Toyota is making a limited edition bike under its Lexus brand that will use materials that the auto manufacturer uses for its Lexus LFA sports car model. Toyota will limit the road bike to 100 units, and reportedly sell it for 1 million yen, or about $10,000 USD. Shimano, a Japanese manufacturer of bike components and parts, will manufacture the Lexus bike line.
Other car manufacturers including BMW, Porsche and Mercedes-Benz have limited edition road bikes that are priced between 400,000 yen and 810,000 yen.
This is not the first road bike produced under the Toyota name. Toyota commissioned Parlee Cycles and Deeplocal to build a Prius concept bike with aerodynamics and neuro shifting via a mobile phone even brain activity.
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[via: Daily Herald: Toyota produces $10,000 bicycle]
[via: Toyota: The Prius Concept Bike]