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Toyota, the Japanese automaker once considered reliable and bland, is ...

The Toyko Motor Show is now the Japan Mobility Show, but the Japanese carmakers were out in force with concept cars.

Daihatsu introduced a bigger Copen with rear-wheel drive at the Japan Mobility Show. According to the development team, the idea is to export the sports car.

The existing ND-series MX-5 will play host to more special-edition variants as the swansong for fully petrol-powered sports car from Mazda. Speaking to CarsGuide at the 2023 Japan Mobility Show, Mazda MX-5 Program Manager Shigeki Saito said the fourth-generation MX-5 still has more to give, despite being nearly 10-years old.“We like to do whatever we can, utilising the ND, because we think that the ND has a very high potential, therefore we’d like to do everything – whatever we can do,” he said.

Mazda believes it can build the new-generation electrified MX-5 with a weight of less than 1000kg to keep the ethos of the sporty model alive in the EV era. Speaking to CarsGuide at the 2023 Japan Mobility Show, Mazda MX-5 Program Manager Shigeki Saito, revealed the current goal for the NE-series drop top is to keep it below one tonne in a roundabout way.