Tag: kei car

Commercial Time: pushing the Daihatsu Leeza ChaCha

I would say this Daihatsu Leeza ChaCha commercial is the weirdest ever: what car company would like to sell their car by claiming you are able to push it? Was it a selling point that any typical Japanese young women in the late 80s and early 90s could push their own car? Did she run…




Minipato: small kei patrol cars

Just found a new mind boggling term: Minipato (ミニパト). Basically I was searching around for the Suzuki Cervo SS20 and stumbled upon a page about the Suzuki Cervo used in the Mechadoc manga and anime. It was referred to as the Minipato. So what is a Minipato then? Simple: a mini patrol car! Now how…




Super Lucent Mira

What can badge tuning do to an awesome kei-car like the Daihatsu Mira TR-XX? Make it’s name even more awesome! A Daihatsu Mira L200 Super Lucent TR-XX! How long can a name get? 😀 BTW: I love the little bosozoku hood fins! 😉




Hilarious: kei cars19 years ago in Top Gear

Honestly I do love Top Gear, but I simply can’t find the time to actually follow it… Most of the time I just wait for the reviews and see if I really need to see an episode… People already speculate that this actually might be the last series of the new Top Gear, which I…




DOTS: Subaru Justy J12 4WD SLII

Another DOTS from my vacation in Hungary: I drove through a small town with a junkyard and spotted a tuned Corolla with big foglights up front. I wanted to take some pictures of the Corolla but it was an EE80 model, too far away and half hidden behind other vehicles. Then I spotted this faded…




Kei-car fun!

I found this video about a historical kei-car race some time ago on youtube. The drivers are having a lot of fun with their kei-cars in the rain and it does have a lot of action in it! The race is viewed from a Suzuki Fronte Coupe (better known as the Cervo outside Japan) and…