The front of the car has a new design with re-configured LED front headlamps and turn signals, a new fog lamp bezel and revised bumper. Hubbell said the 86 and C-HR will make their Toyota debuts next week on the show floor of the New York International Auto Show, which also will be the last auto show Scion is featured.įor its move to Toyota, the 86 sports car adopts more aggressive styling with a larger center intake emphasizing the low, wide stance of the car.
production version of the C-HR will be shown later this year and the vehicle will go on sale in spring 2017 as a 2018 model, the company said. Toyota also rebadged the Scion C-HR Concept it showed at the Los Angeles Auto Show to be a Toyota concept. LED Front Turn Signal Bulbs 2015-2020 Subaru WRX & STI / 2013-2016 Scion FR-S. All are due in dealerships this fall, she said. A snapshot of whats different about the BRZ : updated front end with LED. Hubbell said the Toyota 86 will go into production in July, followed by the Yaris iA and Corolla iM in August. The Scion tC sports coupe will end production in August. In addition to the 2017 Toyota 86 name change, the Scion iM hatchback will become the Toyota Corolla iM and the Scion iA sedan will move to the Toyota Yaris iA for the 2017 model-year. Nancy Hubbell, a company communications manager, said a great amount of thought went into the name change for the FR-S, with “a lot of executives weighing in.” “When we announced the transition of the Scion models to Toyota we hadn’t planned on changing the names of our cars, but by popular demand, for our sports car, we decided to adopt the global name of 86,” said Toyota Division Group Vice President Bill Fay in a statement “Enthusiasts have a strong association with the front-engine, rear-drive heritage of the ‘hachi-roku’ and the dynamic performance it offers.”
The name change was announced Thursday, six weeks after the Japanese automaker announced it was killing its youth-oriented Scion brand and absorbing most of its vehicles into the Toyota brand. is renaming its enthusiast-favorite Scion FR-S the Toyota 86, a name used currently for the sports car in countries outside of North America.