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06-29-2009, 10:45 AM | #1 |
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Aston Martin to sell rebadged ... Toyota iQ?
Wow. This is kinda odd news: Aston Martin will be selling rebadged iQs ...
http://www.subcompactculture.com/200...toyota-iq.html
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06-29-2009, 10:48 AM | #2 |
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Hmm. It's a bit too early to see how the styling would be changed, but an interesting idea.
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06-29-2009, 11:16 AM | #3 |
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Probably will have HID lights, leather seats and a wood trim dash.
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06-29-2009, 11:42 AM | #4 |
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You're kidding right?...other Wise this will be my first super luxury car! Kinda like buying a Beamer bike so I can say I have a BMW.
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06-29-2009, 12:14 PM | #5 |
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It's supposedly going to cost around $32,000!
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06-29-2009, 12:20 PM | #6 |
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It'd have to be tricked out like Bond's DB-5 in Goldfinger.
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06-29-2009, 04:18 PM | #7 |
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Toyota makes great products but this idea will fly as well as the Cadillac Cimarron. GMs terrible use of the J body style for the 1980s The product won't be up to the expectations of the typical Aston Martin buyer. And Newbies to the Aston Martin brand wouldn't pay 1,000s more for something they could buy from Toyota
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06-29-2009, 04:41 PM | #8 |
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They are not going to sell them. Toyota just commissioned their design people to spice up an iQ for marketing/ad purposes. Looks like it started a buzz eh?
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06-29-2009, 06:32 PM | #9 |
and have a V12!
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06-29-2009, 06:33 PM | #10 | |
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repost?
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06-29-2009, 08:04 PM | #11 |
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Yes, this was first posted in the off-topic area around 4:30am today. My bad.
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06-29-2009, 11:59 PM | #12 |
Thing looks awesome
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06-30-2009, 01:46 AM | #13 |
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AM is looking into ways of cutting its CO2 emissions?
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06-30-2009, 03:08 AM | #14 |
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06-30-2009, 09:39 AM | #15 |
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If Toyota brings the iQ to the U.S. via Scion with more aggressive styling (as suggested in article linked above) I think I will barf. I am sick of faux, design-in-anger flourishes that are meaningless. Give us a plain old iQ and forget the silly Scion-esque ferverinos please. A little class is all I ask for.
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06-30-2009, 10:53 AM | #16 | |
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coming from a yaris owner i can only LOLOLOLOL at this
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06-30-2009, 11:54 AM | #17 |
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The pea-green Scion iQ you see has the 5Axis body kit. It's extremely unlikely that's what they'll look like on the showroom floor. Remember the xA and the xB when they first came out? 5Axis had stupid ass body kits on those, and lo and behold: the xA and xB came out plain like vanilla. I wouldn't buy the iQ if it came with that body kit. It doesn't flow well at all.
So: don't worry about the body kit. It'll have "class."
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