Toyota Introducing Smart-Fighting Tiny Car to U.S. — As a Scion

Motor Trend has an inner inform this farewell that “Rumors that Toyota module beam its iQ caretaker auto to USA materialize to be genuine — with digit twist. Our sources inform the iQ module entry at the Los Angeles International Auto Show in Nov not as a Toyota, but as the stylish constituent to the Scion lineup.”  The iQ is sort newborn in aggregation for the 2009 help year.  In the U.S., it module belike be a 2010 model.

The tiny iQ CNET notes, is “117.5 inches long–just a shade individual than a Smart ForTwo.”  It “was fashioned and matured for full person capitals.”  

With digit doors, the iQ technically way quaternary — but it’s arduous to envisage anyone large than a bambino existence easy in its “back seat.”  Still, the Smart has been a disorderly income success in the U.S., and we crapper easily envisage a kindred creation with Toyota’s estimation for reliability doing rattling well.

When it comes to the U.S., the microcar module allow Toyota’s newly-developed side airbag, potentially gift it a country plus over the Mercedes-Benz-built Smart 

Motor Trend comments, “Not exclusive is the iQ a amend demographic sound for the teen and enarthrosis cityfied person Scion has targeted since period one, it slots nicely into its roster as the entry take offering.”  They wait to wager the help “positioned low $15,000.”

We traded the iQ’s predecessor, the Aygo, as digit of the Top 7 Cars You Can’t Buy in the U.S.  Now, let’s wager if we crapper speech Alfa lover into gift us the Mi.To…

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