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Click the image above to view a couple of Scion's SEMA entries."These are our people!" has always been Scion's mantra at SEMA. Car customization and personalization is the cornerstone of Toyota's "youth"branded division, despite the number of retirees buying up xBs to shuffle between the doctor's ...

In the latter part of the 1990s, Toyota realized it had a problem on its hands. Although its sales had been climbing steadily for years, the average age of its customers was also climbing. That's fine in the short term, but over the long ...

While the redesigned Scion xB has been floating around the U.S. for a few months now, Toyota has seen fit to rename it the Rumion in the homeland, and is offering it in more enticing flavors.Two engine choices are available, either a 1.5- or 1.8-liter four, both of which are mated to Toyota's Super ...

When Toyota's youth brand was born, there was an unwritten rule that it wouldn't grow beyond three models. Years later, Scion is an unqualified success having sold 170,000 units of the xA, xB and tC last year, which has Toyota execs wondering if just a few more units could be sold with a fourth ...

We've already seen the Scion xB in person and feel that it will probably match the success of the gen 1 edition. As we told you when it debuted in Chicago, it has grown in size on a new platform instead of the one it shared with the now defunct xA. It lost its toaster-esque styling as well, and ...

Due to the popularity of small, fuel-sipping cars, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has smashed up some of the newest offerings. And, as if you needed further proof to get optional side air bags on your next car, the minimally-bagged Hyundai Accent, Kia Rio, Scion xB and Toyota Yaris all ...

This weekend, Scion flew 328 owners to Miami Beach, which served as the backdrop for an invitation-only reveal of the replacement for the xA and the brand-new xB. The event happened Friday night at the Miami Beach Convention Center (if you go to the CC's website, you'll see that 12/15 was booked ...

For the first 255 days of 2006, Scion sold more than 151,000 cars. Next year, the youth-oriented brand plans to sell even fewer. The Wall Street Journal reports that Toyota plans to limit its youth brand's sales to a year-long total of only 150,000 vehicles next year. Toyota hopes that by keeping ...

Click to enlargeThe final Scion limited edition vehicle of the year lands in dealerships next month. The Scion xB Release Series 4.0 gets doused in Maziora Torched Penny paint, a color-shifting finish that changes depending on your viewing angle and/or how light plays off the car's surface (similar ...

Sure, it's not the clearest picture, but we love spy shots so much that we'll put it up anyway. Wheelstorejt, a message board junkie over at ScionLife, snapped this shot of the next Scion xB. Unlike the vehicle's Japanese counterpart, the Toyota bB, it looks as ...