Scion News

One lucky south Georgia high school student's hard work has paid off. The teenager got a brand new car.

A direct descendant of the JDM gods Supra, STi, and LFA; the new 2013 Scion FR-S has officially arrived in Tampa Bay! The very first one to roll of the truck took place at Sun Toyota in Holiday, Florida.

Oddly enough, its Scion FR-S twin has only managed to gather 7 percent , the same as the Hyundai Genesis Coupe 2.0 Turbo, which is still enough to place both higher than the Mazda MX-5 that has secured 4 percent of your votes.

BEFORE YOU EVEN start, Toyota knows: The tin-hearted halfling you see here is pricey - $16,000, in the ballpark of a Ford Fiesta or Mazda2 or the sublime Honda Fit - it's slow , and it's about as sexy as a hairy nose wart.

The Scion FR-S has just started hitting the sales floor in numbers and the dealers are coming out of the wood work marking up the the little coupe.

Too bad Toyota couldn't have had a little more fun with the name. The FR-S is known as the Toyota GT-86 in rest of the world, and even wears GT-86 badges on its front panels.

Americans have a skewed sense of size when it comes to cars. In the United States, cars like the Chevrolet Cruze and Ford Focus are considered small, while in Europe that might not be the case.

Like the stunning Chevrolet Miray concept car ? The folks responsible for its design are about to get twice as much space to work their magic.

We've known for a while that Mazda has been looking to partner with another automaker, and today the automaker announced it will team up with Alfa Romeo to build a new roadster.

SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THREE TO FOUR THOUSAND RPM: This story isn't about the Subaru BRZ.

As we've written a number of times in the past, we assiduously follow trademark filings by Toyota, as well as its Lexus and Scion brands for the clues and insights they provide into future product plans.

The wait is finally over. The FR-S is officially dropping in a few months. After three years of picturesque renderings and prototype vehicles popping up at auto shows, the newest and arguably hottest Scion will be sold at dealerships around the United States in the spring of this year.

Vann York Toyota is now offering special lease pricing on new Toyota vehicles, including the popular Scion IQ, during the sales event.

Toyota is developing a downloadable telemetry system for the new 86 sports car that will enable owners to download and compare their times and driving styles with top Toyota testers at major circuits around the world via Sony Playstations.

The 2013 Scion FR-S is looked over by spectators Monday before its owner, Brad Dorshorst, receives the keys.

The Scion FR-S and Subaru BRZ sports coupes are joined at the hip by a platform-sharing agreement signed by Toyota and Fuji Heavy Industries.

Toyota's Scion is growing up. The marque, hatched in 2003 as the company's "youth" brand, remains its forward agent among the American Millennial generation - but in a new approach to the target, Scion is expanding its heretofore limited vehicle lineup, skewing its advertising more toward traditional themes, and probably ditching the pace-setting ... (more)

This is a story of unlikely scenarios. The first concerns the Subaru BRZ, a rear-wheel-drive sports car from the company famous for making all-wheel-drive station wagons pretending to be SUVs.

Longtime Toyota tuning partner Gazoo Racing will show a concept version of the Toyota GT86 - sold here as the Scion FR-S - at this weekend's 24 Hours of NA1 4rburgring race.

A convertible version of Toyota's 86 is "technically feasible," claims the car's project engineer, although there is no official indication of when such a derivative might be launched.