Start with what the Daihatsu Sirion is: a 5-door hatchback with gasoline engine, built from 1998, when airbags, anti-lock brakes and Japanese build quality became the world standard. What it meant takes a little longer.
The story
The Daihatsu Sirion is a subcompact/supermini hatchback produced by the Japanese automobile manufacturer Daihatsu since 1998. The Sirion nameplate was first used on export versions of the Japanese market Storia (between 1998 and 2004) and Boon (between 2004 and 2015). There are 2 models of the 1998-2004 Sirion, the M100 (three-cylinder 998cc) and the M101 (4 cylinder 1.3L) model. Both M100 and M101 were available in manual or automatic transmissions. Since 2007, the nameplate has also been used in Indonesia for the Malaysian-built Perodua Myvi, which in its first two generations were redesigned versions of the first and second-generation Boon, while the third generation is a fully independent model developed in-house by Perodua with technical support from Daihatsu.
International
Indonesia
What is underneath
The engine is gasoline engine. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
In the Daihatsu line-up the Daihatsu Sirion has a clear place: it replaced the Daihatsu Charade. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Peugeot 206, the Cadillac Escalade, the Chevrolet Silverado. Nearby in the Daihatsu catalogue sit the Daihatsu Applause and the Daihatsu Atrai.