Should you need any more evidence that the world of cars has become a crazy, mixed-up international world, you should have been at the Tokyo auto show's first press conference this morning. The company displayed more languages at its press conference than it did automobiles. You had German (of course), Japanese, Italian and English. No Esperanto though...
Well, the company showed the hot-rod Passat R36 and Tiguan to the Japanese market. Its big unveil was the still-rather-small space up! concept vehicle. It is merely a stretched version of the up! concept that VW unveiled at the Frankfurt show earlier this fall. Same rear-engine layout. Same smiling face. In fact, we think VW even flew over the same intensely Aryan "family" of models to demonstrate it. Auf Wiedersehen. Sayonara. Arrivederci. Bye-bye -- Daniel Pund, Senior Editor Detroit, Inside Line
estreka says:
10:45 PM, 10/23/07
Boy that looks cramped. I think they'd fit better in a GT- er, Rabbit.
puristsoul says:
02:01 AM, 10/26/07
Stangely, I'm not excited by the up! But, I do like this stretched space up! concept. I hope they bring this one over to the US.