Today Tomorrow - a blog from Toyota GB

iQ is on sale in Japan, and we’ve seen it in India, Paris and Italy (twice).
The project has been seen in the UK, but only at the London Design Festival.
But in the run up to iQ’s launch, Toyota is taking it around the country. The exclusive video below shows iQ in Manchester.

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There’s a particularly interesting post over on Wired’s Autopia.
It explains the popularity of small cars in Japan, where the streets are crowded and fuel isn’t cheap.
Kei cars are one particular class of small car in Japan. They came about after the Second World War, when the Japanese government wanted to give the country’s car industry [...]

Plenty of sites seem to have picked up on iQ’s triumph in Car of the Year Japan.
There’s renewed interest from green writers, with thegreencarwebsite.co.uk eagerly awaiting iQ’s 6 January UK launch.
Sadly, the 2009 launch rules iQ out for European Car of the Year 2008, but there’s always next year.
Meanwhile, Yes Insurance wonders if iQ will [...]

Hot on the heals of scooping the Grand Award in Japan’s Good Design Awards, iQ has won again.
This time it’s Car of the Year Japan 2008-2009, an award decided mostly by the country’s motoring journalists.
iQ fended off opposition from the other major Japanese car makers to win the overall trophy.
Here’s the footage of the awards [...]

After its recent debut at the Paris Motor Show, iQ visits another fashion capital this week for its European press launch.

The picture above, snapped by Flickr user Paulo Motta, shows a fleet of iQs receiving some loving attention before being turned over to the waiting motoring press.
We’ll be keeping tabs on what they write, as [...]

Continuing our occasional posts on design in its wider sense, we’ve been looking at building interiors.
Here are a few favourite pictures - all from America, which had quite a week.

Interior of the Corning Tower, Empire State Plaza, New York. IMAGE by Flickr user iessi

Interior of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum, New York. IMAGE by Flickr [...]