Toyota brand Scion is back and it's going to sell a kei truck in America

Re:Toyota brand Scion is back and it's going to sell a kei t... by jumpkick on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @07:15PM (#50448173)

This is super cool. But for better or worse I have an instant aversion to short punchy sentences because they read like AI whether they are or not, e.g. "The T4X by the numbers, from the lineup brief. Stock is the base build; Ransom is the off-road package, available at launch."

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Re:Toyota brand Scion is back and it's going to sell a kei t... by ryukoposting on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @07:30PM (#50448288)

This [1] is up there with all the 82-0 clones for the most vibe-coded thing I've come across in a non-professional context.

The type of customer looking for a practical cheap truck won't take kindly to a bunch of silhouette photos and a brand nobody's ever heard of. For the subset who have a good mental radar for AI slop, this whole website just looks like a scam.

[1] https://postimg.cc/2bRfDbNp

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Re:Toyota brand Scion is back and it's going to sell a kei t... by rpmisms on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @07:54PM (#50448467)

Designs come out on Monday. Here's hoping I'm driving one in two years.

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Re:Toyota brand Scion is back and it's going to sell a kei t... by ryukoposting on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @09:56PM (#50449274)

Godspeed. In my eyes, until proven otherwise they're Nikola for a less scrupulous target market.

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Re:Toyota brand Scion is back and it's going to sell a kei t... by rpmisms on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @02:09AM (#50450520)

Except that the technology is straight out of the 90s. The only challenges here are manufacturing and marketing.

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Re:Toyota brand Scion is back and it's going to sell a kei t... by SOLAR_FIELDS on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @02:36PM (#50457495)

Which Fisker, who has an actual background in the industry, fell flat on his face executing on. The person behind this REO initiative is a real estate guy.

Not saying it's impossible, because I very much want this to be a thing, but if Fisker couldn't pull it off with much more funding, I'm not going to bite until I see a real vehicle and some actual adults backing the thing.

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Re:Toyota brand Scion is back and it's going to sell a kei t... by rpmisms on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @03:48PM (#50458470)

Fisker was trying to make weird hypercars, not extremely basic vehicles that could be built from scratch by most mechanic's shops.

There are no unsolved problems here. If you find one, you can take apart a Frontier, Tacoma, or Colorado from before 2005 and check how it was done then.

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Re:Toyota brand Scion is back and it's going to sell a kei t... by rpmisms on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @07:53PM (#50448461)

Agreed. I appreciate that they're actually executing so far (as far as anyone can tell). CEO is answering questions in discord.

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Re:Toyota brand Scion is back and it's going to sell a kei t... by rafram on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @08:43PM (#50448832)

> $25, refundable. A place in line, not an order.

Yeah, it’s a safe bet.

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Re:Toyota brand Scion is back and it's going to sell a kei t... by rpmisms on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @09:18PM (#50449056)

It's a bet I'm extremely happy to make.

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Re:Toyota brand Scion is back and it's going to sell a kei t... by dwaltrip on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @09:21AM (#50453761)

It’s incredible how distinct the stench is… shudders

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Re:Toyota brand Scion is back and it's going to sell a kei t... by rpmisms on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @10:18AM (#50454457)

I'm curious to see how much of the engineering is AI-boosted. Can one designer do a full production-ready interior solo?

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