The rumor mill has been spitting out bits and pieces about the upcoming sports coupe currently being co-developed between Toyota and Subaru, but details about the car’s U.S. availability have been relatively scattered. Early reports suggested both cars would be available for U.S. consumption, while others speculated that only the Subaru version would be available in the States. But according to a new report, both guesses are wrong.
While the Subaru version of the coupe is still likely on for the U.S., Toyota will also be marketing the car here in the United States. However, the new model won’t be wearing a Toyota badge but will rather be given to the automaker’s Scion youth division, according to Carscoop.
For those of you thinking the new model will eat into Scion tC sales, you’re onto something. Instead of offering two models that are relatively the same – save for which wheels provide the motivation – Scion will badge the new model as the next-generation tC.
The next tC should hit the market in late 2010 or early 2011 and will be Scion’s first rear-wheel drive model. Subaru’s version of the sport coupe will offer an optional all-wheel drive system and a turbocharged engine good for about 300 horsepower, but look for the tC to do with just the base car’s 2.0L Boxer-four – producing about 200 horsepower – in order to keep in line with Scion’s value pricing.
11/11, 6:30 PM
posted by:
Borat
In my neck of the woods you can Scions only at Toyota dealership. This is really splitting hair.
11/11, 6:31 PM
posted by:
DrFill
Easily tunable to 300HP with Subi parts
Less than $20k to get in
Sweet!
DrFill
11/11, 6:31 PM
posted by:
howsmydriving
200 hp with RWD??? I’ll take it over any POS FWD Audi/VW.
11/11, 6:54 PM
posted by:
crackerhemi
Great job, Toyota and Subaru. Now, if GM can stop acting like mindless cracker Impulsive, maybe they can achieve something as newsworthy as Toyota.
11/11, 6:59 PM
posted by:
OhNo
As a current Tc owner I am very excited. Just hoping it won’t come out looking like that hideous haiku thing.
11/11, 7:19 PM
posted by:
johnnycanuck
I’d still prefer a Solstice Coupe, or has that been ‘delayed’ as well.
11/11, 7:23 PM
posted by:
dorikin_86
Finally….a ‘real’ sports car.
Current TC’s steering pump overheats on trackdays for goodness sakes…time to release something for an enthusiast!
11/11, 7:28 PM
posted by:
Lariat Luxury Locomotive Liner No.3
@johnnycanuck, I roll with you as the Solstice Coupe harks back to the British cars like the MGB-GT, and Triumph GT6. I do like the concept model better than the production model, but life moves on.
11/11, 7:37 PM
posted by:
tzu13
The Celica lives!… sort of.
11/11, 7:50 PM
posted by:
kansei
tzu13: no, this is way better than the Celica could ever have pretended to be. Don’t let the racy body kit of the last model GT-S fool you, that thing was down on power and handled well –for a toyota
11/11, 9:43 PM
posted by:
deutschetouring1337
Honestly who cares, diesels,hybrids and EV’s are the future. Check out Subarus new Boxer Diesel engine, it will replace the gasoline version truely amazing almost double the torque of standard STI.
11/11, 9:46 PM
posted by:
deutschetouring1337
Here’s a pic of an artist concept its pretty cool a squished IS look.
http://image.motortrend.com/f/we-hear/report-joint-toyota-subaru-rear-drive-coupe-coming-to-us-as-a-scion/10785802+w562+cr1+re0+ar1/toyota-subaru-coupe-illustration.jpg
11/11, 9:48 PM
posted by:
deutschetouring1337
Think a cross between the RSX/Integra and Lexus IS designs.
11/11, 10:07 PM
posted by:
cereal
Dang. I didn’t think Toyota’d pull it off.
Likely sub-20k, maybe 20k. But it works.
RWD? Awesome.
Good, good, good.
-eat your cereal
11/11, 10:34 PM
posted by:
Need4SSpeed
Toyota don’t bring it over as a Scion! PLEASE…….
It’s better off with a Toyota badge…. Toyota will end up getting sued by the parents of all the 17 year old kids running out and buying this, and most of which having no experience driving a RWD car will end up killing themselves….
Just bring it back as a Celica, done deal. At least it will give Toyota one sporty car in its lineup and then keep the Scion Tc FWD as a competitor to the Cobalt, Mazda 3, and all the other FWD sub comacts out there…
11/11, 11:29 PM
posted by:
Impulsive
‘crackwhore’, the reason GM is where it is is solely because they have worthless dung beetles like you working there … the sooner your kind die off the better the world.
11/12, 12:02 AM
posted by:
GalaxyCruiser316
I think that this car will totally sale especially in the tuner world! How can I get on the waiting list?
11/12, 2:46 AM
posted by:
Stinky007
I wish Toyota or Subaru would do the right move and sell this in Europe! I’d get this any day over a FWD GTI!
11/12, 4:40 AM
posted by:
Veda
Something that’s actually exciting for a Scion/Toyota… that’s new… yea I wouldn’t mind one either. Why bother with a FWD Audi A3.
11/12, 11:57 AM
posted by:
oldraven
So once again, Toyota will be left with absolutely nothing that remotely resembles a sports car. It’s not like Toyota fans have been waiting since ‘05 for a sports compact, or ‘04 for a Mid-engined Runabout, or ‘98 for a RWD Sports Car.
Scion is the youth brand. Why do they need a RWD coupe when Toyota is the one with the Celica/Supra pedigree? The current Tc is the perfect formula for a youth brand’s sport offering.
11/12, 12:58 PM
posted by:
RaineMan
Well… it’s about time Scion got something worthwhile in their lineup. This should be a hit with the tuner crowd. Buy the Scion, boost it with Scooby parts… win-win.
11/12, 3:13 PM
posted by:
JerkStoreAssistantManager
CAN’T WAIT!!!
11/12, 4:18 PM
posted by:
yarddog82abn
“Subaru’s version of the sport coupe will offer an optional all-wheel drive system and a turbocharged engine good for about 300 horsepower”……..,”BAD @$$” that’s what I’m talking about!!!
“but look for the tC to do with just the base car’s 2.0L Boxer-four – producing about 200 horsepower”…….mass-puto………….
11/12, 4:36 PM
posted by:
Need4SSpeed
Sucks that the Subie model is probably going to end up just being a 3dr hatchback…. Hardly anything that should be called a coupe…