Overview & Reviews

The 2006 Scion tC receives a new three-spoke steering wheel with audio controls, and the Pioneer audio system has a new head unit design and remote mini-jack port for portable music sources. Newly available is integrated iPod connectivity, which delivers iPod display information and allows unit control through the audio system.

• High quality all around, unexpected safety and luxury features, tight handling, spacious cabin, bargain price.

• A couple of odd design elements, drab styling.

User Reviews:

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  Fun little Car :) - 2006 Scion TC
  By Lyn - July 18 - 10:43 pm

  I think this is a fun sporty little car for the price. Im pleased with it! :)

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  Lovin It - 2006 Scion TC
  By moots13181 - June 8 - 6:50 am

  Ive had my tC now for 8 months and driven it 18,000 miles. I do a wide variety of driving but on average mostly city. My mileage is usually 27+ mpg even with all city driving and winter gasoline, Im looking forward to seeing what summer gas/highway driving will do. I took care to break the engine/transmission in right and the car seems to be rewarding me with plentiful power and good economy. I really enjoy the torque around town and the wide power band on the highway. Many times I never even downshift to pass. My average highway mileage is 28.5mpg also on winter gas. The interior is very open and roomy, the seats are comfortable, supportive, and very adaptable. I love the gauges/dash design.

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  rattling noise in the trunk - 2006 Scion TC
  By Csaba - June 1 - 3:43 am

  I bought my Scion tC last October. I drive it every day in the city and on the highway and still feel the thrill every time I get in it. Its like you slip into it first time at the dealership, except now you know what to expect of its on road performance. Ive also experienced the rattling noise and it is easy to fix. I found that the noise caused by the trunk covers short plastic pins (on both sides) sitting and rattling in their sockets. Flip up the cover and put some soft material in the sockets, such as a piece of felt, rubber or just wrap a little (black electric) tape around the pins before you push them back in the sockets. Make it well fit and that should solve the problem.

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  First Toyota Product and not my Last! - 2006 Scion TC
  By Bruce G. - May 30 - 3:26 am

  My Scion tC has about 2,000 miles now and a review was in order since I read a lot before buying my car. I get 26 mpg in combined city / highway driving, which is a lot better then my Chevrolet Suburban got. I am 6 300 lbs. and I am comfortable in the car. I enjoy driving it, although the head-room is a problem. I have not had a problem with blind spots that others talk about, but that might be because I am so awhere of them from other reviews. I test drove a lot of other cars, including Saturns, the Mitsubishi Eclipse, Honda Accord, VWs, Chevrolet Cobalt, Toyota Matrix, Chevrolet HHR and the tC won out. I even took one car to another dealership and compared side by side. I did have to wait four weeks for my car but I got the color I wanted.

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  Scion is Good - 2006 Scion TC
  By geltz - April 13 - 5:33 pm

  My Scion tC is great, except for a few interior squeaks which the dealership fixed. It is fast for what it is and the shifter is top notch. I love every gear in this car, torque is never an issue.

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  I Love the Scion tC - 2006 Scion TC
  By Barb - March 16 - 10:06 pm

  I was initially looking at a different vehicle, someone suggested the Scion to me as an economical car. I am so glad they did, I love the tC - the look, the color (Black Cherry), the price, and the great fuel economy. I highly recommend this vehicle to anyone looking, its a sporty looking car, I love the sun/moon roofs, it gives a great ride and has great pickup for a 4 cylinder!

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  Scion tC - 2006 Scion TC
  By Airmenstc - March 9 - 12:06 pm

  Ive had my tC since December and really love the car. Its got a lot of power, style and comfort. I also liked the price for all the standard features. It is a solid, well built car and I feel great about Toyota products.

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  tC is a beautiful thing - 2006 Scion TC
  By Michael - February 26 - 9:20 am

  This car is a great starter car for kids, it is also a great tuner with unlimited potential. Its quick!

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  Tango-Charlie - 2006 Scion TC
  By carnut1973 - February 13 - 7:31 pm

  Purchased my Scion tC brand new for $15,900 (manual transmission)...an outstanding value for that price. Only thing I added was the rear wing, aluminum shift knob and the aluminum pedal covers. Decent styling in and out, good on gas, fun to drive and very reliable. Seating was comfortable for a long drive and the performance was decent for an economy-priced car. Where the economy-priced traits showed up were in interior noise, squeaks and rattles and poor paint quality--at least with the dark purple paint. Perhaps the lighter colors (i.e. white or silver) would wear better.

