Toyota today announced the new Ractis "tall wagon" model for JDM sales:

Read the announcement here

What makes this model interesting is that this could become the basis for the successor to the Scion xA. I can see Toyota offering this model in the USA in Federalized form with both five-speed manual and CVT-7 automatic under the Scion xA name.

Here's a picture of the Ractis:

 

Quite possible....but I still perfer the "car-like" look of the current xA as opposed to the wagon look. That's my only real gripe with the Fit. Being so tall, it looks more mini-vanish. At least it doesn't look like the xB. And being a Honda, I'll still perfer it over the xA...

 

I don't like it. It looks too much like a van.

 

By definition, "tall wagons" like the new Ractis does tend to look like shrunken vans, mostly because the passengers tend to seat in upright positions and have high headroom levels. (In many ways, the Scion xB has this feel.)

I still guess that this will replace the Scion xA, mostly because while a lot of people like the roominess of the Scion xB they're off-put by the funky styling of the xB; besides, it would certainly sell a lot more than the current xA model.

 

nice! when will this get to the usa? I really like how the designers blended the retro/future lines together! To offer a panoramic roof is brilliant because not only does it add a bigger exterior look but also "opens" up the interior space as well..I love it when car mfr's show some "balls" in executing unique designs.. Another thing I like and any 91 Integra, 91 and 93 civic hatchback can attest to.. Is that no other part of the car recieves as much solar torture as the roof..Every Honda I have owned which has been 15 total at one time...the clear coat on the roof will begin to lose there clearcoat..the glass roof nicely avoids that inevetability