Daihatsu does not build many cars like the Daihatsu Fellow Max: a 2-door sedan / 2-door pickup truck / 3-door van with 356 cc ZM water-cooled 2-stroke I2, built from 1966 to 1970 in the decade that gave the world the pony car and the mid-engined supercar.
The background
The Daihatsu Fellow Max is a small Japanese automobile in the Kei car class. Originally introduced as the Daihatsu Fellow, the name was partially retained for its successor, the Max Cuore (1977), and then revived in 2000 for the Daihatsu Max.
The engineering
Under the skin sits 356 cc ZM water-cooled 2-stroke I2. Kerb weight is 495 kg. The gearbox is a 4-speed manual. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. The wheelbase is 1990 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
Where it sits in Daihatsu's history is not in doubt: it was built at Ikeda, Osaka, Japan. On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Lamborghini Miura, the Alfa Romeo Spider, the Toyota Corolla. Its Daihatsu stablemates include the Daihatsu Applause and the Daihatsu Atrai.
The money
There is no federal ownership record for the Daihatsu Fellow Max — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.
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