MT CONFIDENTIAL

摘要

Has toyota's so-called youth division lost its way? Scion's Jack Hoi I is has the unenviable job of having to replace its best-seller, the tC coupe, in about a year. The Hako coupe concept revealed at the New York show was an unmitigated dud. Fortunately, the Fuse concept shown two years previous is more likely to be the basis for the tC replacement Problem is Scion has hardly stuck with its intention of not repeating models. The surprise-hit first-generation xB and the entry-level xA were to be replaced with something all-new. Instead, we got longer, wider, lower versions of the same cars, just as Detroit used to do. Division sales fell more than 17 percent last year just when Scion's father, Jim Farley, left Toyota for Ford.