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  Decent little car but overpriced. - 2006 Scion TC
  By Jeremy - January 21 - 12:22 am

  I bought this car about a year and a half ago, totally in love with it at first. Good power band, predictable and quick for a car of this class. Right off the bat I replaced the suspension and did a modest 1/8th drop w/ coils, short shifter and a cold air intake. Modest modifications. The engine sounds really nice! But still, after you hit 60mph the power just seems to vanish. It pulls pretty hard off the line, but after 60mph (more accurately 3rd gear) the power dissipates and its simply disappointing. The Pros: Looks pretty nice, super easy to modify, plenty of parts to choose from, comfy (for the price), stereo is decent, and it handles surprisingly well at high speeds going into corners. Some people seem to have issues with reliability, Ive had no such complaint. I have yet to get a single check engine light short of my gas cap failing (OH NO NOT $5!). Sunroof works great, windows work great, plenty of trunk space and room for two passengers in the rear. AC works well enough, heater is nearly too hot. Cons: Theres a lot.... For starters, the blue and white instrument cluster is REALLY IRRITATING. The highbeam indicator is so bright at night, I had to apply duct tape over it because it affected my vision at night. The blue you can dim, but what a dull choice for the dash. Turn signals are blinding, cruise control light is blinding, everything on that cluster impairs vision at night. Then in the day, you cant see it! Its the most hilarious thing, at night youre blinded, during the day you have to squint to see your speed. Bummer. At high RPM, the engine sounds awesome. Low RPM, it nearly sounds broken. Theres this ever present noise that all Toyotas Ive owned make, but this one is particularly annoying. As you accellerate you can hear the drive train slowly getting louder and increasing in pitch. At first I liked it, it rather sounded like a go-kart, but now its frustrating. The standard manual stick shift had the longest throw Ive ever seen. It was really annoying. Id miss gears because the throw was so damn far. It was almost mandatory to install the TRD short shifter. Front left speaker broke nearly immediately for reasons unknown. The wire harnesses for my taillights literally lit on fire and required a $500 replacement. Gas mileage is worse than my Honda Prelude SHs, which was 6 years older, weighed almost 500lbs more AND put out about 40 more bhp. 26 highway and 19 city? What? Thats even when you reeeeaaallly baby the throttle. For a 4-cyl coupe w/ 160bhp, theres no reason for that at all. Weighs about as much as an aircraft carrier for its size. As I stated in the short review, the car is quick off the line (by quick I mean 6.9 second 0-60 w/ the short shifter), but super slow and lame after ~60mph. Fourth gear is a joke. Made worse by the fact that while cruising in 5th at 70MPH on the highway, the car is revved to 3.5K RPM. Which is simply goofy for a car that has no pull in 4th and 5th gear. EVERYTHING RATTLES! The interior door plastic rattles. Windows rattle. Rear windshield rattles. Dash rattles. All of the things in this car rattle. The build quality in this car is simply atrocious. For a car that costs this much money, what the [non-permissible content removed] My old 87 Celica GT had a million times better interior quality, and I bought it for $1k! They used the cheapest plastic Ive ever seen in a car. So much so that the plastic warped, so its not even or flush on the window after 1k miles. [non-permissible content removed] Honestly, the plastic of a Fisher-Price buggy has better plastic quality. The mesh of the seats (the option that I have, cant speak for cloth/leather) is comfy and easy to clean, but foul to the touch. Feels cheap like everything else. When I bought the car the clutch was too stiff, now its loose and unpredictable. Sometimes I can depress it half way and shift, other times it decides that I cant. Really confusing. At 115K miles the starter, ignition system and distributor cap failed simultaneously. $6k down the hole. I need to replace the spark plugs way more frequently than I should (nearly every 1K miles, probably related to the dead ignition system). THE SINGLE MOST ANNOYING THING YOU WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER WHEN DRIVING THIS CAR: Its a Corolla with an aluminum block. Still a corolla. The motor just isnt special at all. Cams are small. Transmission is weak. Not enough power etc. But occasionally youll be driving and remember "I could have saved $4k if I just bought a Corolla, and gotten the same effect". Except, somehow, even the corollas have better build quality than the Scion tC. Unless you like boring overpriced cars that have no power, suck gas like an SUV, but look nice. Go buy a Corolla. Their cheaper, more reliable, just as fast, more comfortable, get way better mileage and dont disappoint because you never expect anything out of corollas ;)