Scion iQ Concept

Is it real? Toyota says it is belief whether “urban trend-setters” would acquire this three-seater as a affiliate of the Scion family. Awww, it’s so adorable, Madonna would appetite to accept one.

What they said: “Scion’s iQ abstraction turns acceptable auto architecture upside down,” said Jack Hollis, carnality admiral of Scion. “Traditionally, baby cartage accept been anticipation of as actuality basic. The iQ abstraction is aloof the opposite, with its avant-garde appearance and iconic burghal design, and we accept it fits in able-bodied aural the Scion brand. Our young, trend-setting buyers are artistic and avant-garde advanced thinkers, and we anticipate they will acknowledge what iQ has to offer.”

What they didn’t say: The iQ isn’t absolutely new; it is already awash in Europe and Japan as a Toyota. But over there, it’s a tiny Plain Jane for commuters on a bound budget. Over here, a tuner car specialist, Five Axis of Huntington Beach, Calif., has royally pimped this ride. Ride on.

What makes it tick? Nothing yet. Overseas, the iQ putt-putts about with a 1-liter 67-horsepower agent — but it gets 65 afar to the gallon A racier 1.3-liter ability bulb with 99 application gets 54 m.p.g. Americans would apparently get article added able and beneath fuel-efficient — and that would be too bad.

How much, how soon? Toyota is coy about whether or not the iQ will, in fact, be added to the Scion lineup. But all agnosticism will apparently be removed by a actor visitors to the New York auto appearance agreeable that they appetite one. Immediately.

How’s it look? As a concept, a cantankerous amid a Mini and a Smart, but cooler. The anguish is that a assembly adaptation would be dumbed-down and uglied-up.