All Tokyo 2013 articles
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Konnichiwa from Tokyo Big Sight
Konnichiwa from Tokyo Big Sight, home of the 43rd Tokyo motor show
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New Mini 3: The end of car design as we know it?
98 millimetres longer and 44 millimetres wider than the car it replaces, on the face of it the only surprising thing about the third generation of BMW Mini is that it is 7mm taller than the car it replaces
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I’m a (Suzuki) Hustler baby
Take a Toyota FJ, look at it through the wrong end of a telescope and add a little anime to its detailing and you wouldn’t be far from the Suzuki Huslter
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Concept (truck) of the show: Daihatsu FC Deck
This is why people love coming to the Tokyo motorshow – concepts like the Daihatsu FC Deck
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Nissan IDx pair channel retro JDM redux
The Nissan IDx Freeflow and IDx Nismo pair offer bookends on theme inspired by the classic Datsun 501
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This man’s hat is made of zips
Motor shows are always a great source of the interesting accessory
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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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Daihatsu does cool and detached
Daihatsu might be a vaguely defined brand from a production design perspective but it has a strong record of concepts at the Tokyo show that punch well above their weight
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Nissan IDx Freeflow & Nismo – a closer look
We like nice surprises at CDN and Nissan provided not one but two at the 2013 Tokyo show
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Nissan BladeGlider – an unconventional Uma Thurman kind of beauty
Nissan’s preview photos of its Blade Glider revealed before its official Tokyo show unveil piqued good interest at CDN Towers, and seeing the innovative three-seater in the flesh only enhanced our positive thoughts about the concept
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Two out of three ain’t bad at Mitsubishi
Arguably, Mitsubishi’s design has lacked a consistent direction of late, but Masaki Matsuhara – who became styling director in October 2010 – is aiming to resolve that with a series of concepts expressing a new face and 360-degree identity
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Suzuki Crosshiker concept surprises and delights
Following on from the widely admired Regina concept from 2011, the Suzuki Crosshiker takes its predecessor’s form language and applies it to a delightfully compact crossover
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Porsche Macan lays claim to mid-size premium SUV crown
We clearly didn’t get the memo, because we were quite surprised to see the Macan in Tokyo
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Lexus RC galvanises brand’s design resurgence
It's testimony to Lexus’s current design flair and bold surface language that many designers asked us of the RC, “is it a production preview?”