Old Jun 25, 2004 | 02:39 PM
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Default Drove the Scion tC, or rather sat in one...

Well I went to the event here in orlando at Full Sail. The roads around the college were 100% traffic jammed so we had to stay in the lot under 10mph, so I have NO performance data whatso ever...

That said.

Things that impressed me:

The radio cover, and all center console silver stuff, that normally looks like plastic in the pics is REALLY ALL METAL, and the door for the CD player dosent shake side to side!!! its well made!

The sunroof is neat, efficient, and looks awesome.

Seats are perfect, and the cloth is great

Leather optional sterring wheel is a MUST, it feels so good

Guages are also in METAL not grey plastic, kinda mclaren F1 esque
Looks great

Paint quality is excellent, stock rims are excellent

Under the hood is well kept, all things look quality.

Lots of rear space with rear seats folded

Alarms adn accessories work well, no cheapness detected in switches and so on

the 5spd gearbox has excellent gates and good solid feel, WTG toyota

automatic gearbox has the wierd mercedes/is300 style gates but works fine and dosent feel cheap

windows are fully auto power up and down for all windows.

Lots ofstorage room in the cabin.


Downsides:

Very little rear seat room, reclining rear seats are practically useless for someone my size, but it feels like riding in my dads integra which is what this car is aimed at, making an integra better for 6K less (GS-R's used to be 22K or so new).




I didnt get to beat on it, but just for hitting speed bumps at 10-15mph th esuspension feels soild, over all i'm extremely impressed and I'm signed up to test drive one at a dealer the RIGHT way in a week or so.


+1 scion! WTG
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