Daihatsu Terios

The Daihatsu Terios 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 1997. 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 Terios properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1990s were the decade of refinement — airbags and ABS became universal, Japanese build quality set the world standard, and the modern SUV segment was effectively invented. 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 Toyota Toyota Prius, the Subaru Subaru Forester, the Alfa Romeo Alfa Romeo 156 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Daihatsu Terios reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 658 cc Daihatsu E-series engine#EF-series (660 cc) / EF-DEM/DET Turbocharger / turbo Straight-three engine / I3 (Terios Kid/Lucia) / 1.3 L Daiha; quoted output is 44 – (EF-DEM/EF-DET) / 63-68 kW (HC-EJ) / 66 kW (K3-VE) / 103 kW (K3-VET) / 63 kW (HE-E) / 63 kW (HD-C) / 66 kW (HD-E); kerb weight is recorded at 1025 – / 960 – (Terios Kid/Lucia) / 1100 – (Taruna); drive goes through 5-speed Manual transmission / manual / 4-speed Automatic transmission / automatic; the layout is Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive (1997–present) / Front-engine, four-wheel-drive (1997–2017). Worked together, those figures give roughly 43 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 Terios sits alongside the Daihatsu Applause, the Daihatsu Atrai, the Daihatsu Atrai 7, the Daihatsu Ayla. The record names the Daihatsu Rocky/Feroza/Sportrak (F300) as its predecessor and the Daihatsu Cast / Daihatsu Cast Activa (Terios Kid/Lucia) / Daihatsu Taft (LA900) (Terios Kid/Lucia) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Assembly is recorded at Japan: Nakatsu, Ōita / Nakatsu, Ōita Prefecture / Ōita (Daihatsu Auto Body) / Venezuela: Cumaná, Sucre (state) / Sucre (Toyota de Venezuela) / Malaysia: Rawang, Selangor (Perodua /.

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

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