Posts Tagged ‘Japanese’

The Honda P-Nut Concept Vehicle

Friday, March 5th, 2010

The Honda P-Nut Concept VehicleThe Honda P-Nut, a Honda concept vehicle. P-Nut is short for Personal-Neo Urban Transport and you can find out all about this ultra compact concept vehicle.

You gotta hand it to the Japanese. They may have some weird and wacky ideas when it comes to cars, but at least they have the conviction to follow through and create something. Japanese car manufacturer Honda continues this trend with their new concept car, the P-NUT. The car’s name is an acronym for Personal-Neo Urban Transport. Clever, no?The Honda P-Nut Concept VehicleHonda designed the car, something they call an ultra compact, to show that small cars could still provide the comfort you get with a mid-size vehicle. The car has a small footprint, measuring 3.4 m long, 1.75 m wide and 1.4 meters tall (11.2 x 5.7 x 4.6 feet), making ideal, according to Honda’s marketing people, for those living in densely populated urban areas. Continue reading The Honda P-Nut Concept Vehicle

Toyota Recalls Millions

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

Toyota Recalls MillionsToyota recalls millions of unsafe vehicles. The Toyota massive quagmire most likely won’t take down this Goliath in the car industry, but it will hurt the company. It’s going to be a long time for this Japanese car manufacturer to re-gain our trust again.

It looks like 2010 just isn’t going to be Toyota’s year. In less than a month, the Japanese mega-giant car manufacturer has been humbled, a mighty goliath brought down by a tiny stone. Well, maybe that’s how some might see it. However, the stone isn’t quite so tiny. When important parts of a vehicle, like the gas pedal and brakes, begin to malfunction, it cannot be taken likely. Continue reading Toyota Recalls Millions

IRL: Takuma Sato moves to IndyCar series

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Former Formula 1 driver Takuma Sato will return to racing in the IRL: Takuma Sato moves to IndyCar series after inking a deal with KV Racing for this coming season.

Sato, who had been sidelined since his Super Aguri days in mid-2008, had long been linked with an IndyCar move and visited last year’s Indianapolis 500. Continue reading IRL: Takuma Sato moves to IndyCar series

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