iQ: small, clever, not a kei car
There’s a particularly interesting post over on Wired’s Autopia. It explains the popularity of small cars in Japan, where the streets are crowded and fuel isn’t cheap. Kei cars are one particular […]
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Car of the Year reaction
Plenty of sites seem to have picked up on iQ’s triumph in Car of the Year Japan. There’s renewed interest from green writers, with thegreencarwebsite.co.uk eagerly awaiting iQ’s 6 January UK launch. […]
iQ wins Car of the Year Japan
Hot on the heals of scooping the Grand Award in Japan’s Good Design Awards, iQ has won again. This time it’s Car of the Year Japan 2008-2009, an award decided mostly by […]
Interior designs
Continuing our occasional posts on design in its wider sense, we’ve been looking at building interiors. Here are a few favourite pictures – all from America, which had quite a week. Interior […]
The rise of the artomobile
Engineers might only need to stroll around a collection of cars to see art, but for others it takes something a bit more special. Enter the art car. People have been decorating […]
iQ in pictures
Better late than never, Addam has sent us more pictures of iQ in Paris at the time of the motor show. He’s added them to the This is iQ Flickr group, where […]
Things to do with iQ
iQ’s design makes it pretty flexible. Even so it’s turning up in a few odd places. On Flickr, cava_cavien captured a Toyota event featuring iQ driving up the Sony building in Ginza […]
iQ shorts
We’re enjoying a series of shorts produced to advertise iQ ahead of its Japanese launch. In the first, a lone iQ performs a few litter-picking trick shots. The second gives a great […]
iQ all over the world
This week we’ve seen people painting iQ in Japan, and a German magazine starting a global rumour. Now, an Indian motoring blog has a photo of iQ in road-going trim. Our attention’s […]
Rumour mills
Rumours can be fickle. Just last week it seemed that the internet was abuzz with talk of iQ making it to US shores. It’s still a topic of discussion, but this week’s […]
iQ paint contest
Toyota in Japan is running a competition to paint iQ. We don’t speak Japanese, but after some trial and error we managed to clothe iQ in a photo we uploaded. Our photo […]
Photos of iQ in Paris
We’ve been sent these photos of iQ at the Paris Motor Show. In black, it’s a nice contrast to the white iQ displayed at the RCA. See more on Flickr.
RCA plays host to iQ
This is iQ outside the Royal College of Arts (RCA) in September, at the launch of a partnership with Toyota. The partnership runs through the creation’s January 2009 launch into next summer. […]
iQ in Paris
The Paris Motor Show – Mondial de l’Automobile – runs from 4 to 19 October. iQ is there. The iQ project’s chief engineer, Hiroki Nakajima, took the opportunity to explain his thinking […]