The Nissan Figaro Treads Fine Line Between Retro and Cool

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Nissan NV2500 Concept Revealed Live

At A Glance: Nissan NV2500 Concept The Nissan NV2500 Concept presents a preview of Nissan North America, Inc.’s Highlights of the Nissan NV2500 Concept include: Powertrain • Front engine/rear-wheel drive Nissan NV2500 Concept

Nissan NV2500 Concept Revealed Live [Nissan Nv2500]

Nissan NV2500 Concept Makes World Debut – Previews Nissan’s Entry Into U.S. Commercial Vehicle Market The new vehicles will be joined by commercial vehicles from Nissan’s global CV lineup, creating a multi-segment CV lineup up to class 5 gross vehicle weight ratings (GVWR).

Top Ten Reasons The Paris Auto Show Press Room Sucks

Let's be clear, we wouldn't trade our time at the Paris Motor Show for anything. We're just saying that when we're trying to decide which international show's tops, it's hard to argue for a show that seems unable to buy comfortable chairs. Just sayin'...

Suzuki Kizashi 3 Concept Coming To New York Auto Show

The New York International Auto Show welcomes American Suzuki Motor Corp. on Thursday, March 20, as the company debuts its sleek and athletic Concept Kizashi 3, the final addition to its acclaimed Kizashi concept series. The Concept Kizashi 3, which suggests both Suzuki's future design...

Detroit Auto Show: Honda Concept Pilot Drawing Revealed for Detroit [Detroit Auto Show]

Prototype Honda Pilot Headed to North American International Auto Show A prototype of the next-generation Honda Pilot will be unveiled at the January 2008 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit, American Honda Motor Co., Inc., announced today.

Mazda to Reveal Furai Concept, 2009 Mazda RX-8 at Detroit Auto Show [Detroit Auto Show]

Mazda Taiki Making its North American debut, the first time it has been shown outside of Japan where it was hailed as the "Concept of the Show" by a major enthusiast publication at this year's Tokyo Motor Show, Mazda is eager to show the Mazda Taiki alongside the all-new Mazda Furai.

Tokyo Motor Show: The Mitsuoka Orochi Is Still The Ugliest "Super Car" Ever

As we get ready for next week's LA Auto Show, we're working on cleaning our SEMA and Tokyo Motor Show pictures off our camera. The first ones from Tokyo we need to get rid of — for fear we'll break our shiny black DSLR due to accidentally dropping it while retching — are our newest shots of the Oro...

Tokyo Motor Show: The Fine Ladies of Tokyo

We only go to auto shows like Tokyo for the cars and the rush of journalism. Occasionally our lenses accidentally catch the turntable ladies who are only meant to accentuate the product. It is a surprisingly frequent accident, so we will spare you the extended set. Enjoy the images in the gall...

Tokyo Motor Show: Mitsubishi Concept ZT

The betting odds say the Mitsubishi Concept ZT shown here at the Tokyo Auto Show this week will be the next Mitsubishi Gallant. And with a high-po 2.2-liter diesel and some new looks, we're guessing Mitsubishi can't be thinking their doing too much wrong with this here concept-cum-prototy...

Tokyo Motor Show: Custom Toyota Corolla Rumion/Scion xB by Kanji

It's a color some call orange flake — a deep tangerine overlaid with metallic sparkles. Others call it Hysterical Blindness Chrome, though when applied to the JDM version of the new Scion xB, it looks rather fetching indeed. Japan's Kanto Auto Works decked out this model with all manner of S...

Tokyo Motor Show: Nissan Intima Concept [Tokyo Auto Show]

We're about to be in the midst of the neo-classical phase of automobile design, led by Japanese automakers like Mazda, Toyota and, with its new Intima concept, Nissan. That means we'll be seeing a surge of panel surfaces that appear to have been carved by wind over centuries, rather than by...

Tokyo Motor Show: Alonso and Hamilton Helmets -- BFF!

The smart money's not on Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton spending another season together in the McLaren stable. But though neither won the F1 championship, and Alonso's probably flying the coop, their crazy, controversial and thoroughly enjoyable season was immortalized at the A...

Tokyo Motor Show: Daihatsu Open Future Concept 1 Roadster

Although it debuted in Frankfurt, Daihatsu featured its Open Future Concept, or OFC-1, in Tokyo. The mini roadster concept's powered by a turbocharged, 658cc three-cylinder engine the incorporates stop-start technology to increase fuel efficiency, the company says, to 69 mpg. Putti...

