Yamaha Tesseract

YamahaTesseract

YamahaTesseract

YamahaTesseract

YamahaTesseract

Yamaha's Tesseract looks like something from the "Transformers" movie. It's not clear whether it would even be classified as a motorcycle, even if it made it to market, which is unlikely.

YamahaTesseract

By now, you’ve probably seen Yamaha’s four-wheeled concept bike Tesseract. But you haven’t seen it in motion. The company has an excellent Tokyo show mini-site up with movies and specs for all its concepts. We challenge you to watch the Bobby animation and tell us you don’t want one.

Yamaha 2008 Tokyo Auto Show

YamahaTesseract

Yamaha’s Tesseract looks like it wound up on the cutting room floor from the “Transformers” movie. It has another one of those dreamweaver hybrid powerplants; the jury is out whether it would even be classified as a motorcycle. Would it look quite as cool with air bags, seatbelts and impact-resistant bumpers? I don’t think so. It’s kind of a grown-up version of one of those scooters for the “help-I’ve-fallen-and-can’t-get-up crowd.” Perfect for cruising supermarket aisles. A lot of showgoers cooed over the retro-classic Yamaha Sakura. A standard-style bike with an 1,100cc V-twin would generate a lot of showroom traffic, methinks.