Features – Page 12
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Turn the lights down low…
The Honda exhibition wasn’t the only show stand with dim lighting – we found the same to be true at cross town rival Toyota
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Video: Tokuo Fukuichi, Toyota’s Design Chief, on the Fun-Vii concept
A younger generation disenfranchised with the automobile is a very real and troubling issue with the automobile industry in Japan. Marketers, designers and engineers are trying hard to cater to this demographic, looking for anything that will resonate with generation Y and Z
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Tokyo’s Smart Mobility City
Every automaker with an environmentally efficient vehicle was showcasing it at this year’s Smart Mobility City exhibition space
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A supermini interior battle
While there may be a sense of disappointment surrounding the Twingo’s very nicely executed but fairly conservative exterior, when you go inside the car the mood changes dramatically
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Stand size isn’t everything
The Geneva motor show doesn’t really have the space (or the inclination?) for the huge automotive temples Frankfurt seems to attract
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Toyota FT-1 channels the Supra, out-Vipers the Viper
The big surprise, or maybe really the only surprise, at Detroit this year was the unveiling of the Toyota FT-1 concept this morning at Cobo Center
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Toyota JPN Taxi is the new black (cab)
Full marks to Toyota for giving its JPN Taxi Concept prime showstand real estate alongside its other headline concepts
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Would the real Toyota face please step forward? (we hope it’s not the one that looks like a ripped-out fireplace)
Would the real Toyota face please step forward? (we hope it’s not the one that looks like a ripped-out fireplace)
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Toyota’s origami-inspired stand? A bit flat, really.
Toyota made a big fuss about the debut of its new global stand design, dubbed ‘The Wave’
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Video: Toyota i-Road – i-Like the way you move
It’s easy to dismiss the Toyota i-Road concept as a straight copy of the Renault Twizy. But the way the Japanese ‘new mobility’ device moves is far more sophisticated than the rather agricultural French buggy
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Comment: Subaru Boxer Sports Car Architecture
Rumour suggested that Subaru was going to bring a new concept car to Geneva, based on the same rear-wheel drive architecture as Toyota’s FT-86
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Comment: Should Toyota have left the FT-86 alone?
The FT-86 II is the latest interpretation of the much-lauded FT-86 concept originally shown at the 2009 Tokyo motor show
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Comment + gallery: Toyota’s Yaris HSD concept
The HSD concept previews the design direction for the next generation Yaris, but there’s nothing groundbreaking here
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Comment: Toyota cleverness
Although there wasn’t much innovative design on show at the Toyota stand, I absolutely loved these clever hideaway ethernet/power connections at Frankfurt.
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Toyota NS4 hints at next-gen hybrid
Apparently, the ‘4’ in Toyota’s NS4 concept doesn’t stand as an unsubtle reference to what the next (fourth) generation Prius might look like
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Toyota RAV4: the fake sound of progress?
It’s easy to forget in the burgeoning world of CUVs that Toyota’s original 1996 RAV4 effectively gave birth to the segment