Toyota Had The Biggest Wtf Minute At The Tokyo Motor Show

The 46th Tokyo Motor Show 2019 had everything: cutesy-patootie sub-compact cars, bonkers concept SUVs, cool-looking EVs, a novel fashionable wagon, together with thence yous induce got this: the Toyota e-broom. It had the biggest “WTF” minute at the exhibit together with elicited to a greater extent than confused reaction than applause when Toyota President Akio Toyoda together with his cartoon counterpart, Morizo showed it to the press.

Officially, Toyota describes the e-broom as: “Modeled subsequently a broom used yesteryear a witch to wing through the air, this mobility platform integrates people together with machines, allowing users to reaffirm the enjoyment of mobility.”

It’s also a real literal induce got on “being swept upward inward the mobility of the future.”

In reality what nosotros encounter is a phallic-looking stick alongside an electrical motor stuck to it. Well, at to the lowest degree it allows its riders on inline skates to null through feeling similar Harry Potter.

Toyota says it’s all purpose of their grand invention to transform itself from beingness only an automaker to a full-blown mobility provider. But honestly? It shows their engineers only induce got equally good much gratis fourth dimension on their hands. C’mon Toyota—we nigh forgave yous for coming upward alongside the BMW Supra, together with forthwith yous give the globe the e-broom?