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Originally Posted by cwayne
You're right, that's why the Celica was rotting on dealer showrooms in its last year when the Scion tC came out.
Who would buy an $18,000 Celica with crank windows, manual locks, steelies with wheel covers, drum rear brakes with no ABS?
The tCs were drowning with standard features that were options on many cars and it sold for around $16,500.
The low prices of the Scion line up help them sell faster than they could make them.
Well Honda is going to start selling a cheaper Civic hybrid early 2009. They're shooting for $18,000 - $19,000 and at that price they'd be sold out for the entire year guaranteed.
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Hummm, unless the Celica you're talking about is a used one, they were discontinued in 05 or that was the last model year for the Celica, ECHO and MR2 Spyder. Which were pretty much fruits of the "Genesis" project for the 2000's that didn't attract too many younger buyers. Okay, maybe the Celica and MR2 but sales withered away. Of course like you said Scion didn't help that but I think sales were going down anyway prior.
SO technically the tC replaces the Celica, at least in principle of course better equipped as all Scion's are mono-spec. Eventhough Scion is obviously Toyota it goes back to that badge thing. So they labeled it differently to attract people who otherwise wouldn't think of Toyota as their car but more so their mom's or dad's car.
I agree, the Celica and MR2 were pricey OVERALL compared to the competition and what you got with them. No doubt they are great run abouts and sports car like.