Tokyo Motor Show: Awesome JDM Coffee Cans

Imagine our surprise and delight when we realized the official press-room coffee-drink cans here in Tokyo — the same ones that kept us firing on most cylinders — are collectibles. Each one in the series features a JDM classic. We collected 'em all: The 1969 Nissan Fairlady Z432 (Datsun 240Z...

Tokyo Motor Show: Mitsubishi Fuso Canter Eco-D Concept Dump Truck

Well, that's not a headline you get to write every day. Our youths of digging holes to China and racing Tonka Trucks with a little brother in the dump bed have instilled a quiet respect for the rugged and purpose built nature of dump trucks. We could never have imagined one looking so hot. Unfort...

Tokyo Motor Show: Mazda Taiki Concept

Mazda's latest in a string of radical concepts that express organic themes, the Taiki is more than just a highly stylized sheetmetal sculpture that'll never see production. It's also the forum for Mazda's next-generation Renesis rotary engine, introduced here in Tokyo. Facing down hei...

Tokyo Motor Show: Toyota i-Real Concept Demo

One of Toyota's cadre of well-dressed reps present in Tokyo show us how the i-Real concept chair works. A promo video had just shown a freaky, albeit fictional, courtship ritual between two, blond Europeans who apparently met on their i-Reals, then gave birth to a several offspring, each...

Tokyo Motor Show: Toyota i-Real Can't Hide From us Behind a Fortress of Plastic Solitude

The Toyota i-Real concept chair proved an elusive target to photograph at the Toyota press conference yesterday here in Tokyo. In front of the chair and the stage stood throngs of Japanese press eagerly awaiting the emergence of Toyota chairman, Katsuaki "Ken" Watanabe, denying the sho...

Tokyo Motor Show: BMW 1-Series tii Revealed

You remember that BMW 1-Series "tii" concept we showed you yesterday? That's the concept version of the 1-Series that's supposed to be a like a mash-up E30 M3-like 2002 tii? The one the BMW fan-boys are all atwitter about because it may have a 2.0-liter turbo? Yeah, that's the one. Well, now w...

Tokyo Motor Show: Hyundai QarmaQ Crossover Concept, Again

If you'll remember from its original unveil at Geneva, this sporty little crossover coupe is the QarmaQ, Hyundai's concept designed to showcase environmentally progressive technologies, such as the Korean company's "Elastic Front." That's a pedestrian collision solution Hyundai...

Tokyo Motor Show: Toyota Hi-CT Concept

With a beltline cinched higher than your grandpa's waist band, the Hi-CT was officially revealed as a design concept by Toyota here at the 2007 Tokyo Motor Show. As we've said before, the Hi-CT concept car's meant to continue where the Scion brand leaves off — be youth-friendly and almost o...

Tokyo Motor Show: Subaru G4e EV Concept

We hear electricity is going to be huge someday, though we're not sure Subaru got the same memo. The company rolled out its all-electric G4e concept concept car in Tokyo, thought it was outshined handily by the new Impreza STI. The small hatch combines underfloor Li-on batteries with seati...

Tokyo Motor Show: Daihatsu Mud Master-C Concept

Way up on the list of coolest concepts in Tokyo is Daihatsu's Mud Master-C, a decked-out and widened version of the company's Hijet van. It's powered by an inline three-cylinder, 12-valve mud-mastering powerplant. Could jacked-up keivans be the next big thing in Japanese automotive obs...

Volkswagen Space Up! Concept [Tokyo Auto Show]

Wolfsburg/Tokyo, , 24 October 2007 - Just six weeks after the world premiere of the two-door city specialist - the up! - at the IAA in Frankfurt, Europe's largest car producer is now showing the next member of the "New Small Family" - the space up! concept car - at the Tokyo Motor Show.

Tokyo Motor Show: Honda CB1100F Revealed

There are few two-wheeled death machines in the world able to exploit all of my personal weaknesses simultaneously — the Honda CB1100F revealed here at the Tokyo Auto Show, would have to be one such motorcycle. The live reveal shots in the gallery are pure sex on wheels. Those earlier press p...

Top Gear Track, Episode Downloads Coming to Gran Turismo 5 And PS3

We've just heard some amazing news about the greatest automotive show on Earth, Top Gear. In fact, it was so amazing that despite it being 2:00 AM here in Tokyo (where we're at this week for the Tokyo Motor Show), it literally made us blink, swear under our breath, get up out of the chair and do a...

