If you show up to a track day in a Scion FR-S within the next year or so, prepare to be bombarded with questions and compliments about the car. At least, that was my experience when I took our semi-long-term FR-S to Willow Springs International Raceway for an HPDE (high performance drivers education) event. The [...]
Even before our long-term 2013 Scion FR-S arrived, WOT staffers were already preparing their wish list of modifications — bigger tires, new suspension, forced induction, and exhaust upgrades, just to name a few possibilities. I was both hopeful and worried—does the FR-S really need all that stuff? My first stint in the FR-S was a [...]
At our test track, we found an easy recipe for cooking up a homemade supercar without resorting to tuner-shop tweaks that could break the bank or void the warranty.
Here’s our recipe:
Take one fresh Scion FR-S, available at your local Scion/Toyota dealer for just over $25,000.
Remove the stock 17-inch tires and wheels.
Install a good set of 18-inch ultra-high-performance summer tires and size-appropriate alloy wheels.
Prepare yourself to be stirred, not shaken. You’ve just turned a fun and agile re…
While we like the Scion FR-S and its fraternal twin, the Subaru BRZ, as much as anyone writing about cars, we’d also admit that we’d like it even more if it had more power. Despite a 30+ horsepower advantage over the Mazda MX-5 Miata, the Toyotabaru coupes feel slower to us, and – dare we say it – less precise.
That’s what the aftermarket is for, and to be fair, the Scion FR-S was always intended to be a blank canvas. Give enthusiasts a solid (and affordable) base to build from, and …
Toyota and Scion will be charging slightly more for certain models in 2013.
No car in recent history must have been so relentlessly covered at TTAC as the Toyota 86 and its dizzying assemblage of names and numbers. I don’t think there is an editor at TTAC who hasn’t reviewed the car at least three times. All except me. I only reviewed it twice. Something had to be done …
Dear reader, be warned: This review of a sports car with a multiple persona syndrome concentrates mostly on seating arrangements and extraneous observations in the field of bears, bodies, far-easter…
Anyone remember the craze over the comically-looking mini supercars created with the help of photoshop and various other image editing programs from a few years back? After a gazillion different design concepts of any vehicle you can think of, the fad passed and we all moved on, or so we thought, as someone over at Toyota's racing and performance partner Gazoo recently had a moment of zen giving it another go. Mind you, we're not talking about a digital rendering, but a real life, working mode…
Anyone remember the craze over the comically-looking mini supercars created with the help of photoshop and various other image editing programs from a few years back? After a gazillion different design concepts of any vehicle you can think of, the fad passed and we all moved on, or so we thought, as someone over at Toyota's racing and performance partner Gazoo recently had a moment of zen giving it another go. Mind you, we're not talking about a digital rendering, but a real life, working mode…
To add power or not to add power? The question still comes up when discussing the 2013 Scion FR-S and its 200-hp 2.0-liter boxer-four. And with the 2012 SEMA show just around the corner, it’s a safe bet that most FR-S coupes in attendance will have a little extra something under the hood. That was [...]
If you’re like Autosavant writers, you’re pretty intrigued by the Scion iQ’s tiny footprint and impressive utilization of space. However, the iQ, like the Smart ForTwo and Chevrolet Spark, struggled to hit the magic 40-mpg mark — despite its size and weight. For 2013, Scion has a solution to appease consumers looking for a microcar with the frugality to match.
Enter the 2013 Scion iQ EV. Cosmetically, it’s indistinguishable from the gas-powered iQ, save for a cha…