–Overview: Now that the rear-drive FR-S has had its brief moment, the tC coupe resumes the role of bestselling Scion, a position it has occupied for most of the brand’s 11-model-year life. An affordable two-door hatchback coupe sits squarely on-target for this youth-oriented brand that Toyota still refers to as its “test laboratory division.” (Its latest lab experiment is to let Mazda build Scion’s first sedan.) The tC was last
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– Toyota is adding 1.37 million vehicles to the Takata airbag recalls after reports from the Japanese airbag supplier showed the Corolla as one of the highest at-risk vehicles for shrapnel-shooting inflators. – Faulty passenger airbags were installed in more specific vehicles than Toyota had previously known, according to the company. The cars in this latest roundup, other examples of which were included in previous actions, include the 2003–2007 Corolla and Matrix,
– Volvo had no problems selling out the 750-unit global run of high-performance S60 and V60 Polestar models it produced for 2015, and the company recently confirmed it is offering up a second, equally sized batch of the tuned sedans and wagons for 2016. At that point, though, Volvo hadn’t yet worked out how many of those 750 2016 S60 and V60 Polestars were destined for the U.S. Consider that mystery now solved.– – – –
-The era of uncertainty is over: The BBC has just announced that Chris Evans will head up an all-new group of Top Gear hosts. – Evans, a hugely famous British TV and radio host, is the first confirmed replacement for the departed Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May. Evans has signed a three-year deal as the lead host of the show, according to TopGear.com. – The newly named host
