Comments on: Scion reveals Hako Coupe Concept in NYC

By: lamboz get a life

lamboz get a life — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:34:25 +0000

which way is it going?

By: AmericanMade

AmericanMade — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:24:03 +0000

“Its way cool”?? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…….

By: Vroom

Vroom — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:11:58 +0000

Ease up people. It’s a modern interpretation of a 1930 Ford Model A Tudor Sedan. Look it up. I think it’s way cool.

By: injunraiv

injunraiv — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:04:04 +0000

My GOD this is ugly!!!

By: global_lightning

global_lightning — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:50:29 +0000

Just like your Uncle who still uses the terms RAD! and FRESH!, Scion is trying too hard to reconnect with youth market. They’ve gone from original to obnoxious. The only one still worth buying is the tC, the only Scion car that hasn’t been updated yet. At the rate they’re going, Scion will be shut down by 2011 due to a lack of sales.

By: C6Racer

C6Racer — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:10:03 +0000

umm…

By: :)

:) — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:14:35 +0000

I love it!

By: e46Ne90

e46Ne90 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:34:07 +0000

i like the idea but final model looks like crap.

By: MercMark

MercMark — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:28:32 +0000

I just puked in my mouth.

By: SwerveEarly

SwerveEarly — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:43:49 +0000

Somebody hit a Ford Deuce soupe w/fugly stick for a year straight.

By: Ray Sinclair

Ray Sinclair — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:26:09 +0000

I like it alot. It’s got some real potential. About the greenhouse…remember the Dodge Hemi concept which hinted at the direction that became the Magnum/Charger? The concept had a 50′s-style windshield, but the production cars were more mainstream. With a traditional layout, this thing would be pretty bitchin’. Even as it is today, though, I’d still straight-up take it over the current Xb, which I feel has virtually no appeal at all and is a very embarrassing replacement for the cool little Xb it replaced. With the current Xb, Scion messed with the winning formula-no wonder their sales are slipping.

By: 441Zuke

441Zuke — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:58:38 +0000

who green lighted this concept it’s embaressing

By: BlackX

BlackX — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:01:56 +0000

Is this a joke??!? Fucking orange aquarium on the wheels.

By: HoosierHero

HoosierHero — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:48:45 +0000

W…T…F…

By: F451

F451 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:14:07 +0000

Was anyone hurt in this accident?

By: carbonsigma

carbonsigma — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:20:03 +0000

“WTF” is the first word that came to me, too.

By: Raven

Raven — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:51:58 +0000

I think all that beauty will cost around $30000
LOL

By: MurcieMe

MurcieMe — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:07:01 +0000

I HATE it. It induces rage in me. Why the hell do these stupid new designers think it has to be Ugly to be “Hip”
I feel the entire car design world has been heading in that direction since the BMW 7 series debuted. Design something so awful it’s controversial enough to need to be copied, and eventually everybody gets used to it and convinces themselves they like it. This isn’t the way car design should be.

Ah well, I can’t say I expect much from Toyota. They make the ugliest cars in the industry.

Up yours Toyota!

By: sprockkets

sprockkets — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:59:06 +0000

LED Headlamps? Yeah right. Good so that those losers can’t put in HID lamps, bad cause they cost $$$. Never will make it to production.

Damn, wish I can get paid to send Sigh ON to the ground!

By: CleanGTO

CleanGTO — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:23:05 +0000

What in the unholy name of…Looks like their bastardizing classic domestic hotrod lines on that tin can soy hauler. I’m calling blasphemy!

By: hateful83

hateful83 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:18:15 +0000

I think if the windshield had any sort of rake to it, it might be pretty cool looking. As it sits now, it seems like its 2 different cars fused together.

By: Scott Kempton

Scott Kempton — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:15:39 +0000

I actually kind of like it. Yes, the upright windshield is a bit odd in today’s hyper-aerodynamic world, but think how nice it’d be to look through from the inside. And I like the stance, so of like a bulldog in a crouch. I sort of see hints of old-school street rods in it, just as some of you do. I also like the ridge that goes around the edge of the roof; I don’t know how practical it’d be for production, or to live with, but I think it looks kind of cool.

By the way—for all you young’uns who think that “old” people will never like new ideas, I’m 52.

By: LJ

LJ — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:46:19 +0000

I just remembered: Isn’t Chrysler coming out(supposedly) in 1-2 years, with a Chery-built “Hornet”(similar idea, but better looking) 151-152 inches long, 170HP(something like that)?
If so, this is most likely Scion’s “answer” to it.
The Corolla with tC engine..that’s probably it for “sporty fwd Toyota-Scion”(why?).
The tC is nice. When it’s done…guess if we want 3 doors/fwd… under 20K msrp….there’s the Astra(or wait for the next generation, should be here when I am ready to buy).

By: lucklaster

lucklaster — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:20:22 +0000

What a friggin CARTOON. If this is cool to anyone – they are too young to get a damn drivers license.
Stay off the streets and out of your stolen cars.

