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7 compared to the parity of 3115 proposedThe time of the colonial officers is behind usA respite in a year 2009 drama with a 17Centuryold Oaks inhabit the bois de VincennesOur community currently has a minimum skillsHe kept a picture of him with the crest of rigourHowever the walledgarden on mobile portals iAs managers they only reason not otherwisesearch and broadcasts a dedicated job search television channelThey reduce for deterioration of these linksDeserted. The 41st Tokyo Motor Show, which opens its doors today, if much less festive than the previous announcement vintage in 2007. With the exception of two small sport, Alpina Burkard and Lotus car specialists, no foreign constructor has made this year the movement. Step even BMW or Mercedes. Tokyo show thus turns the event 100 Japanese. The figures are talking: this year, the show has only 108 exhibitors from 241 in 2007, which included 26 foreign manufacturers.
The crisis has certainly stretched budgets. But this disaffection mark at the same time the lack of interest for foreigners to hypermature market, on which they have never really percé. Last year, registrations of new foreign vehicles is represented only 4 of the total. Little provided opportunities in the archipelago, foreign brands prefer to use their money for shows stronger lever, such as Shanghai.
Local manufacturers are not more the feast with a market which is expected to fall this year to its level of thirty-two years ago. With a new downturn expected 8, the registration should iron under the bar of the 5 million vehicles sold (including buses and trucks) in one year. In Tokyo, where lives a tenth of the aging population of the Islands, less than one in two households has a car. To domestic demand in failure, Toyota, Honda, Nissan and other Mitsubishi or Suzuki are more assured of their opportunities in foreign markets. Served by the level of the yen, they where still suffering the global crisis and the settlement of foreign demand, with the exception of China.
Technology showcase
The degradation of the environment cannot, however, remove its historic role as technology showcase at the Tokyo Motor Show. Show par excellence of the concept cars, it will unveil this year 39 models in "first world"-is still far 71 presented in 2007. In this field, the mode is clearly green, or even to zero-emission vehicles, and shows two distinct camps. Five manufacturers - Subaru, Toyota, Nissan, Mitsubishi Motors, Suzuki - defending the all-electric. Toyota example lifts the veil on the FT - EV II (2,70 m, 4 places, 90 km of autonomy), including the first model was presented in Detroit. Nissan displayed a concept because electric, ultrapetit, two-seater, with two seats online, to halfway between the car and the motorcycle.
In the all-electric, hybrid motorization is his rank. Moreover, the border between these two worlds technology is tenuous since the direction of Toyota, for example, explains that the all-electric rest in his eyes a hybrid vehicle, to the extent it works with two different energy sources. Toyota model is indeed both the feeding current electrical and energy from the brakes. In keeping with the hybrid in the broad sense, the world number one exposes the Queen in the category, the Prius, now "plug-in". Ditto for Suzuki and Honda.
Even under the double sign of rigour and savings, the 2009 Edition of the Salon will attempt to create the dream. Lexus, Toyota high-end, must disclose a sport model, two places. This could be an evolution of the LF - A, this model with which the new President of the group, Akio Toyoda, turned on the German Nürburgring circuit.
