Nissan Pivo

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Nissan Pivo at the 2005 Tokyo Motor Show

Side view with open door

The Nissan Pivo is a concept car created by Nissan. The Pivo was first introduced at the 2005 Tokyo Motor Show. The car is essentially a 360 degree rotating cabin on a chassis of 4 wheels, and hence eliminates the need for reversing and makes parking easier.

Rather than a typical internal combustion engine, the Pivo is powered by a lithium-ion battery which emits less harmful gases into the atmosphere than other typical vehicles. The car's futuristic design incorporates large doors for easy access to the cabin and large windscreens and windows for high visibility. As well as the fully rotational cabin, the Pivo features Nissan's Around View Monitor system. This reduces blindspots (areas of the road which cannot be seen from the driver's position) by displaying the outside surroundings on screens mounted on the inside of the car's A-pillars.

While the word pivo means beer in Czech and several other Slavic languages, the car design has nothing to do with beer cans or keg barrels.

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A Nissan Pivo exposed at Science Museum, London.	The concept car with open doors.	The car's inner.	The car rotating.
The car rotating.

[edit] References

• Pivo 2 Nissan Official Website.
• Pivo 2 2007 Tokyo Auto Show Preview.
• Nissan Pivo Info @ ConceptCarz.com