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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.
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.
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.
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.

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.