The Toyota bB Open Deck Is the Scion xB Pickup Truck We Never Got Stateside www.thedrive.com

The Scion xB was as polarizing as it was polygonal.
You'd struggle to find a car more divisive unless you researched the xB's genealogy and found out that it has an even weirder fraternal twin with a small truck bed called the Toyota bB Open Deck.
Thanks to Toyota's failed branding exercise that was the North America-exclusive Scion marque, only the U.S. and Canada know the Toyota bB as the Scion xB, and only Japan knew the bB's short-lived Open Deck variant.
In addition to the biggest, most obvious difference from the normal bB, the Open-Deck featured several smaller alterations that further increase its quirk factor.
Unlike the Scion xB, which had a floor-mounted shifter, the Toyota bB's shifter was on the steering column to make way for front bench seats, which the bB Open Deck strangely lacked, instead mixing the xB's separate front seats and the bB's column shifter.