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Daihatsu HVS
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Daihatsu's HVS (Hybrid Vehicle Sports), which debuted at last month's Frankfurt show, is a small, cute, lightweight sports car concept with a tidy, two-seat cabin and a hybrid four-wheel-drive drivetrain.... more |
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Daihatsu Esse
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The Esse (the name is derived from the word essence) is a plain and simple, 660-cc five-door that is a kind of modern, miniaturized redo of the 1980s-era Renault 5.... more |
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Daihatsu Tanto FCHV Concept
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The boxy Tanto FCHV is Daihatsu's latest small fuel-cell hybrid concept, and it uses a fuel-cell stack sourced from Toyota. This time, the stack is smaller and is mounted under the seats, changing places with the secondary battery that's now located beneath the rear floor in order to maximize the li... more |
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Daihatsu Costa Concept
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The Costa is a small, funky four-wheel-drive runabout with a doorless, semi-open body. The theme here is a casual, breezy, urban runabout for four with a basic, hose-out interior featuring a deck floor, hammock seats, and clearly very little in the way of weather production... more |
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Daihatsu UFE-III Concept
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The UFE-III is a third-generation, 660-cc super streamliner concept that follows the UFE (from the 2001 Tokyo Motor Show) and the UFE-II (from the 2003 show). The 2005 UFE-III (for Ultra Fuel Economy) is now a three-seat car with a centrally located driving position and a big, lift-up canopy door.... more |
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Daihatsu SK Tourer Concept
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Japan is awash with small, quirky, 660-cc minivans, but the SK Tourer concept is clearly something different. It forgoes the boxy, anti-design look in favor of a smooth, attractive, Eurocentric silhouette that's all curves, and adds a big glass roof and a set of snazzy crystal-cut headlamps.... more |
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Toyota RAV4 Concept
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The 2007 Toyota RAV4 grows significantly and will now offer three-row seating. An available V-6 will produce around 300 hp and make this one of the fastest Toyota vehicles since the Supra disappeared seven years ago.... more |
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Toyota Estima Hybrid Concept
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This is Toyota's second-generation Estima hybrid minivan in Japan. Its hybrid system marries a 2.4-liter four-cylinder and a 100 kW electric motor. A 50 kW motor driving the rear wheels provides four-wheel-drive capability.... more |
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Toyota i-swing
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You might suspect that Toyota is instigating a sexual revolution with its recent concepts, the vaguely phallic i-unit and the free-loving i-swing, but the i-swing is merely the latest in a long line of wacko, single-seat personal vehicles, following the Pod (2001), the PM (2003), and the aforementio... more |
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Scion bB Concept
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Toyota's first-generation bB (for Black Box) was a smash hit with young car buyers in Japan--and also in the USA, where it's sold as the Scion xB.The small, boxy, utilitarian, anti-establishment feel of the bB was what helped make it popular.... more |
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