Road Test | Toyota Scion TC
Newsweek, September, 2004 by Tara Weingarten
Why should kids have all the fun? Though Toyota asked its youngest designers to build a line of cars they themselves would want to drive, this newest Scion, the tC, appeals to my short-on-cash but want-it-all-anyway inner teen. For $17,265 the hatchback tC is long on extras like an in-dash 160-watt Pioneer CD audio system with six speakers; power windows, doors and mirrors; a tilt steering wheel; halogen headlights and two moonroofs, one each for front-and rear-seat passengers. The sporty instrument panel is whimsical: chromed accents everywhere and edgy amber illuminated gauges.
I think the tC's 160-horsepower, 2.4-liter, four-cylinder engine is spry, and handling is very good. But what I particularly like, seeing as this is likely to be an inexperienced driver's car, are...
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