A Scion Truck - Is It Possible?
There has been a lot of talk recently about whether Scion will ever be producing a new truck. According to one poster on Scion Life forums who works at a dealership, he was told by his boss that Scion would be releasing a pickup called the XP for 2014. Still, a quick search under the word brought up only xB conversion kits.
A Pickup Truck by Scion
According to one site I found, however, there is such a vehicle in development. The sit reads as follows:
The original project was started by Toyota four years ago when it first revealed the A-BAT Conceptor Advanced Breakthrough Aero Truck, a unibody compact pickup that was powered by a Prius-like hybrid powertrain. ... A unibody “truck” that is designed more as a lifestyle vehicle...and could [italics mine] also be rebadged as a Toyota model and sold overseas. With Toyota currently offering both a 4-cylinder and a V6 in the RAV4, this might also make way for Scion’s first-ever six-cylinder model. Like other Scion vehicles, an A-BAT pickup would be powered by a conventional gasoline engine, but Toyota could also receive a version with a gas-electric hybrid powertrain to sell under its Prius line of vehicles.So, it appears to be the real deal and is not simply a rebadged Toyo but an actual Scion model. I suppose only time will tell but it is an exciting turn of events for the brand.
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