Leave it to the Japanese
Most of the time, the international auto show circuit is pretty mundane. Sure, every once in a while there's an iconic debut, and certainly everybody (who doesn't live in Rear-Wheel-Drive Land) needs to see a Lamborghini in person at least once, but otherwise there's just not that much going on. Not so, however, at the Tokyo International Auto Show, where auto manufacturers go nuts delivering concepts that can only be appreciated by the Japanese.
Submitted for your consideration is this photo gallery of the MINI Tokyo Concept. The theme is picnic -- which is crazy enough for a concept car -- but it's all the weird touches that MINI have added that really make this thing something that only the Japanese can dig on. The wheels... the stripey side-mirror caps... the coordinating set of freaking china.... Anyway, click and enjoy. Japan is truly the home of culturally-enshrined bizarreness.
Submitted for your consideration is this photo gallery of the MINI Tokyo Concept. The theme is picnic -- which is crazy enough for a concept car -- but it's all the weird touches that MINI have added that really make this thing something that only the Japanese can dig on. The wheels... the stripey side-mirror caps... the coordinating set of freaking china.... Anyway, click and enjoy. Japan is truly the home of culturally-enshrined bizarreness.
posted by Buckwalter at 10:38 AM
2 Comments:
I guess we should have paid the extra bucks to get our matching set of china. Poor Janet is feeling very depressed, I'm sure. But we love her -- china or no.
I got hit by that car the other day. But the anti-impact de-momentumizer dampened the crash so much, it wasn't entirely unpleasant.
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