The Scion tC stands for, I'm assuming, Scion Toyota Celica. It fills the same role in the Toyota lineup, as the small two door coupe which is supposed to appeal to the sporty, cool, interesting people who buy such things. Or rather, used to buy such things, there aren't very many on the market anymore. The first one was a perfectly nice two door coupe, this one is slightly less so.
From the front, the first thing you notice is that the headlights are a lot like the headlights on a Honda Accord. Actually, the front end as a whole is a lot like a Honda, especially on the lower bumper, with a big rectangular hole. Honda loves doing big rectangular holes for their lower air intake, generally with the absolute minimum of styling. Combined with the Accord lamps one wonders if the badges were wrong. Actually, this car seems to ape a lot of Honda's less admirable styling qualities.
One thing you can't see from this angle is how short the thing is. The vertical lines around the cabin emphasize the length on that part of the body, which really deemphasizes the length of the hood and trunk. It looks short and squat, which isn't exactly sporting.
The roof is bizarre, actually. For one, the windows are really too narrow, which someone clearly thinks makes a car look cool and low - it's certainly on trend - but here makes the unadorned sides look extremely thick. Then the back window ends in a point way too soon, leading to this massive C-Pillar, and lots of metal on the lower roof. I'm assuming it's an attempt to be sporting, but it looks like a miscommunication, like someone didn't know just how long the roof would be.
Moving on to the back, somebody put the wrong taillights on it. The trunk lid and rear fenders contort themselves to match them - and include a reference to the very much not sporty Honda Pilot in the process - but it doesn't work. These are the wrong taillights. It also showcases how preposterously thick the car is from this angle. That's a lot of sheet metal, and all the accent lines and big shapes in the world can't hide that. A sports car should look athletic, this looks like a small house. Not as visible from this particular angle is the area around the license plate, which has such a big molding on top one wonders if a mistake wasn't made during the manufacturing process.
Is the new tC good looking? It's squat, it's short, it seems to have many of the wrong parts fitted and it doesn't have that sense of movement that a good sports car needs. It's less Usain Bolt, more nuclear bunker.
Scion tC drivers, your car is ugly.
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