Concept Cars

[Eclipse_dude]

Concepts cars you see at motorshows & car magazines, what happens to them afterwards say after few yrs, 3 yrs, 10yrs etc?

concept cars like the Honda SSM, basis for the S2000(i think), Toyota Funtime, basis for the Yaris & Mazda RX-01 & that Lexus cant remember the name that was in the film minority reports along with lot of other cars....

these cars are one offs and lot of them are basis of production cars on sale today. do they end up in a musuem or something or someone end up buying it as a collectors item. i always wonder.

[Monster-Mat]

i know the original IS430 built by TTE (Silver one seen at the Essen Motorshow 2001) was reverted back to an IS200

[Stu]

Why do that?

Stu

[Monster-Mat]

COS THEY CAN..............They then went onto build the Black one, which was and is a fully working vehicle, wheras the silver was just a mock up..........a concept

[Bazza]

so where and what does the is430 do now ,

does someone get to drive it home or for the weekend

or is it just the company runabout :o

[MrADeveci]

I'd love to have a 4.3L engine in my IS !! ...... that thing would shift !!

[Monster-Mat]

The black IS430 is currently in Bahrain, before it comes back, it is having a full respray and tidy up....

when back at TTE the car lives in the workshop.....under a red car cover