TOKYO 2007 LIVE: Toyota RiN Concept


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The Toyota RiN, whatever that stands for, is the world’s biggest car company’s take on designing the car of choice for the health freak of the future. With a massive greenhouse, seats that keep your spine in its proper position, an oxygen-level conditioner and humidifier, plus a meter that gauges your mood through the steering wheel and then displays a colour based on your psychological state, Toyota thinks it can make better, happier motorists, that are more aware of nature and the society that infuses it.

Focusing on “increased comfort” and “serene, healthy living” features include leaf-shaped foot pedals and sliding doors with glass that wraps underneath the floor providing a view of the road below. Plus, you can motor along (supposedly) knowing that when your headlights are on, you won’t blind any pedestrians or oncoming motorists because the light is thoughtfully being distributed to avoid such stresses.

The design language is based on the deep-rooted and tall-growing Yakusugi tree (a variety of Japanese cypress) for its exterior and interior design to express both “harmony with nature” and “healthy mind and body”.

But seriously, if Toyota could implement a few of the less crazy ideas into future models then perhaps we may see a world without road rage and happy, smiling faces in every car and less occurrences of heart problems on the road.


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After dabbling for years in the IT industry, Paul Tan initially began this site as a general blog covering various topics of personal interest. With an increasing number of readers paying rapt attention to the motoring stories, one thing led to another and the rest, as they say, is history.

 

Comments

  • cetakbaju (Member) on Oct 26, 2007 at 11:51 pm

    futuristic!

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  • BMW fan (Member) on Oct 26, 2007 at 11:58 pm

    boxy cars with no future on the road…probably only on golf courses…Toyota and Honda are losing it! These cars can’t speed!

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  • mystvearn (Member) on Oct 27, 2007 at 1:18 am

    maybe toyota should design something that looks great as well. If for mass transport, then I don’t think thats the issure. For your own use, I think that design will cause more people to be annoyed rather than relaxed. LOL

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  • 90125 (Member) on Oct 27, 2007 at 2:04 am

    ahh..this is ideal for Greenpeace International…’environmental friendly’ vehical……peace everyone…

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  • BigFish (Member) on Oct 27, 2007 at 6:20 am

    No boot! means for short distant.

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  • neoracing87 (Member) on Oct 27, 2007 at 7:46 am

    wow… is a blender with wheels… a little bit too ambitious eh Toyota? well i guess they can afford it anyway..

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  • dr_blur (Member) on Oct 27, 2007 at 10:52 am

    its like driving in an XBox360
    hehehe…

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  • transformer (Member) on Oct 27, 2007 at 10:55 am

    no thanks! inspired by tupperware!

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  • w_lighter (Member) on Oct 27, 2007 at 10:58 am

    Im guessing the aerodynamic of this thing is down the toilet….

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  • MaverickNeo (Member) on Oct 27, 2007 at 11:32 am

    Looks like my lunchbox, on wheels!!

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  • e-nabilll (Member) on Oct 27, 2007 at 3:04 pm

    this got to be the most unreliastic,over the top,out of imagination,auto show ever made….its like aliens designing those craps for their own little world…wat the hell hapened to real cars made by real humans ??

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  • kei9 (Member) on Oct 27, 2007 at 4:10 pm

    this will surely cheer up us in the future..:D

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  • mitlanevo (Member) on Oct 27, 2007 at 5:00 pm

    is it comfortable with those seats?

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  • bpkid (Member) on Oct 27, 2007 at 5:49 pm

    It’s just A CONCEPT. Period.

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  • sabochii (Member) on Oct 27, 2007 at 7:37 pm

    hi cool concept……..but it think its not a very commercial idea.

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  • sabochii (Member) on Oct 27, 2007 at 7:38 pm

    cool cencept but doesn’t seem to get very commercialised

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  • ezralimm (Member) on Oct 27, 2007 at 9:17 pm

    My god, have car designers been smoking weed or something?

    I now have the idea that toyota’s designers are turtleneck wearing, guitar serenading, pot smoking hippies enjoying chai latte’s while working on their apple laptops at some colourful cafe with scented candles.

    Hippies!

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  • nmh (Member) on Oct 28, 2007 at 12:41 am

    I think they built this for environmentalist; just to shut their mouth up….coz toyota are building 2 supercars back there just for us@motorhead. Fair and square rite.

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  • chap_de_x (Member) on Oct 28, 2007 at 3:10 am

    look like an ice cream fridge.maybe in the future we must drive this car to work…ewww

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  • neoracing87 (Member) on Oct 28, 2007 at 3:01 pm

    so…which is the back and which is the front? it looks pretty much as if it can go both ways haha

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  • Xylan (Member) on Oct 28, 2007 at 5:54 pm

    will this kind of car will be available 4 Malaysian market? So futuristic maybe i can have this when i’m 30 ^^

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  • syanas (Member) on Oct 28, 2007 at 8:21 pm

    lets go to golf course, he2

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  • szw (Member) on Oct 28, 2007 at 8:26 pm

    something more down to earth pls…

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  • wildthingz (Member) on Oct 29, 2007 at 9:47 am

    another alien project hey our world been conquer by an alien helppppp

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  • kington (Member) on Oct 29, 2007 at 1:00 pm

    More and more companies are finally realising the fact that global warming is already at a matured stage and there’s no stopping it unless we whut down all factories and run no cars on the road, which is impossible.

    So here we have something that’s supposed to take care of us, well at least breathing wise to ensure that we can survive.

    Still, some say there will be no future for our grandkids, while some insist that Planet Earth will survive another few good decades. So if it happens, then we may see these cars in your nearest Honda, Toyota and Nissan show rooms.

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  • mzfnd (Member) on Oct 29, 2007 at 10:10 pm

    I remember drawing something like that back in kindergarten. Toyota must have found my sketches.

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  • PTAllTheBest (Member) on Oct 30, 2007 at 5:53 am

    looks like aquarium. sit in it and you will feels like a fish. and every ‘kam yu lou’ will always keep an eye on you

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  • msmar_453 (Member) on Oct 30, 2007 at 9:44 am

    haha..! look likes Xbox consule!

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  • clutch (Member) on Jan 08, 2009 at 11:43 pm

    you all should build one in the united states of amercan

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