Daihatsu Move Conte

Daihatsu Move Conte

Daihatsu

MarqueDaihatsu
ProductionAugust 2008 – December 2016 (Move Conte) / September 2011 – January 2017 (Pixis Space)
Power52 PS (KF-VE) / 64 PS (KF-DET)
EnginePetrol: / 658 cc Daihatsu K-series engine#KF / KF-VE Straight-three engine / I3 / 658 cc Daihatsu K-series engine#KF / KF-DET Turbocharger / turbo I3

This is the catalogue record of the Daihatsu Move Conte, one of 112 models Daihatsu has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 2008. 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 Move Conte 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 Tesla Tesla Roadster, the Nissan Nissan 370Z, the Volkswagen Volkswagen Tiguan — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Daihatsu Move Conte reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 658 cc Daihatsu K-series engine#KF / KF-VE Straight-three engine / I3 / 658 cc Daihatsu K-series engine#KF / KF-DET Turbocharger / turbo I3; quoted output is 52 PS (KF-VE) / 64 PS (KF-DET); kerb weight is recorded at 820 –; drive goes through 4-speed Automatic transmission / automatic / Continuously variable transmission / CVT; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive (L575) / Front-engine, four-wheel-drive (L585). Worked together, those figures give roughly 63 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.

Its place in the Daihatsu story

Within Daihatsu's own catalogue the Daihatsu Move Conte sits alongside the Daihatsu Applause, the Daihatsu Atrai, the Daihatsu Atrai 7, the Daihatsu Ayla. The record names the Daihatsu Move Latte as its predecessor and the Daihatsu Move Canbus / Toyota Pixis Joy (Pixis Space) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Yuji Kitagawa and Shinichi Nakabayashi. Assembly is recorded at Japan: Nakatsu, Ōita (Daihatsu Motor Kyushu).

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

The catalogue records what the Daihatsu Move Conte was; the ownership database records what it is like to own. MotorJury computes a verdict for every model year the United States federal record covers — complaints, recalls, real economy — refreshed nightly, with no opinions involved. If this car reached the American market, its verdicts are in there.

Specifications

Transmission4-speed Automatic transmission / automatic / Continuously variable transmission / CVT
LayoutFront-engine, front-wheel-drive (L575) / Front-engine, four-wheel-drive (L585)
Body style5-door hatchback
Kerb weight820 –
Wheelbase2490 mm
Length3,395 mm
AssemblyJapan: Nakatsu, Ōita (Daihatsu Motor Kyushu)
DesignerYuji Kitagawa and Shinichi Nakabayashi
SuccessorDaihatsu Move Canbus / Toyota Pixis Joy (Pixis Space)
Catalogue IDQ3012054

Specifications come from the Wikipedia infobox for this model (CC BY-SA) and the open Wikidata record, and are shown only where a source actually carries them — nothing here is estimated. Figures are manufacturer specifications, not measured results.

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