Tokyo Auto Salon: 555TES Minute-S
January 12th, 2013 9:27 AM
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It’s been a lost in translation situation, but from what I could develop here at the Tokyo Auto Salon, the oddly shaped and oddly named 555TES Minute-S is a “three-wheel compact commuter” powered by a Yamaha 250-cc engine coupled to a Toyota Aqua hybrid drive. Here it is in motion:
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TTAC predicts similar success as other three-wheelers. Mt compact-commuter is pocket-size. It’s a SUICA card. Works on the subway.
The pink thing behind it is the official “Rice Rocket.” I kid you not. I know you won’t trust me, so here is proof.
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This makes at least as much sense as a Can-Am, three wheeler - maybe more. They need to dump the 250 and bump it up to the 600 from an R6 or a 1000CC from an R1, change the two back wheels to one of those huge meats they put on choppers these days (to keep it a "motorcycle") and add a slide back canopy like a fighter so it can be run in the rain. That thing looks like it would be a total blast.
Nice idea, but better aero and less 80's syntho-rock would help its case. Wonder what it gets on the Japanese 10-15... infinity?