2023 Tokyo motor show preview

The Tokyo centrifugal amusement has returned, rebranded as the Japan mobility amusement to reflect the profound changes in the motoring industry.

We expect to spot well-known icons switching from ICE to EV, with new-age electric cars going large on production sustainability and a steadfast dose of electrical scooters and tricycles to punctuate what volition go a precise antithetic lawsuit to the 1 we’re utilized to.

Taking spot from 25 October to 5 November astatine the Tokyo Big Sight accumulation centre, the fashionable lawsuit volition big to a multitude of unveilings, from a imaginable electric Honda NSX concept to the caller Suzuki Swift and what is believed to beryllium a archetypal look astatine the next Mazda MX-5.

Read connected for a elaborate look astatine our amusement preview, with each the astir important reveals you request to cognize about.

Honda CI-MEV

A pint-sized two-seater built for those who unrecorded successful municipality areas wherever nationalist transport is scarce and are incapable to locomotion agelong distances. Expected to beryllium afloat autonomous, it combines “co-operative intelligence” with sustainability, the second of which done the usage of aggregate accumulation techniques. For example, it volition usage acrylic resin alternatively of overgarment truthful that it tin beryllium recycled and reused. It volition apt beryllium driven utilizing artifical quality (AI) and beryllium powered by swappable batteries.

Honda Speciality Sports Concept

Among a postulation of electrical concepts to beryllium revealed by Honda at Tokyo volition beryllium a imaginable electrical successor to the NSX supercar. Named the Specialty Sports Concept, the show EV was previewed arsenic an ‘electric imaginativeness plan study’ astatine Monterey Car Week earlier this year.

Said by Honda to “enable the operator to acquisition the axenic joyousness of driving”, it's expected to beryllium developed with a beardown accent connected carbon-neutrality without sacrificing engaging driving dynamics arsenic Honda phases retired internal-combustion cars.

Honda to unveil 3 concepts including electrical sports cars

Honda Sustaina C

This Honda E-sized electrical supermini has been developed to showcase the Japanese firm’s sustainability goals. It's made wholly from a recyclable acrylic resin to beforehand the conception of ‘resource circulation’.

Seen arsenic the small member to the E, its plan volition apt beryllium an improvement with cleanable shutlines and wind-cheating assemblage panels.

Lexus EV Concept

This extremist electrical crowning glory to the Lexus scope volition beryllium afloat unveiled successful 2026, pioneering a bold caller attack to design, operation and powertrain technology. It volition beryllium previewed by a conception astatine Tokyo and promises to correspond an all-out gyration successful the mode the Japanese steadfast engineers its cars. It's acceptable to beryllium the archetypal of a caller household of EVs that volition yet beryllium nonstop rivals to those from BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Audi.

Radical caller Lexus conception to preview long-range EV for 2026

Electric Mazda MX-5

First reported by Autocar past year, this sleek two-seat sports coupé is thought to provide an aboriginal look astatine what the next MX-5 volition look like. It's a hardtop with Lamborghini-style scissor doors, abstraction for some a combustion motor and battery and an wide illustration akin to that of the existent car. It arrived arsenic Mazda announced a near-£9bn spending program to accelerate its electrification drive.

Mazda acceptable to preview electrical MX-5 with extremist concept

Nissan Hyper Adventure concept

Majoring connected vehicle-to-everything technology, this electrical 4x4 has a high-capacity artillery to alteration it to proviso powerfulness to immoderate outer device, from a kettle to an electric jetski or adjacent the nationalist grid. When request is high, it could let for the merchantability of energy successful the car’s artillery backmost to the grid, thereby expanding the reliability of vigor infrastructure. Elsewhere, you volition find Nissan’s e-4orce four-wheel-drive strategy for all-weather traction.

It volition beryllium displayed digitally connected Nissan’s basal alongside the Hyper Urban concept and 2 different models that are yet to beryllium revealed.

Nissan reveals rugged electrical off-roader conception for Tokyo

Nissan Hyper Tourer concept

Previewing a aboriginal high-tech luxury minivan to rival the Volvo EM90, the Hyper Tourer is an ultra-luxury radical carrier featuring fully autonomous capability, high-density solid-state batteries, vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology and a beardown absorption connected aerodynamics. 

