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ELECTRONICALLY<br />
REPRINTED FROM<br />
APRIL 24, 2012<br />
FOR DRIVERS<br />
Driven: 2013 Scion FR-S<br />
—Las Vegas, Nevada<br />
Cars like the Scion FR-S don’t come along every year.<br />
Sure, almost every modern car is competent; in fact, impres-<br />
sively so, if you have as a reference the 1970s or 1980s. But<br />
few cars make experienced drivers repeatedly shake their<br />
heads, utter phrases like “damn, that’s good,” and struggle<br />
to explain the smiles they’re wearing. The Scion FR-S is one<br />
of these latter cars. And we should add that—after experi-<br />
encing a bevy of canyon, track and highway miles—we’re<br />
pretty confident the Scion FR-S is not for every sports car<br />
buyer, despite its excellence. If you’re seriously interested<br />
in this car, you’ll want to stay tuned and understand why.<br />
The FR-S is the logical child of some serious dating by<br />
Toyota and Subaru. There are probably many ways <a title="90879_elite page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4c7a2366?page=1"> ELECTRONICALLY REPRINTED FROM APRIL 24, 2012</a>
<a title="90879_elite page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4c7a2366?page=2"> As one measure of that load floor, Scion has desi</a>
<a title="90879_elite page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4c7a2366?page=3"> That sense is reinforced because the interior </a>
<a title="90879_elite page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4c7a2366?page=4"> And yet, we think you’ll want to know that we’d w</a>
<a title="90879_elite page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4c7a2366?page=5"> Another scenario involves track days. The FR-S </a>
<a title="90879_elite page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4c7a2366?page=6"> the street, the FR-S more balanced on the track. </a>