This may eventually happen from globalization. Orrr they may sell Scions in other countries, just like Lexus was mostly North America based, then it started selling around the world.

From that teaser pic, it looks like it's based on the current gen. Given how different our standards are and how expensive it is to federalize cars for the U.S., it makes me wonder if they are retooling the existing model for the U.S. or they initially intended to make a U.S. version, but it got delayed. It came out…

True, true.

THIS is why we can't have nice things. Imagine one of them not paying attention and literally plowing right into your classic exotic or future 25 year old Kei car :( One would think the relatively narrow roads and congestion of the Northeast would discourage the purchase such large vehicles. Drive hatchbacks and…

That just might be crazy enough to work!

1. I put Jetta Sportwagen in parenthesis after the word wagon, but I guess you thought I meant hatchback and wagon. It's based on the Golf still.

But at least it has character that many new cars lack!

Mk6 VW Golf with the 2.5l I-5

Would be interesting to see a study that maps brain activity.

Not to mention it's based on an ITALIAN/French van (Fiat/Peugeot). So it's like from the makers of Ferrari.

Highly recommend American Autobahn: The Road To An Interstate Freeway With No Speed Limit as well. Talks a lot about the history of the Interstate Highway system along with a parallel discussion of the development car safety over the decades.

If this was the Autobahn, traffic would be warned to slow down like 5 miles in advance.

Yeah, I've seen that in the accessory brochure. So not sure. Though it's usually a good indicator of the possibility of other hidden mods and how the previous owner treated it.

Even in your pic, that grill is blacked out!

If it's good enough for that trip, then it's good enough for North America (oh wait, Mexico gets it)!

Tesla Model S wagon!

A4 Avant looks so natural. The sedan looks bland and just doesn't do it for me.

Almost impossible to sell here, because of the strictness of the NHTSA/IIHS crash tests.

Until our FMVSS vehicle standards are harmonized with the GLOBAL UN-ECE, we're not getting anything like this anytime soon. End of story.

...and blacking out everything and adding Monster energy drink stickers :X