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Look at the nose of Copen Show grid smiley mouth and the four round lights now look at the tail of the opinion of the Copen the same face happy come, happy to go.
When the Japanese pronounce the name of this car, it sounds like Oh DAT-sook pin For a while, I thought it was a golf tournament, it is rather a forced merger of compact Compact and open it certainly is†22 inches shorter than a Miata, eight inches narrower and opened it will certainly press a button and the hardtop folds automatically into the trunk, the Benz SLK à prefer luggage in the chest Order your Copen with high liftoff manual are not softtop Copa cabana.
Copen up the K-car platform Daihatsu Unlike most K-cars, the engine has four cylinders, instead of three, and it produces the maximum power allowed in the class†63 Unfortunately, Daihatsu is behind the curve on NVH, and that's something a margarita blender, particularly beyond 4000 rpm, where it produces most of its giddyap perhaps because the Copen involves so much fun, you're still the poor phenomenal full thrash regime begins to wear.
It's more flexible chassis that love us, and a small roadster like this would quickly find acceptance as a rear driver Otherwise, it drives like it looks light steering, shifter snappy, many understeer, as agile as a mouse and not much bigger Even the windshield is stocky and right, so that when you drop the top, you really are outside Copen Open.
In America, with Navigators and Suburbans trampling all about, I'd feel a bit vulnerable in this thing is like driving a big ostrich egg But, hey, what you could afford to crack a little Copen costs only 12800 ,.
VEHICLE TYPE front engine, front-wheel drive, 2-seater, 2-door roadster.
TYPES OF ENGINES intermediate turbocharger and cooler DOHC 16 4-in-line valves, an aluminum block and head, the Daihatsu drive motor system with port fuel injection.
40 cu in displacement, 659cc Net Power SAE 63 bhp 6000 rpm Torque net SAE 81 lb-ft of 3200 rpm.
Wheel base 87 in Length 8133 7 Net weight 1850 lb
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