{"id":3316,"date":"2013-12-09T07:17:50","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T21:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/?p=3316"},"modified":"2023-08-22T22:04:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T12:04:53","slug":"tokyo-motor-show-the-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/home\/tokyo-motor-show-the-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Motor Show \u2013 The Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"

It must be a hard job, organising a motor show.  There\u2019s so many of them these days and it must be tricky to stop the shows becoming a bit same old-same old.  At any given motor show, you can guarantee that there will be three things: (1) several new cars that are actually going to hit the roads will be unveiled; (2) someone will put out a great idea for a concept car that may or may not make its way into regular production but is a blinking good idea; (3) there will be some concept cars that look tacky, trashy, weird, ugly or the lot combined. In the bad old days of the 1960s and 1970s, when free love was in with neither the feminists nor AIDS to stop such things, they had nude female models attracting attention to the new cars. Thankfully, that sort of cheap shot has stopped and the show organisers have realised that \u2013 gosh golly gee whiz \u2013 women buy and drive cars, too. The Tokyo Motor Show tends to be well known for having more than its fair share of bizarre and out-there concepts, and I suspect that it is this feature that keeps the enthusiasts coming.  And why not?<\/p>\n

With the three standard features in mind, I checked out the goodies at the recent Tokyo Motor Show to find representatives from all three categories:<\/p>\n

The New Production Cars:<\/p>\n