Hasta La Ideas

Talk about doing more with less. Honda’s boxy little contribution to the tiny kei car category is the N Box +, which has at least four awesome design features: A telescoping load ramp, an internal power winch, hideaway trunk shelving, and the ability for the entire interior to flatten into a bed nearly two meters long. The features are best seen in video, and this particular version of their Japanese-TV-market commercial is great for the utter translation fail:

Alas, as with some of the best things to be designed and produced in Japan, this dimunitive vehicle will never make its way to U.S. shores.

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