Tokyo Motor Show 2019

Miscellaneous

Moving upstairs and on to the next halls, this gives you a fair idea of the crowds.

In the background, the Lexus centerpiece, and in the foreground the various Mercedes vehicles. Getting close to take pictures was at times a real challenge.

 

Here is where the third party and components manufacturers are, as well as new products are being introduced.

 

Falken is at every show with their custom add-ons for all sorts of vehicles (and booth babes)

 

 

From the caption in the video frame above, I guess that this is some sort of AI equipped future EV that will take care of headlight and directional lights, as needed

 

The Yokohama tag tells me that she's promoting tires

 

I remember them from the 2017 Motor show with their bicycle tire invention. One thing is certain, no flats and no punctures to mess up a ride

 

 

These, too, were present in 2017, but here, with a radically different design. The engineering students of the Kogakuin Univ taking advantage of new technology.

 

Goodyear was here with some very interesting wheels and tires concepts, e.g. this one illuminates from inside

 

 

This is as far out as it gets. Here an innovative wheel/tire design is also a turbine wheel that can be used, when rotated, to propel a craft through the air (I could imagine that a spin-off would work under water as well). I took this off the video frames. At the top you can see it in full flight, then coming in for a landing, rotating two tires for absorbing the landing shock. Once considered down, the other two wheels rotate down as well, and the vehicle is in the ground transportation mode. Fantastic concept, and I think we'll see this again. The durability is a question for me, but new materials are now available (with more to come) that may make that a moot concern.

 

And I spoke too soon. There was another European manufacturer present, however, upstairs and not on the main floor. The venerable Vespa, old and new, on display here, staying true to their iconic design.

 

Tokyo supercar clubs and car dealers were here with all sorts of exotic machinery

 

On the more mundane side, future computerized, electrical city transportation capsules

 

And there was this little lovable toy

 

Show Award winner of some category (glitterati?). Clearly a 1958 Chevrolet coupe. Wow!

 

And the next show already being announced, the famous Tokyo Auto Salon

 

 

Then I tried to find the rest of the exhibit, a couple of miles away. On the way there was this jumble of sclupted stone that turned into the pianoplayers when viewed from the right angle. Finding the rest of the show was frustrating, not only to me, but also to Japanese who I met along the way.

 

Spied this fisherman across the harbor canal

 

Amd then got here. Some show annex, in part still under construction, but it was not clear what was where. Also, it was getting late and I was getting tired.

 

I ran into these two little guys and you know them already,
the mascots of the upcoming Tokyo Olympic 2020 Summer games

 

Was briefly entertained by an animated pussycat from behind a mirror, that followed along as I walked by

 

There was a sleek looking new electric drone

 

I was totally impressed by this one-man rescue drone/vehicle

 

And you don't even have to ask which of these three EVs I would want. There can be only one.

 

Japan's planned Moon lander and mini-rover

 

And their family of space launch vehicles

 

I was in Toyota territory, but never found the actual Toyota show display hall, nor Subaru's, for that matter. There was construction going on and without a guide, forget it. For me it was, literally, RTB. A two-hour transition across Tokyo back to Yokota Air Base.

 

On the way back to California, stopped over at the Hickam AFB terminal, on Oahu, Hawaii

 

Fed some sharp-eyed birds

 

 

And did a Moon shot through some palm tree fronds, later in the day