{"id":114938,"date":"2016-02-03T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T01:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=114938"},"modified":"2016-02-03T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T01:19:00","slug":"toyota-pulls-the-plug-on-scion-small-car-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=114938","title":{"rendered":"Toyota pulls the plug on Scion small car brand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\" data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\".s480g83thc.$default.0.0.2.5.0.0.$Col1-0-ContentCanvasProxy.$Col1-0-ContentCanvas.0.4.0:$3\">Toyota Motor Corp said on Wednesday it will wind down its Scion brand in the United States, ending a 12-year effort to create a separate identity for small cars aimed at young buyers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\" data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\".s480g83thc.$default.0.0.2.5.0.0.$Col1-0-ContentCanvasProxy.$Col1-0-ContentCanvas.0.4.0:$3\">Toyota said it will start rebadging three 2017 model Scion cars as Toyotas starting in August. The Scion tC small coupe will go out of production in August, Toyota said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\" data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\".s480g83thc.$default.0.0.2.5.0.0.$Col1-0-ContentCanvasProxy.$Col1-0-ContentCanvas.0.4.0:$4\">Scion sales peaked a\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/autos\/toyota-pulls-plug-scion-small-150305639.html\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\" data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\".s480g83thc.$default.0.0.2.5.0.0.$Col1-0-ContentCanvasProxy.$Col1-0-ContentCanvas.0.4.0:$4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota Motor Corp said on Wednesday it will wind down its Scion brand in the United States, ending a 12-year effort to create a separate identity for small cars aimed at young buyers. Toyota said it will start rebadging three 2017 model Scion cars as Toyotas starting in August. The Scion tC small coupe will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114939,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114938\/revisions\/114939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}