Toyota Camatte - a car for children

The main trick of the Camatte for parties is the ability to change the body panels to different colors or styles to suit your mood.

But this little weird concept is designed to get little kids into cars with their parents. To that end, Toyota says it can carry three people — essentially two adults and a child.

The Toyota Camatte concept was unveiled at the 2012 Tokyo International Toy Fair with features that the Japanese automaker touts as particularly kid-friendly. 

The Camatte's main party trick is the ability to change body panels by installing others in a different color or style, depending on your mood, or perhaps to entertain the whole family when there's nothing on TV. But the bigger challenge he's been given is sparking an early interest in driving - in a world where young people are increasingly avoiding the car.

With the ability to communicate through a plethora of social media, combined with growing economic pressure and unemployment in many countries, young people are giving up not only the car, but even the ritual of learning to drive. This car is designed to do the same job that was once attributed to cigarettes on a stick: keep them young and they will keep the habit.

However, Toyota says the simple body structure and components are meant to give the whole family "an opportunity to get more familiar with how cars work."

The seats are arranged in a one-plus-two triangle to help communicate between the child in front and the parents in the back, according to the automaker.

The car also has pedals so that the child can "develop driving skills while the parent takes care of important tasks like steering and braking." There are no details on the powertrain, but the video shows it could be the battery pack as the car is taken apart and reconfigured. The parent in the right seat can also take control of the steering and brakes while the vehicle is in motion.

Camette is shown in two versions: Camette "Sora" and Camette "Daichi". There are no production plans at the moment. However, you should not completely abandon the idea of ​​​​appearing something similar on the market.

As in many other countries, slender youth in Japan are turning their backs on cars. And that worries Japanese automakers, who know that if they don't make them young, they might not get them at all.