With 133 motorbikes and scooters on display from Japan's four major manufacturers, and 57 more from eight overseas makers, eye candy abounds at the 2005 Tokyo Motor Show. This year's show features 29 world premiers and 37 Japan premiers. Here are just a few of the many highlights.
Making its Asia debut at the 39th Tokyo Motor Show, the HP2 Enduro is the first of BMW's new High Performance series motorcycles, a two-wheel version of the firm's M-Series hotrods.
Weighing just 195 kg fully fueled, packing a 105 hp twin-cylinder boxer motor that can launch the bike from 0 to 100 kph in just 3.2 seconds, the hand-built limited production HP2 is the world's most powerful production dual-purpose motorcycle. One BMW official likened racing it to "going to a gunfight with a cannon."