Hey, what's going on guys? We are talking Toyota Iroad and you're probably like, what the heck is a Toyota Iroad? Well it's a concept vehicle from Toyota that's kind of been a concept for three or four years now, hasn't hit the market, not even sure it's going to hit the market here in the U.S. But it's a three wheel vehicle, fully electric and I mean it drives like a car but it feels like a motorcycle. So go ahead and hit subscribe, give me some comments and let's go ahead and click that seatbelt because we're going to go for a ride in this new Toyota Iroad. Hey, what's up guys? I'm Joe McCall. We are throwing it sideways today and we are throwing it sideways in a Toyota Iroad. Well sort of. Actually, I tried to throw it sideways but it's just, it won't do it. And we're talking something that maybe you've heard of, maybe you haven't. It's been around a little bit, kind of more on the media and press side. It's not for sale currently in the U.S. or I don't even think in Japan. It's full production, that's ready to go but I just, I don't think they're ready to sell here, especially here in the U.S. I spent a lot of time over probably three or four years now doing events, riding drives, driving it on stage, racing, you know celebrities like Jay Leno and you know it's a, it's just so different and unique. It's rear-steer front drive, it goes about 37 mile an hour top speed, 30 miles to a charge in your regular 110 socket, lean about 26 and a half degrees left to right, it's just bizarre. It's nothing you've ever experienced before. The reason I wanted to make this video is because I probably have the most time in it from anyone here in the U.S. And you know if you leave me some comments, ask me some questions about it because you know I'd love to share my experience with it. Hopefully it comes the U.S. I just don't know if it's going to. So check out some of this stuff that I put together and you know hope you like it. So one of the really cool things I got to do was raise Jay Leno on Jay Leno's garage in the Toyota Iroad and he was kind of tripping out at first, you know he raced at the headquarters in LA at the Toyota Motor Sales in Torrance and I was asked to put together a course in the parking lot and you know Jay he rolls up and he's like, oh I'll help you you know set up the course and this and that and I'm like it's all good Jay you can hang out here and we'll have it done in no time. But super nice guy and I actually got to ride Harlow's with him at one point to Sturgis for a week. Quite a few years before that but yeah check out this video, it's pretty cool. It's been concept right now and the demonstration programs that are in Europe and Japan are very controlled so the vehicle will continue to evolve. Joe I imagine it's a race you want to figure out how to get this thing up to a hundred and a hundred thousand miles from now. I've driven a lot of cool cars over the airs and this is just so different and so much fun. Or yeah if you have some sort of gyroscopic effect that allows it to- That's exactly what it is. We call it the active lean technology and your steering comes from the rear. It's almost like a rudder and actually the chief engineer of the Iroh is an avid snow gear. So you'll notice when it moves it almost has the movement of like a skier going downhill. Literally you just drive it turn it and it just leans over 26 and a half degrees left to right. Okay so it's actually super easy to drive but you still feel like you're on a motorcycle. But you also have the comfort of a vehicle like a car because you're covered from the elements and I've driven her in the rain before and she does great. And you and I will compete. It's going to touch fair. Are you confess to race you've been working on this thing for years and I'll get it for the first time? It'll be a fair race sure. We'll end up on this little race course timing each other with our cell phones and you know he was fast. He actually had a different technique. He wasn't touching the brakes at all and I was hitting the brakes super hard in the corners and going to wide open throttle but what was happening was I was getting a little bit scrub out of it and the system would activate and slow me down so my acceleration was definitely slow so we were going back and forth on time and it was super cool. So one of the cool things I got to do in the Toyota Irode was the grand opening of the main headquarters in Plano, Texas and you know got to drive Nasty Luke in out in Tundra. I got to teach Jim Lance how to drive the Irode on stage and kind of in front of all the media. We actually got to drive through the hallways in the building and it was crazy all the fun little things we got to do but we actually did a choreographed drive through like the inside area of the headquarters where there's all these little plants and little walkways and things like that so it was pretty stressful because we had all the media. It was a live show and it all came out really well but at the end of the day you can see this was on the news here in Plano but yeah it was super cool. So we also do a lot of really cool things like events for different types of drive drives and things like that and one of them was an Aspen when we launched the Irode there for the Aspen Ideas Festival. We also put together this really cool little experience for people to drive. We had a lot of media out there and different higher ups to check out how this new Irode actually works on the road. You can see they actually had a lot of fun and this is the kind of thing that my company JT Grant limited puts together for a lot of companies. So when Teta asked us to do a lot of different events and media things with the Irode and one of them was in Detroit. I mean we were just all over the country doing things you can see here. Obviously a lot of cameras on us, interviews, things like that and I just had a lot of time behind the wheel for one but I brought in my pro drivers to help me out here. We had some fun doing this for another event. It's such a cool vehicle. So fun to drive. It's so different and it just gets so much attention but yeah this is the kind of stuff that we do. Look at how this thing parks. I mean you just want a parallel park? Okay, just pop right in that spot. That rear wheel steer just makes it so easy to get in and out of tight places. You can see in this area that I set up, I just hit reverse, come dry out of that little super tight spot but you can park it anywhere. It just, it goes in any little crevice there in there. I mean you're going to have a place to park it. So let's talk about inside of the vehicle. I mean both doors open, both windows go down. There is nothing extra. There's no AC, anything like that. It just takes too much energy. But look at that steering wheel. It looks like a Toyota camera. I mean it feels like you're driving a camera when you're in it until it starts to lean like a motorcycle. So it's just the most bizarre thing having the rear steer and the lean at 26 and a half degrees. So I can't explain it to you because it's that different. It just doesn't even make sense when you drive it. People compare it to maybe jet skiing or things like that. And you know it has some similarities but until you drive it, you know it's really one of a kind. You know I like the fact that you can just plug this thing right in. I mean park it practically anywhere into regular 110 and three hours later it's fully charged. You know one of the things I like about this I wrote is you can put a passenger in the back and people like what how is that even possible. But you can you have to straddle the driver. I've given all kinds of rides over the years just because most people weren't allowed to drive it. But I would take people for rides and they're just like this thing is insane. It definitely was hard to get in and out. But two adults actually fit in this in this vehicle and pretty comfortably once you're all kind of tucked in. One of the amazing things about the Toyota Iroh is the way it sounds. I'm like you know check this out. One of my pro drivers like go ahead and start up and it sounds just like the LF. I don't get it right. Perfect. Exactly the same. But it's built at the same plant in Japan so why wouldn't it right? So that's a Toyota Iroh. Hopefully it kind of maybe you've seen it maybe it haven't. This is my experience over the years driving it doing some pretty fun stuff for that. I hope it comes here the US and I mean people ask me you know what's it like to drive maybe compared to like I don't know LFA. Well they're completely different but the end of the day they're so they're both so cool that I like them both. I mean I truly do. You probably get more looks in an LFA. Well no that's actually not true. You're going to get more looks in that Iroh if you pull up to a stop light than an LFA. Trust me. This thing looks like you know like I don't know Star Wars or something like that. So super cool. Hope you enjoyed it. Subscribe to my channel. Leave me some comments and I'll catch you next time.