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The Japanese - and we say with the greatest respect and worship - are an unusual group They probably think the same thing about us of course, but the potatoes flavored Kit Kats and automatic distribution machines under Underwear women not only Japan when it comes to weirdness But if need more proof, just look at their cars; especially cars Loopy Kei Japan Designed to fit a tight set of size, rules of electrical capacity and motor Keis are the answer from Japan to congested roads and limited parking rather than slapping an arbitrary tax on urban tolls as they are in the UK, they simply make cars less congestive Here are 10 of the craziest Japanese Keis.
One of the strangest ever kei cars, but also one of the coolest, is the Mazda Autozam AZ-1 It's every inch supercar in miniature wing doors Gull Check composite body Check Immensely cabin compromise Arrival engine mid Well yes, that too like all kei cars, it has a 660cc engine, in this case a turbo engine for 63 officials horse not powerful, no, but it weighs only 720 kilos and most of that is behind you a short impression, very narrow.
If you've played the Gran Turismo series of games, you'll be quite familiar with the Midget II mostly as an object of ridicule, but when familiar even if you can not tell from the picture, it Sá style retro, pickup car naturally as AZ-1 above is also mid-engined, but mid-mounted under the butt Choose the automatic version of the manual, and it comes with half a seat where the gear lever would normally, you can take a very, very close friend for the ride or race.
Honda Vamos modern is not that interesting - it is just one of many boxy keis available in Japan, an average commuting end The original is much more worthy of this list, it shares a passing resemblance to the Midget, just because it's built to regulation 1970 previous kei it has a simple 354cc at its disposal, divided between two cylinders Buzzy it is also, inexplicably, an open-top vehicle Think of it as the equivalent of Japan jeeps early Willy years that no practicality whatsoever.
Back in the day, there was a group of amateurs brilliantly named for this particular car known as the Daihatsu Naked Owners Club There might have been two actually, but meetings of the Daihatsu Naked Owners Club was quite different the Daihatsu naked Owners Club the former brought together fans of unusual kei, so named because it seemed to carry the bare boards with structural components such as hinges and clearly visible trim screws, like a Land Rover Defender The former was just a Daihatsu owners group without clothes on.
Lapine is French for the rabbit, which is why every car was adorned with a floppy-eared creature on the card - perhaps the least aggressive car emblem ever Conceptually, it is nothing special, but his style was at least a little odd, with a hint of the original Mini Clubman, not the car German real nickname on it despite Mini connotations, the Lapine was also the basis for one of the best tributes to Japan classic car with body kits allow you to dress like an old Renault 4.
Back to a classic Kei Now imagine taking an original, chic Fiat 500 and making it slightly more ugly in every imaginable detail, and you will come with the Subaru 360 As Turin 500 if it was surprisingly spacious inside and almost perfectly suited for small, crowded streets, he would call home, it appeared only one year after the 500, so unless Subaru was very fast with its development process, which could reasonably be described as automobile convergent evolution - two similar vehicles, but unrelated worn conditions may not be the car of your natural sumo wrestler like environment of choice, but rather, will you talk to this guy.
One could, realistically, have filled this list entirely with Daihatsu cars kei between concepts and production models, they have a monopoly on madness still walk through Van you see here is still one of the vehicles the strangest we've ever seen Resembling the results of a tragic accident parked below-cable car you get Daihatsu printing would have done even more it was not for the kei car regulations specifying a maximum height of two meters We're assuming things were used by post shipments, small business, ice cream parlors and the like, but it wouldn t surprise us if we learned that it was also used as a stand-up taxi ten people for those who need a little more space than getting on the Tokyo subway system.
Resembling a concept soon to the Smart Fortwo, it comes as a surprise to learn the Suzuki Twin debuted in 2003 published a little less innovative than you are led to believe, until you learn again that there was also a hybrid version available - the first system in a car kei Unlike the Smart Fortwo there was in fact a version of manual transmission available, which makes it seem a bit of a chuckle given gasoline engine of revvy car and tiny proportions well, if you had the spuds to be seen driving one is Or maybe you didn not have the spuds.
Since Honda today debuted in 1985, it has always been a bit unusual - twin engine 545CC, beady headlights, big shave-back with a guillotine - but it's 1993 two-door sedan we're putting focus on here rather than mount a hatchback, which probably would have been costly, the rear window was fixed this meant access to the trunk was a small hinged lid down, like you get on a Mini classical interior was also asymmetric for Honda said most of his clients would travel alone, so gave them a bigger, comfier seat driver Damned ugly but very intelligent.
In standard form, the Sambar is yet another van anonymous kei Bread-of-bread style wheels not quite on every corner, a set of seats Pokey looking but you'll probably never seen a standard one - type Subaru Sambar in google and you get images like the one above - an overwhelming popular majority to convert van dull replica pint of iconic type size VW 2 weirdly bus, it works fine just don t smoke the good things in it - not the man, aren t the walls closing in around you, it was always that small.
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