2008 Scion tC Spy Car
From SCION-TECH : The Scion Resource : tC, xA, xB, xD
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[edit] Edmunds Article
LAS VEGAS — Scion's SEMA showstoppers include a Scion Widebody tC by Extreme Dimensions/Scion racing driver Christian Rado, outfitted with a "secret agent setup" that includes a smoke screen, oil slick, night vision, and a flame thrower.
Scion said in a statement that it has doubled its booth size from last year to accommodate the debut of various project vehicles, including the Scion xA Speedster by Huntington Beach, California-based Five Axis. The Speedster includes three interlinked Xbox gaming centers with Forza Motorsport racing software.
An xB by tuner Fred Chang was transformed into a "Japanese wagon culture" vehicle with a KK-TopLine body kit, HKS Hi-Power exhaust and a custom eight-point roll cage with harness bar. The Scion xA by Motegi Racing and Turn 3 Creative is designed to "reach out to the brothers and sisters of the skateboarding world." With the help of project sponsors Sony, ALSA Corporation and Carbon Creations, Motegi installed a custom skateboard rack to hold two carbon-fiber skateboards from Revolution and a skateboard ramp with built-in subwoofers.
What this means to you: Scion demonstrates a serious commitment to tuners — and skateboarders. If it can keep its credibility with this market, then it'll be successful for years to come.
[edit] Super Street Article
When it comes down to it, fantasizing about being a secret agent for the government isn't about traveling the globe to spy on the enemy or using the latest in technology to detect bombs and spot confidential documents. When it comes down to it, being a secret agent is about getting the international dime breezies. 'Nuff said. Sure, it would be entertaining to sport adaptive camouflage and dip inside an amphibious Aston Martin DB5--cool, no doubt. But that's not why we dream about being the double-O-seven.
We watch all the James Bond flicks and live vicariously through him because, damnit, we want to bust the guts of Bond girls like Honey Ryder, Pussy Galore, Kissy Suzuki, Mary Goodnight, and my favorite, Holly Goodhead. It's every man's dream at one point--after being a cowboy, a baseball player, a rapper, and even a pimp--to become a secret agent. But crossing the line, turning fantasy into reality, takes a different type of man, someone who has all the time in the world and doesn't apologize for it. Meet Christian Rado, a habitual line stepper who more than crossed the line, he done erased it, drew it again, and spit on it, as supported by his latest project, what I dub the Octopussy-mobile Scion tC.
Complete with Spy Hunter-inspired vehicular gadgets, sure to inflict the cruelest and most unusual punishments on any given enemy, and maybe (hopefully) even drop the pants of unsuspecting women, this widebody tC quite possibly represents the most extensive work ever done to a car. Billed as a show car, this is Christian's first attempt at building a ride that's not entirely suited for the quarter-mile, where he makes his living as the WORLD Racing Pro FWD Scion tC driver. This tC quite simply is a design that satiates Christian's eccentric taste. "I wanted to build something that had some purpose or theme to it," explains the professional drag racer, who currently sports a mane of JC-inspired long, hippie locks, "And all the James Bond and Spy Hunter cars fascinated me as a kid. So I couldn't just slap some wheels, graphics, body kit, and BS tuner accessories on the tC and call it the Bond car. That's just not how I do things. If it's a spy car, it needs all the real stuff that an agent could use."
