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what's up guys this is Antoine good with cnet.com on the floor at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show and we're taking a look at the car that I want to drive the most today it's the Toyota I Road concept now this little electric vehicle is about the size of your average motorcycle there's actually space in this vehicle for two despite it being so narrow and that's because you use a tandem seating style the driver sits up front and one passenger can fit behind them sort of like you would on a motorcycle now each of those front wheels is powered by a two kilowatt electric motor the gift of energy from a lithium-ion battery pack inside the body of the vehicle the interesting thing about this is that unlike most vehicles that you drive on the road today and most motorcycles it actually does it steering with the rear wheel so when you turn the yoke that in the front of the driver's seat the rear wheel kind of counter steers to kind of suit your body around now in a normal vehicle that's this narrow that could be a little scary and you could find yourself flipping over but the eye road actually has a fifth of called active can burn that uses little motors that are in the front suspension to sort of tilt the vehicle into the turn like you would on a motorcycle when you see a race driver sort of drop it a knee that gives you that extra grip in the turn when you're cornering really hard now we've been watching the demonstrators here just kind of whipping around in like very very tight circles that sort of rear-wheel steering plus active camber give this car an extremely small turning radius that's great for in the city when you need to do things like squeeze in a tiny parking spot and flip quick u-turn now the Toyota I Road concept is just that just a concept there are no actual plans to build this vehicle and sell it just yet but I'll tell you what it is as I said the vehicle that I want to drive the most on the floor that Geneva Motor Show today I've been answer one good win with cnet.com and we've been taking a look at the Toyota I