Daihatsu Consorte

The Daihatsu Consorte 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 1969. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Daihatsu Consorte properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1960s were the decade of the pony car, the mid-engined revolution and the birth of the modern hot hatchback's ancestors — engineering advanced faster than in any decade before it. 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 Range Rover Range Rover, the American Motors Corporation AMC Gremlin, the Peugeot Peugeot 504 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Daihatsu Consorte reads like this: the record lists its engine as 958 cc List of Daihatsu engines#FE / FE Overhead valve / OHV Inline-four engine / I4 (EP30/45) / 1166 cc Toyota K engine#3K / 3K/3K-U OHV I4 (EP31/47/51); kerb weight is recorded at 670-745 kg (2-door sedan) / 740-770 kg (4-door sedan) / 720-750 kg (coupé); drive goes through 4-speed manual transmission / manual Toyota K transmission#K40 / K40 / 5-speed manual Toyota K transmission#K50/K51 / K50 / 2-speed automatic transmission / automatic Toyota A tran; the layout is FR layout. 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.

Its place in the Daihatsu story

Within Daihatsu's own catalogue the Daihatsu Consorte sits alongside the Daihatsu Applause, the Daihatsu Atrai, the Daihatsu Atrai 7, the Daihatsu Ayla. The record names the Daihatsu Compagno as its predecessor and the Daihatsu Charade (2-door sedan/coupé) / Daihatsu Charmant (4-door sedan) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to class = Subcompact. Assembly is recorded at Ikeda, Osaka, Japan.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

What this page cannot yet tell you is what the Daihatsu Consorte costs to live with — that is a different dataset. MotorJury's ownership verdicts are computed from federal complaint and recall records plus EPA economy data, published per model year as the nightly ingest reaches each car. If this model was sold in the United States, its years will surface in the ownership database; browse it live or price any car yourself with the true-cost calculator.