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Tokyo Motor Show: Suzuki Pixy & SSC

Justin Gardiner — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:03:00 EST

Filed under: Concept Cars, Japan, Tokyo Motor Show, Suzuki

The 2007 Tokyo Motor Show ended last week, but today we're cleaning out our closet of yet-to-be published posts from this biggest of biannual Japanese auto shows.

There's more than a hint of Toyota's PM, i-Swing and i-REAL series about this concept. But where Toyota admits that the driver may occasionally want to get out of the pod, Suzuki sees no reason for such extravagant use of your legs when operating the PIXY. Leaving the city for a blast down the highway? Just drive your PIXY in to your SSC mothership. Want to go for a thrash though the mountains? Park up in your SSF sports-car unit. There's even a speed boat (SSJ) on the cards, not that you'd be able to smell the sea breeze. Both the PIXY and SSC appear to be hermatically sealed and were unbearably hot under the stage lights. Ideal transportation for a post nuclear war world perhaps?

Gallery: Suzuki Sustainable Mobility (PIXY + SSC)

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Tokyo 2007 Preview: Take your Suzuki PIXY to the track or beach

Alex Nunez — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:46:00 EST

Filed under: Concept Cars, Hybrid, Japan, Tokyo Motor Show, Suzuki

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In the future, when walking is completely obsolete (in Japan, at least), and humans ditch their Nikes in favor of personal mobility devices like the Suzuki PIXY, mankind will still be able to take part in the fun stuff like driving sports cars and boating. We'll just have to do it from within the confines of our PIXY pods. In addition to the 2-person SSC (Suzuki Sharing Coach), Suzuki has come up with the SSF, a single-person sports car meant to accommodate the PIXY, and the SSJ, a PIXY-ready watercraft. Both will be presented (sketches of them, at least) at the Tokyo Motor Show this month. We're waiting for the day when future Tokyo concepts from the Japanese manufacturers eschew the human body altogether and simply turn us into wheeled versions of the B'omarr Monks from the Star Wars universe.

[Source: Suzuki]

Gallery: Suzuki Sustainable Mobility Concept (PIXY + SSC)

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Tokyo 2007 Preview: More pix of Suzuki's PIXY + SSC

Alex Nunez — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:48:00 EST

Filed under: Concept Cars, Hybrid, Japan, Tokyo Motor Show, Suzuki

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Details on Suzuki's Sustainable Mobility concept remain scarce. As we first reported last weekend, the package is comprised of the PIXY single-person pod and the SSC (Suzuki Sharing Coach) twin-pod mothership. Short of concrete info on how it works, we do have additional photos of Suzuki's womb-like pods and their communal express ride to baggage claim... or the supermarket or wherever. We'd love to explain why the side panels on the SSC open the way they do (the sills seem a bit high for non-PIXY'd passenger access), but we can't, as the details are still largely under wraps. Speculate away in the comments while we wait for Autoblog's Team Tokyo to get the rest of the skinny for us.

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Gallery: Suzuki Sustainable Mobility Concept (PIXY + SSC)

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