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D 6 - The Oakville Beaver, W e d n e s d a y N o v e m b e r 7, 2001 Weird and wacky at Tokyo Motor Show T here's nothing quite like They are: "warning", "thank you" the bi-annual Tokyo and "please give way." The Honda Unibox is just that Motor Show to draw out weird and wacky vehicles and - a huge, six-wheel, slab-sided this year's 35th edition was no vehicle with a girder-like skeleton on which can be hung exception. different colour body And nothing quite panels including seeprepares you for the through panels. Small, Toyota POD. Looking collapsible motor scoot like a giant herring can, ers fit in each door. On the POD was jointly the inside, the trim is a developed with Sony. It combination of alu starts with a series of Uminum and high quality shaped LEDS across wood. The aluminum the broad nose that skeleton seats can be express (believe it or placed in several posi not) the driver's feel ings. The eyes (head Road Worthy tions and with the allclear plastic body sides. lights), mouth (grille) Honda rightfully says the and earj (door mirrors) light up in 10 different colours to express Unibox offers unparalleled vision emotions including happiness, for the driver and passengers. Looking more like the frosting surprise and sadness. Colours include red for angry, orange for on a cake, the Suzuki Lapin was happy, blue for sad and light blue another box on wheels, but in for sleepy. This conveyance even lime green and bright white. With has a little mechanical tail at the a see-through steering wheel to back that wags cheerfully as the view the strip LED with white owner approaches. The reaction is readout information, the fourset off by the key fob and it also door Lapin is powered by a 668 opens the door and swivels the cc DOHC engine and definitely driver's seat to make it easier to designed for the meagre clear ances of Japanese urban back get in. The car can judge the emo streets. And then there is Mitsuoka tional state of the driver based on pre-recorded driving data like where individuality and bad taste steering, braking and accelera combine to produce some truly tion. odd vehicles. One of the oddest is The POD can detect if a driver the Mitsuoka Orochie super car is going too fast through accelera concept. It has 18-inch wire tion and distance to the next car in wheels aping the Bugatti 51 and front. It also monitors the pulse long, extruded headlight character rate and perspiration of the driver. lines like those of a Jaguar S-Type If they are high, it will literally try gone wrong. But what really does it is the to calm the driver down by dis playing warnings, playing relax smirking little grille that looks ing music and blowing cool air at shaped like the smile of the Cheshire car in Alice in the face. In addition to turn signals, the Wonderland where, no doubt, POD also has three audible phras inspiration for this apparition es that can be heard by others. came from. JIM ROBINSON Toyota POD Suzuki Lapin Nissan Nails Honda Unibox Mitsuoka Orochie ISN'T IT TIME YOU HAD THE BEST? 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