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Yamaha is one of the biggest names in motorcycles, but its history with four wheels runs much deeper than most people realize. Long before the company showed futuristic concepts at the Tokyo Motor Show, Yamaha had already designed its own sports cars, engineered engines for other automakers and experimented with everything from lightweight city cars to a Formula 1-powered supercar. Some were created entirely in-house, others were developed with major Japanese automakers, and

There was a time when a concept truck did not need to look 90 percent ready for production. Automakers used pickups as rolling experiments, testing everything from Viper-powered roadsters and mid-engine car-truck hybrids to hydrogen-burning V10s, washable cargo areas, four-wheel steering, built-in generators, and cabins that doubled as mobile offices. Some of these trucks introduced genuinely useful ideas. Others existed mainly to stop people in their tracks at an auto show.

The 1992 Ford Bronco Boss Concept looked like somebody took a fifth-generation Bronco, smoothed out every hard edge, painted it bright yellow and sent it straight into the future. That was basically the point. Ford created the Boss Bronco for the 1992 auto-show circuit as a look at where the full-size SUV could go during the decade. It kept the real Bronco's V8, four-wheel drive and towing capability, but wrapped them in a much more aerodynamic body with a retractable roof, r