Toyota IQ

Folks visiting Ginza may want to pop round to the Sony building as they sometimes have performances like this one. This time round its a car stuck to the side of the building with performers hanging from a rope. Notice how there's no safety mat down below either.
I'd love to go skydiving again but not sure about trying something like this or bungee jumping either - anybody tried either?
Nearly forgot to mention that this promotion is part of Toyota's new iQ mini car - click on the main flash on that page for some cool music.
The low end model costs 1,400,000 yen. Cars are relatively cheap over here. I hear horror stories of how expensive the cost of cars and maintenance can be in other countries.
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If you want to bungee go all out and jump off Macau Tower, “The Highest Bungee Jump from a Building” according to the Guinness World Records. Macau is only an hour ferry ride away from Hong Kong. That's a crazy performance by the way!
College Student
I didn't jump off the macau tower but i walked around the outside ring. It was during the summer of 07 and it was hot that day. A guide walked with me and he was asking me to do some poses and taking pictures of me.
College Student
Took me about an hour to get from Hong Kong to Macau. Didn't see the bungie jump but I wouldn't have dont it anyway lol ^_^
CyberStudent
That would be so much fun. Well except the part of being up so high. And performing infront of all house people. And... On another thought, maybe not. hehe
Interesting music though.
C. Engineering Student
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I have bungeed jump before, quite the experience.
Student/Part-timer
Oh man, that just makes me want to move to Japan even more, I'm so envious. The performance was nice and amusing, but the performers really don't look like they were particularly having a blast. Anyways, cars in the US range between average and dead expensive prices, and with the current economy, no one's even going to think about buying a car, no matter how cheap.
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Wow, I'd love to see that in person. Very effective marketing strategy. :)/
Student
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How mini is it? Like、no fat people are allowed? xd
Ecchi Otaku
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Zugoi! Very interesting performance. Its unique to use the vertical wall like that to promote a new car. Cars in the US are between average and expensive. But like Kyle said, with the current economy no one is going to buy a new car.
I've never tried bungee jumping so I wont be able to give much advise on that. It would seem like fun but dangerous at the same time.
Student
Ah, I remember this building. Last time I was in Tokyo (over two years ago), there was a robot stuck to the building. Also Toyota branding, if I believe. Not sure what the robot had to do with the object being sold, though...
Worker
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Prices are pretty variable in Canada, but manufacturers still have a habit of giving us the cruddier models or fewer options than the States. In the fifties, it was even worse- they'd do things like sending shoddier upholstry, or less QC'd autos.
Honda is better for this sort of thing, fortunately. Toyota is pretty good, but they leave out some nice options that the US get.
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Woah, that's so cool... Since they're wearing safety lines, I don;t think a safety mat is needed...
Student
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thats pretty intriguing, i like the site, the music is pretty..uh how should I say this, cloppy. (classy+poppy)
Gundam
Malaysia has the most expensive price on car in the
South East Asia..u noe why?Only Malaysia have own country-made car...local car P****a
Wan buy Toyota Vios here RM 70k-90k..
Go Singapore buy a Vios RM40k-60k..FTW?!
大学生
Cars that expensive in Malaysia???
Thought would be more expensive over here since we have so much less roads than yall.
I know Honda Jazz, Kia Picanto, Nissan March goes round the SGD 40,000 - 60,000 range.
Cars in Japan are cheap but the upkeep and parking is damn expensive right?
Your local Otaku Cashier.
I would love to see more companies do this. New York City is a great place to do something like this.
College Freshmen
Part of me wants to bungee jump and sky dive, but another part of me is scared that I'll be the one in a million person who has some mistake with the line/parachute. Cars around here are probably around 20K (USD) or more.
Student
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Anyone know what the music is called? Sounds Vienna-like and makes me want to clap ^o^
Student
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Btw cars here are dirt cheap.. mine was about 2.5k and they give away a car at every high school each year too :']
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LOL nice.
Cars range from average price to dead expensive here in Brazil.
So, some people will buy cars and pay it like in 3 years or more.
And just about every city has these major used automobile fairs...
As for skydiving and bungee jumping... skydiving yes, bungee nope.
We did something similar to bungee jumping though... it's called pendulum, and it's something we did with rappeling equipment.
Maybe someday I'll make a post on those.
It's been more than 6 years I don't do anything like that anymore though... dunno if my current shape would allow me to go back to those.
But I do miss, though they are very expensive sports.
I made 13 jumps total... and practiced rappeling almost every weekend for almost 2 years. Good ol' times.
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Nothing is cheap here in Singapore, buying a standard family car here is about the same price as buying a small appartment.....not forgetting there is still the road tax and the petrol to pay.
Jalop-er
As well as the piece of paper which puts the vehicle on the road - that doesn't come cheap either
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First time ever! YouTube has better quality than a photo.
No offence, just found it funny :)
Grocery Store Clerk
Ford, GM, and Cryster should learn to be more like Toyata. They are going to be #1 in no time.
Plus Demning an American business consult was rejected in America but when he went to Japan he helped an already prospering business sky-rocket.
Student
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Cars here in Singapore are I think the most expensive in the world (for standard cars), due to Import Tax, Goods and Services Tax, Quota Tax, cost of 'Certificate of Entitlement' that you need to bid in order to be able to drive on the roads (these can reach up to tens of thousands of dollars), as well as insurance, road taxes, etc. Dead expensive.
Student
Same here, cars here are actually average but if we start adding up all the taxes it just makes a fortune.
