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- The Scion TC is a front-wheel drive
compact car that was released in 2004.
This is the same year Halo 2 was released
so it's not all bad.
TC stands for touring coupe, or total crap
if you ask anyone over the age of 25.
It was designed to attract the youth,
kinda like cigarettes.
Marketing made you think it was cool,
but in reality it's bad for your health.
The TC first generation was powered by
a 2.4 liter, four cylinder putting out
an astonishing 161 horsepower,
or 200 horsepower with the factory option
turd super McCharger.
The Scion TC dropped onto the scene
with tons of after market options
to upgrade your new whip,
like DLC from EA that nobody wants to pay for.
Maybe it should be called the Scion DLC.
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The Scion TC isn't the fastest car on the market,
but it is
a car.
Today we sit down with an owner and have a good old chat.
Driver to driver.
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- Don't forget, wheels, tires, suspension
at Fitment Industries dot com.
I am Dakota from Fitment Industries
and I am here with Luigi.
- I'm here with, he's actually here with Mario.
- Mario, that's what I said.
- But that was, that was good.
- I know.
- I haven't heard that one before.
- I know.
- In my whole 22 years of living.
- All right, let's not beat around the bush.
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How much did you pay for that millennial machine?
- I think back in the day,
total with like taxes and like title and registration
and all that kind of good stuff,
I think it was like 12,000.
- You get it from the dealership or something?
- No, I bought it off of Craigslist.
- Oh okay, all right.
- Yeah, it was off the old Craigsy.
- You were 16 dropping 12 G's?
- I was.
- When I was 16 I was like dropping classes.
- Same.
I was doing that as well.
- You were quitting your classes to get money?
- Yup.
I would just skip class and work.
What?
- All right.
- Is that weird?
- No.
All right, so yours was the turd edition
with the super charger, right?
- Yes.
- You wanna expand on that a little bit?
- So yeah, when I got it, it was
a super charged that came factory.
TRD actually, they made like-
- Turd.
- Fully series, special editions and everything.
It was cool.
It was cool for a 16 year old, you know?
- Yeah, I mean, how'd that
super charger do?
- Super charger didn't do so hot.
It only lasted like two years.
- Two years?
- Before it took a, took a shit.
- Blew up?
- Yeah, so.
- Okay, all right.
- So I was fucking driving, right?
Actually, I wasn't driving.
I was doing a pull with one of my buddies.
- You were racing?
- I was racing.
- Did you win?
- No, I didn't win.
It blew up.
So I was racing and my friend had a turbo TC.
- The Scion TC.
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- We were going and I was like winning,
you know, I was ahead and then boom.
- I know.
- And it blew up.
- Dang.
- And then next thing you know, I had a motor
that was blown up and then my super charger
was trashed and
that was the end of that.
- So the turbo one was okay?
- Yeah, that one lived.
It still lived.
- Sounds like you should have just
turbo charged it and not buy the super charger.
- I should have just bought a different car.
Nah, I'm just-
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- What's up guys, I got the deals for you.
I'm here with Joey and we have a deal
that's going on when you order some Kansei wheels,
you like Kansei wheels?
Well guess what, we got some dope shirts.
Turn around, show them the shirt.
He drives one of them Scion Toyota things.
And tell them more about it.
- Yeah, so pick up one of these shirts
and you get automatically entered in to win.
- Yeah, that's what I mean.
So you pick out a shirt and you get automatically
entered to win.
It's in the math, thank you.
Let's hear what the YouTube community
has to say about the TC.
We got some questions from some great people.
- All right, let's hear it.
- AkeyPlaysGames asks, what are the advantages
to buying a TC over any other Japanese car?
- They're cool.
I don't know.
- They're cooler than all the other Japanese cars?
- They're affordable.
No, not all the other Japanese cars, but.
- 12,000 dollars for a TC isn't too affordable.
- It's an affordable car to start modifying
when you know, you're 16 years old,
you don't have much money.
- You had 12 G's to blow.
You had money.
- That's 'cause I had a Niatsu.
- Okay yoshi.
(yoshi cries)
- I think I was gonna get originally a Saturn.
It was like a super charged Saturn.
- Oh yeah, yeah.
The Iod Red Light.
- Yeah, the Iod Red Light.
- I bet you that wouldn't have blown up.
Toyotas are supposed to be pretty reliable,
but you managed to fuck that up.
Mark Schranz says, does the car drive
as boring as it looks?
- No, or I guess,
before the super charger blew,
it was actually pretty fun.
It was speedy, it was front wheel drive.
No one expected it.
- It went fast?
- It was a sleeper.
It was pretty quick, yeah.
- Doing my math and all the research
I've been doing for years,
it looks like the super charged Scion Tcs
had 200 horsepower from the factory.
- I think it was like 220.
- That's about as slow as Joe's FRS
and he had an NA.
- It was quick, all right?
No one expected it.
- Quick compared to what?
- No one expected it.
You know, I had like a five O Mustang
or something like that.
- I don't think anyone expected it to be fast.
- For me it was quick, all right?
Compared to the little Neon, it was quick.
- For 12 G's was it quick?
- Yeah.
- I would have rather put 12 G's into the Neon.
Scionblade79 wants to know, are there any
main problems to look out for
like the super charger blowing up?
