Need for Speed was Never So Realistic
Only available in the U.S., Scion is Toyota's edgiest brand, but now that Honda's future-think Element is old news and Nissan has announced that its
even squarer Cube is headed to our shores the once dramatically rectangular xB is hardly the event on wheels it was when spotted on California's SUV-laden highways a couple of years ago. But the Five Axis' new xA Speedster would be.
The Five Axis xA, which was revealed a couple of months ago at the Specialty Equipment Manufacturers' Association trade show in Las Vegas, now simply known as SEMA, is truly sensational. To think that somewhere underneath its flashy bodywork sits a run of the mill xA, is
hard to imagine, but therein the truth lies.
The concept was conjured up to bring light to Five Axis, a Huntington Beach, California customizer and fabricator of one-off cars, from ¼-scale models to full-size prototypes. Unlike some independent design and fab shops, mind you, Five Axis had full approval of Toyota, Scion's parent company.
A decision was quickly made to pull the xA into xB and tC territory by capturing "combine the captivating, audience interface of the Widebody xB DJ with the aggressive styling mods of the Widebody tC" (see gallery for photo), or so Toyota's press release states.
Only available in the U.S., Scion is Toyota's edgiest brand, but now that Honda's future-think Element is old news and Nissan has announced that its
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| To think that somewhere underneath its flashy bodywork sits a run of the mill xA, is hard to imagine. (Photo: Scion and Five Axis) |
The Five Axis xA, which was revealed a couple of months ago at the Specialty Equipment Manufacturers' Association trade show in Las Vegas, now simply known as SEMA, is truly sensational. To think that somewhere underneath its flashy bodywork sits a run of the mill xA, is
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| The xA Speedster is going after the same audience as Five Axis' Widebody xB DJ. (Photo: Scion and Five Axis) |
The concept was conjured up to bring light to Five Axis, a Huntington Beach, California customizer and fabricator of one-off cars, from ¼-scale models to full-size prototypes. Unlike some independent design and fab shops, mind you, Five Axis had full approval of Toyota, Scion's parent company.
A decision was quickly made to pull the xA into xB and tC territory by capturing "combine the captivating, audience interface of the Widebody xB DJ with the aggressive styling mods of the Widebody tC" (see gallery for photo), or so Toyota's press release states.
