I’d visited the 30th Bangkok International Motor Show!

Several days ago I looked for a picture of Yamaha Mio Amore for a logo of Motosai.com. I had open yamaha-motor.co.th and noticed a big banner of 30th Bangkok International Motor Show. Googled for details in English – gotcha, I still can visit it! So, I visited and enjoyed it. In next several posts I’ll descibe my impressions of the motorshow. Here I’ll tell you about main trends which I noticed on the show.

Electromania everywhere

The theme of the 30th Motor Show is “Green life on Wheels”. As said on the motor show website:

Hence, the innovation of vehicle development should concern on not only new technology but also energy saving and environment.

One, an usual way to follow green way – to use electric power. So, like famous Tesla Motors, many cars and motorcycles manufacturers try to present electric cars and bikes to the market. But today, when industry just make first timid steps, their vehicles look pathetic: they cost more then traditional vehicles and have worse parameters. For example, Gemcar presented many kinds of electric cars, they even presented Gravitix – an electric inflatable boat for family fun. That boat cost about $1,000, but it’s just kind of an air bed with an electric motor! It can accelerate up to 8.5 km/h only! It’s just a toy! If I need to choose some toy vehicle, I’ll better buy one Dedo and one Chop Chop, both for price of a stupid motored air bed! And each of bikes have speed up to 30-35 km/h. It’s amazing in compare to a boring 8.5 km/h of air bed.

Gravitix – XXI century air bed:

Several electric cars exposed by Gemcars – slow and expensive:

Ozoe electric scooter:

Dedo electric mini-scooter:

Chop chop electric mini-chopper:

Dedo and cho chop at the exposition:

Situation with hybrids is better: as you can know, there are many hybrids on our roads today, some of them were produced on factories, some are usual cars modified by enthusiasts. But hybrids still are not that popular in Thailand. At Bangkok Motor Show hybrids was exhibited apart of usual cars, on raised platforms, like something amazing, visitors could only remotedly take pictures of that cars.

Honda Insight – “Pls, don’t touch!”:

Some Toyota hybrid concept:

For me more interesting and amazing was company “K’s hydro-energy” which offered a kit for transofrmation of an usual car or motorbike to a gasoline-hydrogen hybrid. The kit for motorcycles looks like 1 liter chrome jar which connects to battery by wire and to engine by pipe. You just need to fill a jar with water, and it begins to produce hydrogen bubbles and enrich gasoline by that bubbles. Gotcha – you save 40% of gasoline using usual water ! Kit for motorbikes cost about 5,000 ฿ (about $140) and suit up to 600 cc bikes.

K’s hydrogen generators set for trucks:

Photos of Honda Wave 125 cc with an installed hydrogen generator:

Cars are boring

When I came to show, I made big mistake: I started visitation with cars, when I planed to visit show especially to look at bikes and then write report on this blog. I spent several hours, whole battery of my camera and big amount of my energy and attention for that stupid cars. And, as a lover of everything unusual and bright, now I can surely say: “Cars are boring!!!” On the exposition companies just put stock models with usual shapes and sad grayscale colors. There were no tuned cars, or I didn’t noticed their modes tuning. It wasn’t bright, colorful and fun. Even girls looked similarly boring in their strict clothing and makeup. After that, coming to a motorcycle section was like breath of fresh air…

Cars’ section:

Versus motorcycles section – completely defferent attitude:

Honda really has fun!

It was really sad for me, as to a fan of Kawasaki KSR, that their exposition was poor: just stock bikes which we can see in every Kawasaki showroom and only 3 (!) bikes tuned by Ueno shop: one KSR, one D-Tracker (their big motard) and one Ninja (their supersport bike). With a strong KSR community and big number of beautiful tuned bikes Kawasaki could invite more enthusasists to show.

Kawasaki exhibition – same picture you can see in every Kawasaki showroom:

Performers weren’t cool enough:

Also, I don’t know why, Suzuki always takes 3rd place after Honda and Yamaha. The company has very good bikes, comparable to Honda and Yamaha, but – Suzuki always eats dust. At the exhibition they had show simplier than H & Y, not so interesting tuned bikes.

6 tuned Suzuki bikes – nothing special:

And, of course, Yamaha took 2nd place Honda – 1st. They had brilliant decorations, shows, big number of amazingly tuned bikes, interesting shops of club clothing and parts for tuning, great and nice dressed performers.

Yamaha presented absolutely strange bikes’ custom modifications:

Honda – always bright:

Always has fresh ideas for a show:

Check out other interesting posts

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• Kawasaki KSR: bike for motor-bboys
  
• Honda: Let’s Have Fun!
  
• Tough Thai Dude
  
• Restoring of One of Chalys: from a Bunch of Trash to a Cute Little Choppy
  

4 Responses to “I’d visited the 30th Bangkok International Motor Show!”

1. Faces of Bangkok Motor Show (yep, 50+ pics of kawaii girls inside) - Motosai says:

   April 7, 2009 at 10:21 pm

   [...] I promised, I continue my reportage from 30th BKK International Motor Show. Here I post only photos of people from the show. On most photos are girls – show performers. As I [...]

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2. saputra says:

   April 16, 2009 at 11:56 pm

   mana modifikasi honda revo yang 100 cc nya.
   tolong di liput donk

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3. hossein says:

   September 21, 2009 at 3:27 am

   pls.tell me next date exe.motor

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4. LUCILLEDodson22 says:

   September 2, 2010 at 3:17 pm

   I had a dream to make my firm, however I didn’t have got enough of money to do it. Thank heaven my friend proposed to take the personal loans. Therefore I took the short term loan and made real my old dream.

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