- Other than the super charger, no.
There's like annoying things,
like the front bumper just always like,
it just pops out.
- Is it like your car specifically
or all of 'em?
- No it's every Scion TC out there.
- All the bumpers pop off?
- The bumpers pop, they don't stick.
They don't stay in place, I don't know why
but you always have to get out
and you have to do like one of these.
(smacking hands)
You know?
I mean, other than that, not really.
- Bowser, you're a silly guy.
- If it wasn't for the super charger,
it would have been the most reliable car ever.
- Halcyon is very concerned and asks,
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- Not Halcyon.
- How many middle school students necks
does he break per week on average?
- Dude, middle schoolers love this car, all right?
If you're under the age of like 14,
this is the coolest car you've ever seen.
And it was like a midnight blue,
so like it stuck out from the rest.
- What does midnight blue mean?
- It's like a darker blue, I don't know.
- Like how blue looks at midnight?
- Yeah, when you're looking at the sky.
- I'm more of like a 10pm blue.
- But yeah, shout out to Halcyon.
You know.
He's a god when it comes to videos.
- Wow, all right.
He does make pretty cool vids.
- I think he just got an SRT-4 too, didn't he?
- He's had it.
He's working on it.
- Cool.
- Yeah, it's a lot cooler than a TC.
- I bet it is.
- Well, I don't know.
- It's kind of comparable to the TC.
- They're comparable?
- A little bit.
They're pretty cool.
- Do you think you could beat a Scion,
or could you beat an SRT-4 in a race
with your Scion TC?
- No.
- So what's comparable?
Luigi, what the hell you doing?
- I'm sorry.
- Get it together toad.
- I don't know what to tell you.
- All right, Eddiev8 wants to know,
did you get a TC because you're naughty
and enjoy getting spanked?
- My mom is the only person that spanks me.
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- And then a ton of peeps just wanna know why?
- Because why not?
- Why?
- If you own a Scion TC,
- Why?
- I got it, you know, five, six years ago.
It's like the perfect entry level car.
It's not the insurance isn't too crazy.
It's a coupe and you know,
you could modify it.
It's a good entry level vehicle, all right?
- It doesn't sound good.
It sounds like you blew it up right away
and you spent 12 grand on it.
- I didn't know what I was doing back then.
I was 16 years old.
- What would you have done differently
to not blow it up?
- Uh, not drive as hard.
- Not drive as fast?
- Literally not drive it fast as much as I used to.
- As much.
Did you just never change the oil?
- I changed the oil every, whenever I needed to.
It was just the fact that I was-
- I changed the oil every year.
Once a year.
- Vroom, vroom, vroom.
Just speeding around town.
- Oh it is manual?
- Of course.
- Well, you never know with you.
And I want to know,
this is a question from me personally.
Why do they make the logo so weird?
Why is there a little t and a big C?
You think it's because they do a little bit
of touring, but they're a lot of coupe?
- I mean, it is a coupe so maybe.
- Why is the T so little and the C so big?
- I think the Scion logo is actually pretty cool.
- Not the Scion, no, no.
- I do agree, the TC, I don't like that
it's like a lowercase T and like a big C.
- Yeah.
- Like that I didn't like, so I just took
the emblems off.
But yeah, I would agree with you on that.
- You agree, it was a question.
All right, but it's a good first car?
- It's a great first car.
It's a very good first car, all right?
It is.
- Over any other Japanese sports car?
- What other Japanese, I guess,
when you're 16 years old?
- For 12 G's, a 350z.
- I guess, yeah.
- What mods do you have done to that hefty boy?
- Oh god.
It's not a whole lot, but got obviously
all the RS2 stuff.
The front bumper, the back bumper,
the side skirts.
- Wait, is that from a factory?
- Yeah, it comes like that.
It's like the special edition so all that
kind of good stuff.
- Okay, okay.
I know.
- The tank coil overs and then I had,
- Tank coil overs.
- At the time I had the AO'd Hans DSO 2's
or something like that.
- What do you got in it now?
- Right now I have the 3STM's 04's.
They're pretty cool, two directional.
- Okay.
- The finish is pretty cool too.
Other than that, that's pretty much it.
Got like a little spoiler.
I had a magniful exhaust, however.
I got rear-ended and then obviously
the insurance company didn't cover that
and then I just got too lazy and then
didn't buy another one.
- So there's just no exhaust?
- Right now, no.
- What?
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- It's kind of weird.
It's pretty weird.
- There's no exhaust?
- No.
- Nothing?
- No.
Well I mean obviously there's a stock exhaust.
- Oh you got a stock exhaust, all right.
The way you made it sound just sound like
you just, ahh.
- They didn't wanna cover, you know, the ...
- Okay, okay.
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Have you had any other problems with it
other than you blowing it up trying to race?
- No.
Any other issues have been out of my control.
I've gotten rear-ended before, I think twice.
Which is very unfortunate, but.
- Sounds like a fun car.
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And that about wraps it up.
Thank you Mario for coming on the show.
We appreciate you letting us poke some fun
at that TC thingy you got going on.
And remember.
Any wheels, tire, suspension
in this episode we have over at fitment
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Check it out and we love you.
- Peace.
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Do you guys still do that?
Peace.
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