First Drive Review
When you think Scion, you think "cool," right? (Okay, maybe you think something along the lines of "brain-dead teenagers driving ridiculous-looking cars," but just play along.) "Cool" easily explains the funky-chic, breadbox-shaped xB's sales success, as thousands and thousands of people rampaged through Scion dealership kiosks to put one of the trendy cubes in their driveway-some 60,000 last year, in fact.
"Cool" also explains why the xB outsold the smaller Scion xA by a margin of nearly two to one last year. The xA was seriously dorky, drove every bit like the cheap econocar it was and, let's face it, wasn't much for the eyes-it looked like a melted stack of pancakes. It was so not cool. For 2008, though, Scion has sent the xA off to the great big rave in the sky and replaced it with the all-new xD.
With the new car comes a new personality. The xD is way more fun and, yes, far more cool than the xA. Whereas the older car needed a bunch of bolt-ons to look decent, the xD, which shares more than a passing resemblance to the equally new, second-generation xB, wears sheetmetal that's handsome from the git-go.
