Toyota makes a motorcycle, kinda

Created to expand Toyota’s presence in action sports circles (they want people with bikes to buy Tundra pickups to haul them), this one-off Toyota motocross bike is essentially an exercise in pushing the limits of logo inclusion. Unveiled at the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show last week in Vegas, the JGR/Toyota Motocross Bike Concept manages to machine or engineer a Toyota logo into virtually every surface. Just check out the brake discs. Based on a 2009 Yamaha YZ450F, the bike’s gone through an extensive lightening process, with the frame hollowed out and cross braced, has had its body panels replaced with carbon fiber and uses titanium components throughout the bolt-on spec. While we’d always sort of imagined a Toyota motorcycle would be something imminently practical and more than a little beige, this is still a pretty cool custom motocrosser. Click through for complete specs.
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