Daihatsu does not build many cars like the Daihatsu Midget: a 2-door truck with 659 , built from 1957 to 2001 at the height of the post-war boom.
How it came about
The Daihatsu Midget (Japanese: ダイハツ・ミゼット, Hepburn: Daihatsu Mizetto) is a single-seater mini-truck, later a microvan/kei truck made by Japanese automaker Daihatsu. Several distinct vehicles have borne the Midget name over the years, but all have had in common a single or two-seat utilitarian design, with an enclosed or semi-enclosed cab.
The hardware
Under the skin sits 659 other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. Kerb weight is 580 kg. The gearbox is a 3-speed automatic. 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 1840 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Where it sits in Daihatsu's history is not in doubt: it was built at Ikeda Plant, Ikeda, Osaka, Japan. On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Fiat 500, the Nissan Skyline, the Dodge Challenger. Its Daihatsu stablemates include the Daihatsu Applause and the Daihatsu Atrai.
The money
There is no federal ownership record for the Daihatsu Midget — 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.