Automakers play up cute cars at Tokyo Motor Show

Automakers play up cute cars at Tokyo Motor Show

CHIBA, Japan - Nissan Motor Co. exhibits the PIVO 2 (top), a successor to its bubble-shaped electric concept with a 360-rotating cabin, and Honda Motor Co. exhibits its box-shaped PUYO (bottom) compact fuel-cell concept at the Tokyo Motor Show, which opened with a press preview on Oct. 24 at the Makuhari Messe convention center on the outskirts of Tokyo. The motor show will run through Nov. 11. (Kyodo)

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