Well, would you drive one?

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[Brandane]

Looks ok to me, but then I'm a biker! One problem for me and electric vehicles of any type is the issue of recharging. I live in a flat with no garage. And of course it would depend on the price of the thing.

 

[ColinJ]

[QUOTE 2806149, member: 259"]It looks like it would be good fun, but in reality it would be useless at filtering so it wouldn't be whizzing stylishly around town, it would be sitting stationary in a traffic jam[/quote]
That's what I was going to say. The ads always make vehicles look lots of fun, but they never show them stuck in jams, surrounded by buses and HGVs.

 

[Flying Dodo]

So, Toyota want to have loads of little cars zooming around at 28 mph weaving in and out of traffic................

In addition, all those images of the vehicles zooming around were computer generated, so there's no way of knowing exactly how they would look in real life.

Interesting concept though.

 

[slowmotion]

It looks rather like skiing. Yes please!

 

[Shortmember]

It won't catch on in this country because the British are too self conscious and obsessed with looking cool to be seen scooting about in something as radical and outré as this I-Road thingy. They'll love it in France and Italy though, I'm sure.

 

[TonyEnjoyD]

Def give it a shot

 

[midliferider]

Any one who has experienced "Tuk Tuk" or 3 wheel vehicles in Indian subcontinent knows how menacing it is to have small vehicle like this roaming in the city.

 

[Smurfy]

It won't catch on in this country because the British are too self conscious and obsessed with looking cool to be seen scooting about in something as radical and outré as this I-Road thingy. They'll love it in France and Italy though, I'm sure.

It's got an 'i' in front of the name, doesn't that mean it's hip and cool by definition?

 

[Aperitif]

Yep - looks like a good concept. Similar, actually to the scooters abundant in Paris last weekend (and for a few years now), with the two wheels at the front doing the parallel-steer business. Pretty good graphic realisation of the iTraffic too! 10/10

 

[simon.r]

I like it, but I don't think I'd buy one. Too big and expensive to run to be a viable alternative to a motorbike or bicycle, too small to be a viable alternative to a car.

The Renault Twizy (which I'm assuming is a similar size and is electric) has been around a year or two now and I've only ever seen one on the road.

 

[biggs682]

if any car maker can make that kind of idea work then it can only be Toyota as long as they are Jap built not european built

 

[Brandane]

if any car maker can make that kind of idea work then it can only be Toyota as long as they are Jap built not european built

My Corolla was screwed together at Burnaston in Derbyshire, and is better built than any of the 7 Volkswagens I have owned over the years.

 

[velovoice]

It's as if a bicycle and a 2cv had a summer fling.

 

[Linford]

Meh....