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Automotive News reports Toyota will power its IQ microcar with an engine from Yamaha. That from unnamed company executives.
Toyota’s not volunteering any information on the powertrain selected for a production version of the minicar concept, which showed up in Frankfurt sans engine. The sources say Yamaha Motor, may build the engine for Toyota. Though we’d imagine they could just slap in the 1.2-liter four from the V-Max and start a minicar horsepower war.
Direct from the minds of Yamaha is a 4-wheel machine that no one would confuse with a car… it’s a four-wheeled motorcycle!
Yamaha’s Hybrid Motorcycle Answer
Yamaha’s Tesseract is a hybrid powered by both a V-Twin gas powerplant and an electric motor. The suspension is what they call a “dual-scythe” which leans while cornering… just like we do on 2 wheels. Taken from the Piaggio MP3 page, it also has a dual arm lock to keep the Tesseract upright when stopped.
Here’s a machine that could convince car fans to get on their 4-wheel bike.
It seems like the run on gas prices has many manufacturers rethinking their future product mix. From 1 wheel to 4 wheels and from gas to electric, engineers are burning the midnight oil to determine what can benefit the consumer as well as what the consumer will purchase.
Source: AutoBlog
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Source: Motorcycle Daily
Dateline: November 2007
The Star Raider is a radically styled “custom” cruiser that handles well and is safe and easy to ride. WOW… try that with one of those big choppers.
As the saying goes… radically raked front ends and huge rear tires tend to work against these goals, but Star Raider got it right…
Get the details on this review right here at Motorcycle Daily.
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