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Since 2003, Toyota has been rolling out new personal mobility concept vehicles at the Tokyo Motor Show. The first was simply called the PM - for Personal Mobility - in 2003. After that came the (http://www.autoblog.com/2005/11/21/toyotas-i-unit-on-the-street/) in 2005, the(http://www.autoblog.com/2005/10/20/toyota-i-swing-debuts-at-tokyo/) in 2005 and again in 2007, along with two takes on the *(http://green.autoblog.com/2007/10/10/tokyo-2007-preview-personal-mobility-from-toyota-i-real-concep/) in 2007 and 2009. Even though the PM had a canopy and was conceived for urban use, it was little more than a chair on wheels, and the concepts that followed shed the canopy and actually were chairs on wheels.
Toyota engineers said they gathered feedback on those four visions of single-person transport in order to come up with its latest concept, the *(http://www.green.autoblog.com/tag/i-road|toyota+i-road/). It takes elements from the previous concepts and puts them together in a package that is much more road ready. And unlike those other efforts, the i-Road is going into production.
After visting a Ha:mo carsharing station in Toyota’s Ecoful Town, we were given a brief chance to drive the i-Road in a large parking lot, and it only took one loop to know that we’d love to have this trike in Los Angeles.Continue reading Testing Toyota’s three-wheel, leaning i-Road trike in Japan
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