SPECIAL COMMENT: Scion Refocusing on North America is Offensive and Discriminatory
Yesterday Scion announced efforts to refocus its models and business on North America. Speaking with Automotive News, Yoshi Inaba, President of Toyota Motor North America Inc. said “Scion is pretty much a North American brand, so that is why it is very natural to think more development, more design work, should be done in North America.”
But pretty much doesn’t mean completely.
Atkins Kroll Scion of Tamuning, Guam, has been excluded from Scion’s revamp. The only Scion dealership outside the U.S. or Canada, Atkins Kroll carries the full line of Scions and offers them to people living in the island U.S. territory located 1500 miles east of the Philippines.
It’s clear that Toyota has it in for Guam. So what if Guam isn’t a state, or a commonwealth, or even an incorporated territory and so it has “unincorporated territory” status. It’s not Guam’s fault they can only send a non-voting rep to the House of Representatives. According to Wikipedia, Guam has the deepest point of the ocean in the world, the Mariana trench. Actually it’s not in Guam per se, but it’s in the water nearby.
In any event, shame on Toyota.
I hate two things – discrimination… and Guam.
Who gave Guam a Scion dealership?! I’m calling Inaba-san right now . . .