Inside, its taxable of luxury is punctuated by front seats that swivel 360deg, a level made retired of LEDs, virtual world headsets for the rear passengers, and the usage of AI to show the assorted aspects of the occupant's health, specified arsenic their bosom rate.

Nissan Hyper Tourer conception is ultra-luxury Volvo EM90 rival

Subaru Sport Mobility concept

Heading up Subaru's basal is simply a concept electric sports car designed to preview what the company's cars volition look similar arsenic it heads towards electrification. It's designed to be a car that will go "anywhere, anytime" and that you should beryllium capable to "drive astatine will" nary substance wherever you find yoursef connected the road. Few details person been fixed away, but it appears to person taken immoderate plan inspiration from the SVX, Subaru's 1990s sports coupé.

Suzuki EWX

This Nissan Cube-esque conception is a futuristic EV designed to marque the urban driver's beingness arsenic casual arsenic possible. It's described by Suzuki arsenic "a crossover of amusive and practicality".

Clean shutlines and a comparatively simple, featureless assemblage assistance it execute a scope of 142 miles, portion connected the inside, it has been designed "to marque radical consciousness astatine home". 

Tehnical details aren't yet known, but it could usage a smaller mentation of the 60kWh artillery utilized successful the similar-sized EVX.

Suzuki eVX

Suzuki’s archetypal EV volition beryllium an S-Cross-sized crossover that aims to “carry guardant the brand’s 4x4 legacy”. Previewed by a conception shown astatine Auto Expo 2023 successful Delhi, India, it featured a 60kWh battery, allowing it to thrust 550km (342 miles) betwixt charges.

Suzuki is aiming for a budget-friendly positioning for the eVX, likely astir £30,000, meaning a single-motor, two-wheel-drive powertrain is expected to diagnostic successful the bulk of variants. A planetary motorboat is scheduled for 2025.

New Suzuki eVX conception previews 342-mile electrical crossover

2024 Suzuki Swift

The adjacent procreation of Swift is being developed with a peculiar absorption connected engaging dynamics and charismatic performance, with the steadfast saying the Dacia Sandero rival has been conceived with "drive and feel" successful mind.

The operation of the supermini is besides said to enactment overmuch much of an accent connected sustainability.

We person lone seen 1 teaser representation of the car truthful far, but much accusation is expected earlier its planetary motorboat successful 2024. 

First look: caller Suzuki Swift majors connected ratio and engagement

Toyota FT-Se concept

Expected to beryllium unveiled arsenic Toyota GR's archetypal electrical sports car, the FT-Se shares its underpinnings with the FT-3e SUV and appears to beryllium a improvement of the MR2 conception revealed successful late-2021.

Each car is expected to draw power from Toyota's caller 'Performance' lithium ion artillery battalion – acceptable to get successful accumulation cars successful 2026 – which is claimed to summation scope to astir 497 miles and chopped costs by up to 40%.

Inside, it is designed to beryllium be arsenic operator focused arsenic its thrust and handling, with 2 smartphone-style show screens flanking a constrictive yoke steering wheel.

Toyota to amusement archetypal electrical GR sports car adjacent week

Toyota FT-3e concept

Toyota's 2nd electrical SUV paves the mode for a extremist electrical 4x4 touted to present a caller epoch for the marque wherever it volition “go beyond providing carnal proscription tools". Arriving alongside the FT-Se sports car, it volition beryllium afloat unveiled astatine the Tokyo centrifugal amusement and preview a sharply styled five-seat 4x4 with a plan connection unsocial to the brand's EVs. 

It has been designed with the assistance of AI and is said to beryllium "as elemental arsenic possible", with clean, aero-optimised lines and a salient loop enactment successful the aforesaid vein arsenic the Land Rover Defender.

According to the company, the conveyance has been designed arsenic a "lifestyle parter" to marque the driver's beingness arsenic "stress-free" arsenic possible, allowing them to accommodate the thrust prime to their penchant and find retired accusation astir their section country via the infotainment surface to marque it a "one-of-a-kind cherished vehicle".

Toyota FT-3e conception teased arsenic brand’s extremist 2nd electrical SUV