Takayama Micro Freedom
You’ve heard the term “box on wheels” before, but the Takayama Micro Freedom takes that to a whole new level. It’s completely square and designed to use every inch of Japan’s Kei car dimensions.
The Micro Freedom is designed to be a multi-use space. It’s a car, but it can also be a mobile office. Or, like the display concept, it can have a slide-out body that doubles the size of the car when parked. Set up like that, the Micro Freedom can even be a tiny food truck.
Lexus LS+
The Lexus LS+ looks similar to the LF-FC that Lexus debuted at the 2015 Tokyo show, but it has some big changes. Like a whole new grille that ramps the Lexus spindle up to 11.
The hydrogen fuel cell is gone too. Instead, the LS+ offers what Lexus calls Highway Teammate. It’s a big pile of self-driving tech that lets the car merge, change lanes and follow the car in front. Lexus wants that technology in a road car by 2020. But probably not in a body this cool.
Even more impressively, Lexus says that the car’s connection to a central server lets it not just update software in real time, but to “learn and grow along with its users.”
