Toyota to Host Classic Car Festival

Toyota  Motor Corporation announced that they will host a Classic Car Festival at their Toyota Automobile Museum, in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, on Saturday, November 28. The festival will be the third hosted by the Museum, and is aimed at promoting and developing Japan's automobile culture and encouraging interaction among car fans.

To mark its 20th anniversary, the Toyota Automobile Museum will display prized classic cars from its collection under the theme: "The 100-hundred-year History of Automobiles and Personal Mobility Beyond 100 Years".

To illustrate the past and future of personal mobility, seven classic cars from the Toyota Automobile Museum will be driven side-by-side with vehicles such as the i-REAL, a vehicle that  has been described as a "wheel chair on steroids".

We wonder which classic cars Toyota will use from the museum that might best demonstrate the major advances their futuristic i-REAL has made.  Could it be Leonardo da Vinci's Self-Propelled Cart or maybe the Baker Electric.

Either way, we think the classic would still be our choice to get around in.  Check out Top Gear's video of the i-REAL and see if you would agree.