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Hideous Monstrosity Of The Day: June 22, 2017; Maisto '05 Scion xB
Topic Started: Jun 22 2017, 10:29 PM (1,208 Views)
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Jun 27 2017, 11:09 AM
I just don't get the whole bad mouth syndrome; what's the point? There's plenty of cars I'm not fond of and that I dislike, but what's the point of bad mouthing them. It riles up feathers and causes friction.
Controversy is surprisingly good for a discussion forum. Since we frown upon flame wars here, there are few opportunities to stir things up without stirring the pot. Sometimes I like to just throw some wild opinions out there and see where the chips land.

Controversy gets people talking. This topic has more replies than any COTD topic in a long time. And I was completely honest: I really do hate Scion, I really do think the tC & xB are ugly, I still think it was a horrible marketing move, I refuse to own any Toyota made after 2005, and I won't apologize for sharing thrusting those opinions upon everyone. Just like I won't begrudge anyone who jumped in to defend Scion.

Like I said, this is a discussion forum. For once, we actually had a real discussion about the COTD (that wandered off topic a few times) instead of COTD getting like three replies. You know what's worse than controversy? Apathy. Which is the vibe I've been getting about COTD for a while. It takes a lot of time and effort to keep a daily feature like this going, and when there's little response it gets a bit discouraging. This was probably the most interesting topic we've had here in months. Debating taste (which is subjective) is a lot less controversial than say, discussing religion or politics. So unless there's a sentient Scion secretly lurking here... I don't think anyone's going to leave this discussion upset.

That said, I must admit I didn't think we'd still be talking about it a week later. Maybe if people had been this passionate about Scion when they were still in production (and you know, actually purchased one) they'd still be around. ;)
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Don't know why I took a second. Look.but it gets a 2ND Iggie
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I don't think it's that ugly. I like at least collecting these boxy Japanese cars. We have a lot of similar stuff in Europe, though styled not that sharp-edged, like Renault Kangoo, Citroen Berlingo, VW Caddy and such. I think Kia Soul is the only Asian entry in that market that is available here. Someone grey-imported a bunch of Nissan Cubes but they didn't sell well.

What I think is that the last gen. Celica is hideous. And the tC looks quite nice. I would rather have that. But rather than the tC any older gen. Celica.
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