Daihatsu’s set to show off some interesting — and tiny — concept cars at the upcoming Tokyo Motor show, including electric and fuel cell vehicles.
Small cars aren’t for everybody — there’s clearly a segment of the driving audience that likes their vehicles as big and noisy as possible — but as city-based people carriers of the very near future, Daihatsu’s latest models, on show in a fortnight at the Tokyo Motor show have a lot of promise.
The D-X (at the top left in the picture above) is a compact twin cylinder “sports” micro model, while the Pico (beneath it) lacks an inbuilt projector, but does come with an EV motor on board. Finally, the FC ShoCase uses Daihatsu’s liquid fuel cell technology. [Gizmag]
Sam
Monday, November 14, 2011 at 12:08 PMThe D-X looks OK. A little bit too much black plastic around the wheels, but I think it would be a nice replacement for my Smart Roadster.
Pops from Perth
Monday, November 14, 2011 at 7:21 PMWho doesn’t sell cars in Australia any more? Daihatsu, that’s who? We’ll never see them in Oz because they pulled out years ago.
RealView
Monday, November 14, 2011 at 8:06 PMActually Daihatsu didn’t pull out of the market, Toyota pulled them from the market.
It is a shame though that we won’t see these cars here unless Toyota wants to stick one of their ‘beige cardigan’ badges on it. Daihatsu makes really good small cars.
I had a 2000 model Handi/Cuore with a 1ltr 3cyl engine and it flew at 160kmh up & down the F3 and could do the trip from Newcastle to Penrith on $5 petrol. Luckily, I never hit anything as I wouldn’t have been a skidmark on the road I am sure.