Scion News, Updates & Info

Chris Rado and the WORLD Racing team commenced the long weekend by testing the PRO FWD WORLD Racing Scion tC at Atco Raceway, in order to verify that the new clutch they installed was working properly. After fighting with the “clutch gremlins” as Chris said, the team finally got everything in working order and was ready to head south, to Maryland International Raceway for Battle of the Imports.

The WORLD Racing team was set to qualify on Friday evening. The team hustled to get the car to the staging lane, Chris did his burnout, and everything seemed to be in working order. The lights came down and he launched the car, but something didn’t feel quite right. Chris ended up aborting the run within three seconds of leaving the line. The team went back to the pits to figure out what the issue was. Turns out it was a spark plug issue that they immediately corrected.

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Imagine driving 150 miles without ever using a drop of gas and your power company might even give you cash back, as well.A graduate student at the University of Delaware created an electric car of the hopefully not-so-distant future. Slideshow: History Of Gas Prices From 1950 To 2008 You get in it like a normal car, you turn the key like a normal car, you put it into gear like a normal car and drive it like a normal car.

But what makes the $70,000 Scion so special is that there is no smoke-spewing tailpipe, no noise, and no need to ever stop at a gas station.

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Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc., today reported half-year sales of 1,240,086 vehicles. For the month of June, TMS recorded sales of 193,234 units, a decrease of 11.5 percent from last June, on a daily selling rate basis.

The Toyota Division posted June sales of 172,981, down 10.3 percent from last June. The Lexus Division reported June sales of 20,253 units, a decrease of 21.1 percent from the year-ago month.

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If you’re in a state affected by the new hands free cell phone laws, and you talk on your cell phone while driving, please note that the new law goes into affect today, Tuesday, July 1, 2008. If you are caught driving without a hands free headset, be prepared to pay a $20 fine for the first offense and $50 for each subsequent offense.

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Safe driving!

Don Ringler Scion, located in Temple, Texas, is a having a contest to re-wrap their 2008 Scion xB. The person who creates the winning design will receive a check for $100. Apparently, management has decided that the current vinyl wrap is hideous and is turning to Scion enthusiasts to come up with a much better design.

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In recent years, Toyota’s Scion division has created a number of limited-edition company-modified versions of its cars. The Scion brand was, after all, created to appeal to young buyers, so modified, limited-edition versions may not be large revenue generators, but they support the division’s raison d’être. The latest is a “Hot Lava”-colored, tricked-out version of the xD vehicle, part of the division’s Release Series 1.0 line of factory-customized cars. The company is extending the lava theme to a marketing program to support the car, of which only 2,000 are being made. The campaign, which launched Wednesday, comprises an online banner-ad campaign directing consumers to visit Scion.com/rsxD; dealer-customizable newspaper ads; and smoking mobile billboards accompanied by street teams wearing flame-retardant suits.

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Torrance, California – Scion, an entry-level Toyota nameplate not sold in Canada, has marked its five-year anniversary of sales in the United States. The brand continues to draw the youngest median age in the automotive industry; at launch, its goals were to bring young consumers into the Toyota family and implement a new business model for selling cars.

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It’s officially Summer and while you may not think a car cover is necessary when the weather is nice, the sun can cause permanent damage to your vehicle. A sun blocking car cover can block 99.7% of the sun’s rays. Right now you can get 10% off all car and truck covers!

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Four years after it first hit showrooms, the Scion tC will finally make a showing in a professional road racing series. And no, factory optioned and equipped vehicles being tossed around Long Beach by B-list celebrities cannot be considered professional. A tC has already been heavily modified to compete in the Formula Drift series, but the peppy compact’s road race profile, outside the annual celebrity race of course, has been relatively low. This weekend though, Toyota’s sporty little coupe will be moving up from amateur abuse to make its big time debut in Grand-Am’s KONI Challenge Series. This week’s race will take place at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, OH and the tC will be part of the ST (Sport Touring) class.

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The tC sports coupe and team that started as the world’s first Scion to take a national podium in road racing, now prepare to take a huge step forward. Dan Gardner and the Jackson-Dawson Scion team have their sights set on fierce competition, as they become the first-ever Scion team to compete in a professional road race series. The Scion tC and the team will make their debut in the highly-competitive Grand-Am KONI Challenge series this weekend at Mid-Ohio Sportscar Course in Lexington, Ohio.

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