Friday 21st October 2005

The 39th Tokyo Motor Show opened its doors. The theme for the show was “‘Driving Tomorrow! from Tokyo”. It expressed the Tokyo Motor Show’s commitment to being the festive place where people could experience the world’s most advanced technologies and designs, while at the same time serving as a source of up-to-the-minute information on interactions between the automobile and motorised society. The show featured large numbers of World Premieres, exhibits on advanced environment and safety technologies, a retrospective looking back on its 50 year history, and a wide variety of “audience-participation, hands-on” events designed to appeal to female visitors and families. All these elements made this year’s show an outstanding success. The show also helped large numbers of visitors to see advanced environment and safety technologies for themselves, reaffirming the fun and excitement of automobiles and providing new dreams for the future. It was in every sense worthy of its position as a “landmark show,” marking the first step into the next 50 years of the Tokyo Motor Show.