Suzuki gets its weird on for Japan Mobility Show

Corn-fuelled Gixxers, electric beach bikes, and slightly terrifying robot horse-dog motorcycles - those are just some of the weird and forward-thinking things that Suzuki has planned for the Japan Mobility Show.

Kicking off later this month, the Japan Mobility Show (formerly known as the Tokyo Motor Show) serves as a showcase for futuristic, out-there concepts from the country’s industries. 

We’ve already taken a look at what Yamaha and Honda have planned. And like its competitors, Suzuki will be showing off a number of products and concepts - from things we already know and love to the utterly weird.

Case in point, the MoQBA 2: a four-legged rideable robot. You sit on it like you would a motorcycle, and it can, apparently, be used for a similar purpose - travelling on public roads - but it can also contort itself to climb up stairs.

“We have prepared variations that can be used for many purposes,” says Suzuki. “Such as package delivery type and motorcycle type.”

Suzuki first showed off this concept in 2023. It says it's moved things forward considerably for 2025. Unsettling.

Hydrogen Engine Burgman

Far more tolerable - and probably just as unlikely to go into production anytime soon - is the Hydrogen Engine Burgman. It’s a Burgman, but powered by a fuel source that the West seems highly unlikely to adopt (there are just 11 hydrogen publicly available hydrogen stations in the UK; compare that to more than 100,000 electric charging points).  

“Suzuki is conducting research and development on hydrogen engines as part of its multi-pathway efforts to achieve carbon neutrality,” the manufacturer says. “It is a mobility that fulfills the desire to enjoy one of the joys of motorcycles, the sound of exhaust, while riding in an environmentally conscious vehicle.”

GIXXER SF 250 FFV

Possibly a more viable alternative fuel is bioethanol. It’s viable enough, in fact, that Suzuki already sells the GIXXER 250 FFV in India. The bike was launched in January of this year and runs on 85-percent bioethanol mixed fuel.

“The use of plant-based bioethanol fuel contributes to reduction in CO2 emissions compared to conventional fossil fuels, while enabling the use of gasoline, making it highly convenient,” explains Suzuki.

Good news for the United States, perhaps, which is the world’s largest producer and exporter of corn (one of the main sources for bioethanol).

e-Address

Increasingly more conventional is EV technology, and Suzuki is already bringing such products to market. The e-Address was first revealed in India earlier this year, and was said to be arriving in the UK market late this year.

Billed as “a highly practical scooter equivalent to 125cc class model with a sufficient driving range and a refined appearance,” the e-Address hasn’t made it to Blighty yet. But, hey, there are still (as of today - 9 October) 281 days left in 2025. Plenty of time.

e-VanVan

If Suzuki’s going to bring electric vehicles to the UK, we would very much like for the eVanVan to be one of the first.

Unfortunately, it’s just a concept at the moment. One that “fulfills the customer's desire to enjoy riding a motorcycle.”

The bike is obviously based on and seeks to capture the spirit of the beloved Van Van - a model that was first launched in the 1970s. It was revived as a 125cc model in 2003 and managed to hang on all the way until 2016, when the Fun Police took it away.

“We propose a new way to enjoy EV as a fun bike,” says Suzuki.

We propose that you make this thing immediately.

And a rather stinky scooter

Lastly, Suzuki isn’t offering a great deal of detail on this one, but it says that it has developed an Access scooter prototype that runs on compressed biomethane gas, drawn as a byproduct from dairy farms. In other words, it’s a scooter that runs on cow farts.

Make your own jokes.

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