Student
Those performers are quit amazing!
Somehow, I thought the performers were going to drive the car away.
student
woahh that's awesome..! also scary
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I'd love to sky dive Danny whats it like? Perhaps a news article about somewhere?
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I'd love to sky dive but, all I've done is abseiling. Bungee jumping is far to scary for me though, the thought of being suspended by your ankles freaks me out O_O;;;
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They're really out of sync, and the music got my nerves really quickly. Interesting though, and adequate since it wasn't a special occasion.
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I have never been skydiving or bungee jumping. Too scared. I can barely stand going up the mast of my ship let alone jumping off a plane or dancing on the side of a skyscraper looking down.
As far as cars. I always get the base model with no bells and whistles(usually Corolla or Civic). Taking off the add ons (even automatic locks) saves a ton of money. My Corolla cost about $15,000 US new.
Student
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That advertisement surely would get anyone's attention, but it was sort of hard to tell what they were promoting. They never actually talked or did anything with the car.
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Gah. When I first saw the title of the post I thought it was a study on the average Toyota employee's/owner's IQ :p
Student, part-time Haruhi wannabe (that bit about godhood etc)
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And yeah, cars are expensive over here... I think there's a 100% tax (supposedly to protect local car manufacturers). Plus maintenance is insane since almost all mechanics here are slimy cheats. Unless you go directly to the car producers maintenance service, if they have one... which is still expensive anyway, and sadly, their people (the little ones at least) are not entirely trustworthy either.
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Wow, too cool performance, I love it when you see strange public displays and stuff like that. I consider cars here to be somewhere between average and expensive.
Programmer
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My new Chevrolet Corsa Premium Model is the same price >D. While travelling in Tokyo I talked to people of a Toyota IQ Showroom.
They said that there are cheap cars that are 0.6 to 1.2 liters in Japan, but it's really fast. But even so, the size of this car is half of mine for the same price. And, I heard that maintaning a car in Japan is TOO MUCH expensive.
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You skydived Mr Danny?! Awesome! I wanna skydive too XD
It is sad that I haven't skydived nor bungee-jumped before. I did try wall-climbing x_x
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That's so cool.
I think my friend has skydived before. Due to those cartoons of having backpacks of camp supplies instead of parachutes, I now have the fear of skydiving.
Anyway, cars are really expensive here because they are imported from different countries. We don't have our own manufacturers of cars so we have to pay ridiculous prices. Am not really sure what's a cheap car though...
Jalop-er
The Toyota IQ is going to compete against the Smart Fortwo
Student
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Awesome display on doing it sideways on buildings, that's even rare.
Space Pirate
There were some sort of performance like this on a mountain not to far from where I live, didn't get to see it though.
Never skydived or bungee jumped before, but skydiving is on my to-do list.
Bungee jumping, I'd love to try this to, but skydiving takes priority :)
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cars are priced from expensive to dead expensive here. only the rich can afford to get a car here. add to that road tax, insurance, price of spare parts, petrol costs, and maintenance of the car every month is more than a person with an average salary can afford.
afraid of heights, so i hardly try such daredevil acts like skydiving or bungee jumping.
College Student
Where I live the cars are really expensive, and to run aswell. Petrol prices are really high although they have dropped back to below £1 a litre recently (was £1.18) and insurance is ridiculous! for new learners insurance and tax costs so much not even including lessons, tests and the car itself. Any new driver in the UK around 17-18 will know what I mean ¬_¬
Ninja / Engineer / Sensei / 魔法少女 (What!?! I can't be, I'm a guy...)
Cars are too expensive in the states. With all the insurance and such too, it doesn't get any better.
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OMG THAT SO COOL!!!
here the cars arent to expensive, not cheap, byut not expencive, y have to work hard for get one xD, but always are ways to pay it in cuotes ore something what are cheap, but you have to pay it for a looong time xD
MS pilot
very cool marketing strategy...we never see this in canada -__-
I paint F/A-18C's
Cars may be cheap in Japan, but there is a lot more insurance type things to spend money on every year or two. Makes it less realistac for a used, cheapo car (something like $2000 you spend that much again in couple years just on JCI, regular ins, weight tex, lots more toll roads, and even pay to scrap it). But it was nice being American and on base. Easy to get a used Skyline, very cheap. Hell on base, your fellow Americans gave away cars all the time, cheaper than getting rid of it.
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Interesting way to advertise.
Performance on an advert.
Cool
Destroyer of the Waps
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Cars at a dealership are usually the expensive ones (if they're cheap, then it's probably). I'm pretty sure that all Americans on here can agree that car salesman are not trust worthy.
Best to buy a used car from the newspaper. My Dad got a BMW 1989 beamer for about $2500. With a little tune-ups, which he did myself, it ran just like it came out of the factory. Too bad some idiot was driving on the wrong side of the road and completely destroyed half of the car. >.> (he was still alive after that).
Destroyer of the Waps
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"if they're cheap, then it's probably a piece of junk" is what I meant to say.
Student
I've done bungee jumping, 165 meters of an arch dam in Austria, was a blast and I recommend it for everyone :) I will jump again for sure, just have to wait for good chance again (some decent height and not just the usual 50 meters).
Would love to try skydiving too but I think bungee jumping is easier, there you dont have to remember to open parachute or anything :P
web surfer (no pay)
meh i only put dead expensive because in my area people drive BMW's and occasionally ferrari's and lambo's but one guy has an audi R8 that car is pure smex x)