By: golf4me

golf4me — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:05:43 +0000

WOW, and not in a good way. Let’s hope all the designers read the comments on this blog, and extract themselves from the gene pool.

By: autonut

autonut — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:53:43 +0000

The look on the spokesman face says it all “In college I did inhale, I had a bad trip once or twice, woke up to this….”

By: LJ

LJ — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:25:52 +0000

I wonder if this is why Jim Press left Toyota for Chrysler last year?
I wonder if they really(now) Want the Scion Brand to fail in the USA? Seems so. Sales aren’t what they used to be.

The Kia Soul looks excellent in comparision.

By: Madcapp

Madcapp — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:19:21 +0000

Did anybody bother to put that in a windtunnel?

By: DS

DS — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:16:04 +0000

I’ve been reading for a long time and never commented, but now I MUST say that this thing is hideous. I represent Scion’s prime market (20-something college student) and mildly liked the xA and xB and really like the tC, but this… it’s horrible! You would have to pay me to drive this thing. I’ve looked at all the pictures to see if I’m missing something, but unless if I still am, this will be the industry’s biggest flop ever. All I can think of is a walrus. And that is no compliment.

By: Ted Bell

Ted Bell — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:13:08 +0000

I am embarrassed for them

By: LJ

LJ — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:55:08 +0000

I’d rather them make an updated looking AMC Pacer, than this.

By: LJ

LJ — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:52:24 +0000

the guy in the top row, last picture, the Scion spokesman, looks like he’s confused,too!

We have a 05 tC… nice car, indeed.
This? No.
Never.
I liked to one concept they showed a year ago… a lot better than this. It had some promise.
This?
I honestly hope they aren’t serious. tC is on 4th year right now. The xB and xA were replaced at around the end of the 4th model year.
They might seriously use this thing.

I hope not, or I will have to wait and see how the Astra 3 door does, long term, over the next year(it costs more, but if it holds up well, would be worth it, vs this horrible looking travesty of a pathetic joke).

No wonder Toyota/Scion sales ae down nearly 2% vs 07.

This is just stupid.

It’s Smaller(in overall length) than the xD!
It makes the xD looks handsome!
That’s not a good thing.

By: global_lightning

global_lightning — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:36:11 +0000

No lie:
My 3 y.o. son just looked at the pictures and said “Daddy, is that a toy car?” I think that says it all…

By: SS4LIFE

SS4LIFE — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:18:19 +0000

Wait this is a car? Oh right it’s a SCION! Sorry I thought this was like a hot wheels car or something.

By: gbb

gbb — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:14:59 +0000

Itr couldnt look any worse if Kia made it……..and I thought an Aztec looked like shit.

By: jjayc08

jjayc08 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:06:04 +0000

I also second the comment about it having street rod cues. I actually like the front, I think that’s pretty neat but, how is this a coupe? Do they plan on basing it on a sedan model? And even so, it’s more of a station wagon/compact wagon/box than anything else, not much of a coupe if you ask me.

I don’t think the design is all that great, not because of the odd angles but nothing seems to go together well. Retro front, but the rest of the design is a box. And the interior I understand is supposed to be simple, but the rear seats look very uncomfortable, and even more worrying is that bit of metal sticking out each side of the seat. It just looks very cheap.

Don’t get me wrong, I like a lot of Scions designs and I love the tC, but is it just me or does it seem Toyota’s striving to create new categories from thin air? First the Venza, whatever they labeled that (a crossover sedan, something silly like that), then their recent truck concept, and now this.

By: 1c3d0g

1c3d0g — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:05:10 +0000

LMAO…yet another monstrosity coming from Toy Ota.

By: AxeHead

AxeHead — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:58:59 +0000

I think this is cool, you boneheads are too old to appreciate this design.

By: master_chen

master_chen — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:51:48 +0000

I say let them build it and watch the sales of Scion crash and burn. What dumb fucks thought of this piece of crap? I’d rather walk than being seen in one of these whatever you call it thing.

By: Jon Luc

Jon Luc — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:49:31 +0000

From the ground to the window level, it looked promising, then I looked at the whole thing, & I haven’t been able to stop laughing. That thing is FUGLY!!

By: EijiO1

EijiO1 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:47:06 +0000

Too far to one side of the line towards just weird.!

The Windshield kills the whole deal. Fix it. Give it some slope or curvature to match the rest of the machine and I think it’ll work.

Otherwise, this is a decent concept, but still a lousy idea.

By: DeansterTJ

DeansterTJ — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:46:20 +0000

This is grosser than watching LP felch a goat.

By: GT40

GT40 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:25:56 +0000

HAHA

By: cfishgo

cfishgo — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:17:46 +0000

It’s not a horrid concept imho. Basically, it looks like they did a modern “scion” interpretation of a ’33 chevy sedan.

By: howsmydriving

howsmydriving — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:02:03 +0000

Relax, it’s just a concept….