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Prius light cycle

1 November 2007, 8:43 PM

At the Geneva Motor Show earlier this year, Toyota revealed the Tron car. No, wait, I mean it revealed a Prius concept car that looks an awful lot like a four-seater light cycle.

More recently, Toyota has shown off another concept car, the 1/X, so-called because "it weighs 1/Xth the weight of other similar sized models." Which is to say, it's about 1/3 the weight of a Prius; its frame uses carbon-fiber reinforced plastic. And it gets about double the gas mileage of the Prius.

But of course these are just concept cars; there's no indication that they'll ever go into production.

Comments

Of course, one feature of the light cycle is that it has rather poor rear visibility....

Posted by: David Moles (mail) (web) | November 2, 2007 3:48 AM

Who needs rear visibility? We look forward! To the future! We scoff at your outmoded backward-facing mentality!

Posted by: Jed (mail) (web) | November 2, 2007 10:17 AM

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