Toyota Mirai Concept First Look 2021 Car Auto Expo 2021
if you look up the term Mariah actually means future in
Japanese and today I'm in Greensboro
North Carolina where Toyota has just unveiled the very future of their electrified lineup this is then that's what I said Toyota Mirai let's take a first look
so if you guys are unfamiliar with the Mirai name this is Toyota's flagship ofthere
electrified line up it's a hydrogen
fuel cell-powered car I actually had the opportunity to drive this the thing today here in GreensboroNorth
Carolina for Toyota's program
called evolution and the previous generation Mirai let's just say it wasn't very it
wasn't a very attractive car, in fact, I actually thought it was one of the ugliest
looking cars that Toyota showed back
about five years ago when they took the wraps off as you can see this new
generation shares nothing
in common
with the previous model year which is a very good thing it was just very much one of the most polarizing designs this thing looks like it could easily
wear a Lexus badge from any angle of this car but let's first start with the front fascia of this car now as you can see obviously it's got full-LED headlights
as standard the grill itself obviously you have that gigantic gaping girl the Toyotas are known for but it really works on this car it really looks like
you could just replace the Toyotaemblem with a Lexus badge in fact when I asked Toyota why don't you just call this a
Lexus, I got a couple of answers that
were like we're not exactly sure I think it's mostly just having to do with the infrastructure but of course, Toyota doesn't
have the full powertrain specs on this thing under the hood obvious you're gonna have a fuel cell fuel stack system that's gonna produce the
electricity
it's gonna combine with hydrogen and oxygen to boost electricity and the water vapor Toyota says you're gonna get about better efficiency versus the previous generation of the previous generation offered about miles of range so doing some simple math
can calculate this thing will offer roughly
about a little over miles in terms of
rains now this constant model that I'm
showing you actually have -inch wheels they've wrapped in series tires these wheels are gorgeous again I'm getting very much a Lexus vibe when
I see that when I look at this car it's one of the most attractive looking fuel cell cars you can get which is a good thing because most of the cars that you
get on the market right now are really really frumpy looking now part of the reason why this car is so attractive because
this is now riding on a rear-wheel
drive architecture it actually is a rear-drive architecture that they've had in the lineup for awhile I
had it I heard a couple of under-the-table
comments about this being kind of like a rear-drive eyelash platform but Toyota didn't really want to confirm that as you can see from this angle
it has very nice proportions it looks low and wide and Toyota says they stretch the overall length by about three inches versus the previous
generation and the wheelbase has been stretched by five inches so obviously it's lower it's
widersleeker it's a very
good thing because I think the old one
just looked a little bit too narrow now looking at the back of this thing you can see the design also is
equally nice I see a lot of Audi an in here especially with the taillights had
that kind of connect you have these
little LED taillights obviously you've got the Mirai in the fuel cell badging this is a really attractive carpet it looks like it's gonna be a
more of a traditional sedan I was hoping this thing would be a sport back but from the way this concept looks
looks like it's gonna be more of an actual
sedan profile now this particular one here doesn't actually have an interior but Toyota did show us actual pictures of the interior which it's got a new
twelve points three-inch display it's got a digital display in the
instrument panel and it looks again exactly like a Lexus model so when this thing
goes on sale in late imagine a lot
of people are gonna be interested in purchasing that's purchasing this car even though it's not available in all states because it is a fuel cell car I think what suede has done here is they've finely designed a fuel
cell car that actually is beautiful and people are gonna want it not just because it's a fuel cell car but because it's actually very beautiful
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