyota bring its youth-oriented Scion brand to the Aussie market - especially in the current financial climate - and no doubt more than a few young Toyota enthusiasts are envious of their US counterparts.

Despite being front-wheel drive in factory form, the Scion tC has [...]

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My dear old Mum, for the first time in her life at age 63, has finally decided to treat herself to a new car. There’s only one problem. My mother knows as much about cars as I do about the mating habits of the central African warthog. For the past decade, my mother’s been going [...]

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In the 90s, companies went on epic shopping sprees like they had one week to live. You could almost imagine Ford raising a “Mission Accomplished” banner on the deck of an aircraft carrier after buying Jaguar…

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The Japanese are nothing if not masters at separating your hard-earned dollars from the warm, cozy confines of your wallet. Whereas the rest of the world thinks of the automobile as a long term investment, many Japanese think of it as a seasonal fashion accessory. As everyone knows by now, there’s the prohibitively expensive shaken [...]

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When your art gets to a point where people like myself start wishing that maybe they’d like life a little more if our cars looked as exotically surreal as they do when you draw them, you know you’re doing well.

I’ve been a fan of the head-shatteringly brilliant Dangeruss’s work for a long time now, and [...]

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Scion took the wraps of one of the more odd looking concept vehicles that we’ve seen in quite some time. The Scion Hako concept has been greeted by laughter and derision across the internet and it is a little difficult to take it seriously.

Scion are claiming it is an amalgamation of Japanese and American youth [...]

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