I’ll be trying one on for size

Introducing the Toyota/Scion Hako

For being mite-sized cars, I liked the original xB well enough (and the xA and Yaris even more). But this is one I can’t wait to see on showroom floors in the next couple years if Toyota lets Scion produce it.

For any Toyota design/management folks out there who may be reading (or others whom I wrote to last night), it is just this simple…

Make just two versions: One very basic and one sports edition. The basic edition gets a radio and a heater and a 1.3 liter that’ll get close to 40mpg marketed towards commuters.

The sportier edition gets the 2.0 liter mill and a kick ass exhaust. Make sure you mate it to a decent manual transmission.

This edition also comes with three different extra paint schemes: Matte Reddish-Brown, Matte Gray and Matte Black.

Also include two special wheel packages: One baby moon style and one full moon style.

Lastly, move the side mirrors to the top of A-Pillar.

Make 100,000 of them and get them over here ASAP for under 18K. I might even realistically be able to take one of each.

For those of you not interested in my requests to good ‘ol ToyodaCorp, click here to see the rest of the cars Popular Mechanics saw at the New York Auto Show.