Mazda suitcase car, a portable three-wheeled vehicle that fits in the luggage
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#2See also perhaps (motorcycle channel) FortNine video/skit about Honda's equivalent (the skit ends and review ends at 9m10s):
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#3O sweet times when it was imaginable to have a combustion engine weighing 32 kg in your check-in luggage.
I sincerely wonder if this wasn't hazmat back then?
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#4'car' is a bit of a stretch, but it's a cool compact go-kart.
Is the ad character inspired by, or the inspiration for, Mr Bean?
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#5There needs to be a category of "super" Chindōgu (珍道具) that fail the first rule by being possibly useful despite being impossibly impractical. Maybe 超良い奇妙な道具.
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#6The first time after getting my driving license and having to find parking in the city, I was so jealous of George Jetson whose car collapses into a briefcase when he gets to work. Glad to see TV converging to reality.
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#7Reminds me of Mike Jittlov's vehicle in Wizard of Speed and Time (1988)
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#8Interesting how Japanese companies were pursuing these compact mobility solutions. One other example is Honda made two of them:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Motocompo in 1980s and
- https://motocompacto.honda.com just a few years ago. This one is electric.
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#9This is a go cart.
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#10'car' is a bit of a stretch, but it's a cool compact go-kart. Is the ad character inspired by, or the inspiration for, Mr Bean?
I think it was a fun PR joke that was cool and funny itself and showed they didn't take themselves too seriously.
PS: What I miss from growing up - being awoken about 7:35 am to my next door neighbor's Solar Gold LS Wankel rev shifting from 1st->2nd as he commuted to Spectra-Physics.