2012 Scion iQ

Although the Scion iQ is new in the U.S., it is more than familiar with the rest of the world. Other countries have had micro-cars for years, Toyota is just the latest manufacturer to bring to the United States. The question is whether to accept the United States. With a tiny 1.3-liter, 94-hp engine, the Scion iQ was the second least powerful tool in our 2012 COTY competition, admitting only to the all-electric Mitsubishi i MiEV, the less power but more torque. In fact, the iQ is the fourth-slowest car of all 2011 and 2012 model year vehicles we tested, only faster than the iMiev and the two Fiat 500 Convertible. In tests, the meanders of the iQ to 60 in 10.8 seconds, while stopping the quarter mile in 18.1 seconds at 77.1 miles per hour. For easy commuting around town, this form of power is sufficient, but somewhere else to drive the iQ as a surface street is an adventure in itself. On the highway, the iQ is not his own way, would be a manual to help, but not much. To the short wheelbase and narrow path iQ on grooved highways hike. And if not, but if one half on the highway past a hang on the wheel, because the amount of exercise you will of the wind-power to do more than just your attention.

Things are not much better when you are on a slippery road with sharp curves straight. The small size of the high center of gravity making the car with your hands if you try to throw around him. It seems like you can do with this car, but you can not. The iQ feels very unstable under heavy braking, the nose dives and wobbles back and hunches, not what you want in a vehicle. There is also the problem of constantly feeling like you would see fall. Like the brakes, that's not a feeling that you want while driving. Chris Theodore said: "The exterior design is beautiful, the interior is ultra-modern and the materials have a quality look and feel." There was a constant pounding on the inside, and this is the placement of the front and rear ends of the seat adjuster. When Allyson Harwood said: "If the seats to a manual setting, you go put it as a bar under the front of the chair, not on the side where everyone expects to be that the underlying handle." More than a few editors that exactly the same opinion.

The biggest complaint of all the terms of its iQ city EPA rating of 36, 37 highway. A car like this looks like it can and must be at least 50 mpg. A small car with a small engine is good in theory, but the small engine has to work harder for the same results as a slightly larger engine moves to produce a slightly larger load, but does not work so hard. It's a double edged sword. There is no way around, except for the addition of a hybrid system. Theodore took the iQ best: "It is less stupid than smart, but still not the Dean's List." Vehicles like the iQ in the U.S. just does not make sense, either a gain or a usability perspective. It is not enough revenue, and the Americans are still not thrilled with super-small cars, except in very specific situations such as driving in the city. Unfortunately, like other micro-cars we have here in the States, the Scion iQ is very suitable for everywhere but the U.S.