Tokyo Motor Show: Fuel Cell Powered Suzuki Crosscage Revealed

There you have it folks, proof that if you lock engineers in a room with a bag of LSD, it's possible for amazing things to happen. Somehow the magicians at Suzuki managed to cram an entire fuel cell system into the skeletal frame of the Suzuki Crosscage. It is a bit on the awkward-looking side. Bu...

Tokyo Motor Show: Honda Unveils CB1100R

We already dropped a couple bikes on you, but we missed the first of the lot revealed here at the Tokyo Motor Show (so that's why they call it "Motor" rather than "Auto," eh?). Here are the first real life shots of the Honda CB1100R we first showed you on Monday and which was the first bike seeing...

Tokyo Motor Show: Day One Round-Up

4.) The Volkswagen Space up! Concept. The other concept not revealed beforehand. Otherwise it's basically the up! concept revealed in Germany at the Frankfurt Auto Show, except bigger, longer and you know, more uncut. Tokyo Motor Show: Volkswagen Space Up! Concept Car

Tokyo Motor Show: Honda CR-Z Concept Car [Tokyo Auto Show]

We're totally digging the fact that the hybrid concept sports car cold war between Honda and Toyota just became a little bit more warm with the introduction and reveal of Honda's latest concept -- the Honda CR-Z. It's a look at both the next-generation of hybrid technology and exterior des...

Tokyo Motor Show: Sleek Suzuki Biplane Revealed

Tokyo Motor Show: New Nissan GT-R, Now In Bra-less Video

We've seen the new Nissan GT-R in spy videos and spy photos before, and we've seen the new Nissan GT-R live at the reveal, but we've never seen it fully without camouflage. Now, thanks to the wonderfully Franco-Nihon Nissan, we've got some video sans sound for your visual enjoyment. Godzill...

Tokyo Motor Show: Super Rad Volvo Duett

If you were on a roadside picnic in Sweden in the mid-1950s, you and your basket lunch of herring in reindeer sauce may have been transported in one of these. It's the Volvo Duett, a wagon also known as the P445. The perfectly restored model, complete with wood-slat cargo area, took center sta...

Tokyo Motor Show: Suzuki X-Head Concept

The second layer in Suzuki's Tokyo awesomeness involves a small SUV concept for those who commute with a large quantity of sporting equipment. It's the Suzuki X-Head concept, a smallish truck prototype that looks like the product of misguided congress between a big rig and a Suzuki Might...

Tokyo Motor Show: Suzuki Concept Kizashi 2

Suzuki came through with one of the best concepts of the show, the Kizashi 2. It's a new version of the Kizashi concept the company showed in Frankfurt. Under the hood is the suze's highest-displacement engine ever, a 3.6-liter V6. Among the concept cars here, this should win the Should Have a 4...

Tokyo Motor Show: Subaru WRX Impreza STI [Tokyo Auto Show]

Tokyo, October 24, 2007 - Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. (FHI), the maker of Subaru automobiles, has announced the introduction of its all-new Subaru Impreza WRX STI in Japan. The new WRX STI went on sale nationwide through Subaru dealerships today.

Tokyo Motor Show: Nissan GT-R Revealed [Tokyo Auto Show]

TOKYO (Oct. 24, 2007) - Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., today announced the launch of the Nissan GT-R, a new multi-dimensional performance machine that lives up to the concept of "an ultimate supercar for anyone, anywhere, at anytime". The Nissan GT-R features a newly developed Premium Midship pac...

Tokyo Motor Show: Honda EVO6 Spoiler [Tokyo Auto Show]

Let's play a game of 'what's missing from this picture' with the Honda EVO6, revealed live today at the Tokyo Auto Show. It will be hard, because we missed it at first and we were standing in front of the thing. Give up? No shifter. Yeah, it's an auto transmission. That's about enough said about th...

Tokyo Motor Show: Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X, Finally

After all of the teases, web reveals and even some tiny show in Sydney — we've finally had the chance to see the new Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X in person here at the Tokyo Auto Show and what can we say that hasn't already been said? Well, we'll add that we thought it was weird for Mitsu to choo...

