The 2016 Scion iA is a fantastic small car, however there are just two things we are all likely to need to get over in respect to the newest subcompact. First, Scion re-badged a Mazda 2 to to create the Iowa to life. And 2nd: its clumsy nose.

Those may or might not be insurmountable hurdles, depending on your own aesthetic sensibilities and your devotion to the scrappy Zoom Zoom manufacturer from Hiroshima. The Iowa is, in the end, only the sedan edition of the sassy Mazda 2, which until only last month was predicted to arrive in U.S. Mazda car dealers by the start of 2016 in good-looking hatchback type. But Mazda has made a decision to pull the plug on the THE TWO for the US and Canadian marketplaces at least in the near term--the automobile had previously acquired EPA fuel economy estimates and everything--apparently to concentrate on its more lucrative versions. And so the Scion iA is our only use of the new Mazda 2 in any kind. And it is a vehicle that, as it turns out, is just as pleasant to operate a vehicle as we might have expected.

When it comes to Scion's schnoz, we are informed it was created by by Toyota stylists in Japan for this automobile, which is sold not only as the Scion iA in in America but in addition as the Toyota Yaris sedan in Mexico and Canada. (By The Way, Toyota will carry on attempting to sell us the French-assembled Yaris for now in hatchback type exclusively, even though the nextgen version eventually goes to the Mazda 2 system, at the same time.) The headlamps and hood are Mazda bits, as-is every thing aft of them; just the "soft parts" (fender, grille, etc.) of the frontend are exceptional to the Iowa. What this means is that from almost any angle, it resembles a shrunken Mazda 3, maybe not a Toyota/Scion such a thing, also it felt quite unnatural to push ourselves to find out the automobile as a Scion when we fell upon the small sedans coming and going through the press drive-in Malibu, Ca. On the other hand, we are auto individuals; few individuals buying in this section will likely see and even fewer will care.

Look Past the Nose

What they'll (and should) value is the automobile's powerful packaging, high degree of gear, and excellent dynamics. The inside is basically unchanged from the Mazda 2, which wedges nearly all of the Mazda 3's design and engineering into sub-compact measurements. While it appears and feels completely incongruous to other Scions, for instance, newest iM hatchback (which likewise arrives in dealerships in September), that does not remove from the cottage's total superiority. We like its