Yamaha and Gordon Murray have said that a sportscar 'body style' is possible on the MOTIV.e platform.
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Posted Dec 4th 2013 8:00AM

How Yamaha plans to make a sport scar with the Gordon Murray-designed MOTIV.e platform escapes us, but the company has confirmed that it's exploring such a vehicle, Autocar reports. But since there's a lot we don't know about the MOTIV.e (pictured above), and we've yet to fully grasp Murray's innovative iStream assembly process, we'll give the McLaren F1 creator and Yamaha the benefit of the doubt on this one.
At the Tokyo Motor Show, Autocar obtained pictures of numerous body styles (head over there to see them) that could be based on the MOTIVE.e platform from a video loop at Yamaha's manufacturer stand. Masato Suzuki, Yamaha's general manager of innovation, reportedly said that the MOTIV.e platform could be made to accept different body styles. Gordon Murray went a bit further and stated that, in theory, all of the body styles shown in the video loop are possible.
"The manufacturing system allows for a longer vehicle, a wider vehicle and many other modifications, without significant additional costs," Suzuki reportedly said. "The first step is to consider if the reaction is positive enough to put the car into production, but it is my hope and goal that it will be."
News Source: Autocar
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なんだか、EVスターからS660に特化させられた(?)HONDAのスタッフは複雑な気持ちかも・・・
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過去のYAMAHA独自の試み。

YAMAHA OU68
軽より小型な4人乗り乗用車。FRPプラットフォーム/ボデイ、リア単気筒エンジン・プロトタイプで、実走、衝突実験までいった
(山口京一さんのブログを参照させて頂きました)
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遥か昔に先進的な試みをしていたのですね。これをマーレイは見せられたのかな
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OU68を開発した堀内浩太郎さんは、本来ボートデザイナーで、そちらの方でも数々の先進的なボートを手がけています。
水中翼船というより水上を完全に飛んでいる姿に驚かされます。これが50年前の作品ですからね。日本グランプリでポルシェ904やカレラ6の襲来に驚かされていた時代に、日本人自身がこれだけのものを作り上げていたのですから。

Hydrofoil  Kotaro Horiuchi

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