Tokyo Motor Show: Volkswagen Space Up! Concept Car [Tokyo Auto Show]

A brief comparison: The space up! is exactly 23 centimeters longer than the up! shown at the IAA in Frankfurt; accordingly, its wheelbase is also larger (2.56 meter). At 1.54 meter, the van exhibits a height gain of four centimeters. Exterior design

Tokyo Motor Show: Audi A1 Metroproject Quattro Concept Car Revealed [Tokyo Auto Show]

At the Tokyo Motor Show (24.10. - 11.11.2007) Audi is unveiling the metroproject quattro, an original, characteristically Audi design study for the sub-compact segment. The three-door four-seater car blends dynamic styling with exemplary economy of space and supreme quality in trailbl...

Tokyo Motor Show: BMW 1-Series tii

Well, we're just off the train and we've just found out BMW's big surprise here at the Tokyo Auto Show is a sport concept version of the recently introduced 1-Series Coupe that's designed to evokes memories of the original E30 M3 — despite being named after the classic BMW 2002 tii. The pictu...

Tokyo Motor Show: Portable Toilet Unveiled

Of all the unveilings we've been waiting for out of this year's Tokyo Auto Show, none gets our bowels moving more than the news we just heard out of Kaneko Sangyo Co yesterday. The Japanese company claims it's developed "a portable toilet for use inside a car that totally conceals the user wi...

Tokyo Motor Show: Honda S2000 Type S Is The Honda S2000 Club Racer [Tokyo Auto Show]

We guess we'll be seeing the live reveal of the JDM Honda S2000 Type S in just a few short hours if these grainy press images are any indication. The Type S looks to be based on the Honda S2000 Club Racer which made its debut at the New York Motor Show earlier this year. In fact, by "based on" we reall...

Tokyo Motor Show: Audi Forum Tokyo

We could see this building in walking distance from our hotel and couldn't figure out what it was so decided to get a closer look. As we approached realized it's the sum total of what happens when you mix "Bruce" with real Japanese precision. You get the Audi Forum Tokyo — the world's greatest p...

Tokyo Motor Show: Japanese Subway Blurriness

We just finished mapping out how to get to the Makuhari Messe, site of the 2007 Tokyo Auto Show, and it wasn't until we were all the way to the Tokyo station that we first saw a sign for the big car show. Also, that's not blurriness because of how bad the camera is, it's motion blur because of how fa...

Suzuki Biplane Concept

Now this is what I'm talking about. Mix a Confederate Wraith, years of manga indoctrination, a gallon of high satin gold paint and you get the Suzuki Biplane concept. We'll be looking out for this pretty, pretty princess during the Tokyo Motor Show and trying to understand how a swoopy motor...

Tokyo Auto Show Preview: Honda PUYO Concept Car Has No Edges, Begs To Be Fondled [Tokyo Auto Show]

TOKYO, Japan, October 9, 2007-Honda Motor Co., Ltd. announced that it will exhibit production and concept automobiles and a number of technologies at the 40th Tokyo Motor Show (sponsored byJapan Automobile Manufacturers Association, Inc.), to be held from Saturday, October 27 to Sunda...

Nissan GT-R to Debut in Gran Turismo 5

On September 20, 2007, at the "Tokyo Game Show 2007" at Makuhari Messe, we announced a free downloadable demo and a change in the target release date for "Gran Turismo 5 Prologue". Coinciding with the start of the 40th Tokyo Motor Show 2007, we will be unveiling new car models as well in the fr...

Audi A1 Hybrid Coming to Tokyo

What's small, has four rings and sports a hybrid-drive system? Time's up, bitchez! It's the Audi A1 minicar, which Germany's Auto Motor und Sport says will appear at the Tokyo Motor Show this October powered by the company's new hybrid drive system. The new premium-entry hatch will repor...

Nissan GT-R to Drop in on Los Angeles Show

Some not-entirely-unexpected news came today via the North American Nissan GT-R Owner's Club. Word is, following the new Nissan sports coupe's unveiling at the Tokyo Motor Show in October, the GT-R will make its North American debut at the Los Angeles show in November. Specifically, it'...

Tokyo Auto Show: Audi A1 to Debut in Japan

If you thought Audi would roll out its new entry-level luxe subcompact for Europe in Frankfurt, Germany's Auto Motor und Sport says, sie sind eine grosse dumbkoff!! The A1, the mag says, will debut at the Tokyo Motor Show in October as a hybridized concept. According to Michael Dick, comma...