Year: 2011

Toyota’s Toyoda: Gas Is Great

While most Japanese auto execs touted the future of electric cars at the Tokyo Motor Show yesterday, Toyota president Akio Toyoda exclaimed he loves the smell of gasoline and hopes the choking, carcinogenic lung-destroying fumes of the internal combustion engine never become obsolete.

Toyoda also expressed disappointment in today’s generation, who don’t appreciate motor cars like he does. “Young people have little interest in cars as there are much more interesting things, and as an automobile maker, I find this quite frustrating,” he said.

H/T Tokyo By Bike

Midweek bike news roundup

Bike lane petition Monterey County for a road between Marina and Salinas. I’m personally ambivalent about a four inch vs six inch stripe, but the Farm Bureau’s official opposition to this project just seems petty to me. Might be noteworthy that California’s mandatory bike lane law applies if the stripe is six inches wide, whereas it does not for a four inch strip of paint.

More bike news below the fold.


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