Daihatsu
The Daihatsu Boon is one of 112 Daihatsu models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 2004. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Daihatsu Boon properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Suzuki Motor Corporation Suzuki Swift, the Ford Ford Mustang, the Hyundai Hyundai Tucson — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Daihatsu Boon reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 936 cc Daihatsu K-series engine#KJ / KJ-VET Turbocharger / turbo Straight-four engine / I4 (Boon X4) / 996 cc Toyota KR engine#1KR-FE / 1KR-FE S; quoted output is 98 kW (KJ-VET) / 52 kW (1KR-FE) / 64 kW (K3-VE) / 80 kW (3SZ-VE); kerb weight is recorded at 900 –; drive goes through 5-speed Manual transmission / manual / 4-speed Automatic transmission / automatic; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive / Front-engine, four-wheel-drive. Worked together, those figures give roughly 109 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Daihatsu's own catalogue the Daihatsu Boon sits alongside the Daihatsu Applause, the Daihatsu Atrai, the Daihatsu Atrai 7, the Daihatsu Ayla. The record names the Daihatsu Storia as its predecessor, anchoring one end of its lineage. Design is credited to Aiji Shimizu, Kazuki Tanaka, Michio Tada, Takumi Ichikawa and Toku Harumino (facelift). Assembly is recorded at Japan: Ikeda, Osaka (Ikeda plant).
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