I like the retro design movement just as much as the next guy, but Scion got it backward with the Hako Coupe. It’s put the front in the back, and the back in the front. When I was studying animal behavior in college my teacher cited an interesting experiment where a silhouette of a bird was shown to goslings. When shown flying in one direction with the longer portion ahead of the wings (looking like a goose), the animals didn’t react. But when shown flying in the same direction with the smallest section ahead of the wings (looking like a hawk) the animals reacted to the threat.

This applies directly to the Hako. If we do some reengineering and make the back into the front…voila! A cool new COE concept truck from Scion. Hawks are much cooler than geese after all.

This is a quick reworking of the Hako. I dub it the Okah Truck (not to be
confused with the Japanese Ohka flying bomb of WWII). I’ve added a pickup bed and rearranged the door handles. This crew cab has a forward-opening hatch front. The rear bulkhead has pass-through capabilities. The bed is covered by a contrasting hard tonneau. Ideally, the windshield would need to dive deeper into the fascia for better forward vision. Of course, a regular cab would allow a longer bed and more outward utility.

I’m a big fan of the cab-over aesthetic best expressed by the Dodge A100, Ford Econoline, Chevy Rampside, Jeep FC series, and VW pickup here in the U.S. and the M-B Unimog throughout the world. In this configuration, the Okah Truck has all the cool attitude the New Microbus had, with which VW taunted us a few years ago.

C’mon, Scion, bring us a truck. And keep those wheels. They are cool.

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