Japan Mobility Show, showcasing the car of the future in Tokyo with luxury concept cars and K-Car micro cars

The Tokyo show has always been a rendezvous with the future of the car, and now, renamed the Japan Mobility Show (JMS), it has the connotation of a window on the future of cars and personal mobility. But it is also an opportunity for the Japanese industry to assert its role at a time when the geopolitics of the car seems to be oriented around two poles: Europe and China, and we forget about the gigantic Japanese system with the world leader that is and always will be Toyota (even with allies Suzuki, Mazda and Subaru).

Aperto al Tokyo Big Sight fino al 9 novembre, questo salone è popolato di oggetti strani e originali, alcuni sembrano usciti da un cartone giapponese: come le sedie di Toyota con gambe di ragno robotiche per dare a tutti la possibilità di muoversi, anche senza l’auto, pur con gravi disabilità. E poi in rassegna tante, tantissime K-Car, quelle piccole e simpatiche auto che, vendute in Giappone, sono anche da noi sotto i riflettori dei media perché il mercato ha bisogno di macchine piccole, di basso costo ed elettriche. E proprio su queste “non auto”, dal punto di vista normativo, che si sta aprendo un dibattito politico e industriale, anche perché le micro macchine à la japonaise potrebbero creare da noi un mobility divide tra coloro che possono permettersi una vera e sicura automobile e quelli che invece andranno in giro con veicoli limitati. Tra le K-Car in mostra al Japan Mobility Show ci sono modelli come la Suzuki Vision e-Sky, minicar 100% elettrica (le macchinine jap invece nascono storicame

And it was on the Keicars that the Chinese of Byd went to challenge the Japanese at home and on their own turf by unveiling the little Racco at JMS.

The Toyota group is the absolute protagonist of the Tokyo kermesse. The manufacturer presented itself with an entire pavilion where the novelties, almost all of them in the form of futuristic concept cars, of all its brands were exhibited, including Century, which from an ultra-luxury Toyota model, at an imperial level, it must be said, able to compete on equal terms with Rolls-Royce, has become a true brand placed above Lexus.

Talking of the latter, Lexus presented its vision of the future under the spotlight of the Japanese show, with vans, even six-wheelers, as luxurious as a lounge, sports cars that launch drones to follow you around the track during a track day, but also everyday cars and futuristic mobility solutions with three-wheeled vehicles, as square as a trolley but as spacious as the business seat of a jet. A quarter of a century ago, with the LS (acronym for Luxury Sedan), Lexus challenged Mercedes and BMW. Today, with the LS Concept prototype, it replaces the "S" of Sedan with Space, inventing an extreme luxury MPV with six wheels, four of which are at the rear, that redefines the concept of mobility, comfort and space.