Can't find a taxi? Get a Smart Car out of a vending machine instead

Photographed in Tokyo’s Shibuya Station is this awesome oddity – a vending machine for the virtually disposable little Smart Car. You may select a convertible or hard-topped model, depending on how flash you’re feeling.

Then you can drive off looking very silly indeed.

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Obviously it’s not real. You won’t get a car out of it – just some promotional…