Why doesnt Toyota make a Celica anymore?, Scion FR-S Options

[VavAlephVav]

I had wondered why if Toyota doesn't make the Celica anymore, why don't they at least make something like it?
All of the regular Toyota models I see on their website had no sports car at all.
Then when I went to pick up the little clips for the brake pads at the Toyota Dealer I walked past one of these







Check out the different colors in the build your own at Scion.com
http://www.scion.com/buildyourscion/config...l&year=2013

Hot Lava !

http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2013-s...st-drive-review

http://www.cars.com/scion/fr-s/2013/snapshot/

Scion FR-S

only about $25,000 - 200hp from a 2.0L "flat-four" that makes the center of gravity lower (Subaru motor I think?), 6 speed,
and they say it comes stock with the suspension "neutral balanced"
Sadly it doesn't look like they are making a turbo charged one, but 200hp from the stock motor isn't too shabby.

of course I'll wait till its about 15 years old before I think about letting the Celica go and getting one

[Keiri]

...Are you just now discovering this car?

This car has been around for a couple years now. The first one I ever saw in person was the brz, on base actually. I already read a lot about it when it was still a concept car. I was really excited about it. Until I saw how it was mass produced. Kind of made it over played like a Honda. Still a very nice car but too common now. Guess that ahat happens when you make an affordable car for the youngsters. Lol.

Scion tC. It's as close to a Celica as Toyota will ever make.

True that but we a need a sporty Celica. The tv was an Econobox like ou 6th Gen in he states. Sadly. Would've been nice if the ssiii was imported at least. Lol.

Not to rain on the parade but, um, we own Celicas which are mass produced and common cars that cost what the FR-S does when they were released in their heyday. Just because they're kinda rarely seen now doesn't mean they were back in the '90s - they aren't Supras or 2000GTs.

Scion exists, as Dan stated, to be your low-cost entry to the Toyota lineup and that means, or it did, that's where your fun and excitement will be just as Lexus is where your luxury and status reside in the Toyota family; each marque exists for a purpose even if we don't like or agree with it.

By the end of this decade, each marque (Scion, Toyota, and Lexus) will have a sports car (2-door, RWD/AWD) on sale or available for buyers. Just wait.

This post has been edited by Keiri: Jan 17, 2014 - 5:15 PM