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Tokyo Motor Show split between fast and green

Honda CR-Z hybrid concept.

Chiba, Japan - The Tokyo Motor Show, which opened to the public in this suburban city on Saturday and runs through Nov. 11, is a showcase of the automobile industry’s split personality, according to the New York Times.

The industry indeed seems increasingly to be of two minds, and the split between them is becoming more like a fracture.

On the one hand, the Tokyo show offers the requisite number of socially responsible hybrid concept cars, alternative-fuel propulsion systems and traffic-congestion-relieving technologies.

On the other, there is a bigger collection of the newest engine-revving, pollutant-belching, tire-smoking supercars. Can this house, so divided, continue to stand?

For the time being, the NYT writes, the supercars seem to be taking the fast lane to dealer showrooms.

Posted by Peter C. T. Elsworth  at 10:09 AM to Auto industry , Shows | Permalink

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