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Kei Car Weekend Edition: Daihatsu Leeza Spider Turbo
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Continuing with the Kei Car Weekend Edition, we move back into convertible weirdness, best served Daihatsu badged. The Leeza was a largely unremarkable hatchback built from 1986 to 1993, but it had a convertible version called the Spider, and that injected it with a dash of careless cool. The 730kg droptop had a 660cc engine…
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Kei Car Weekend Edition: Mazda/Autozam AZ-1
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One of the most interest-generating vehicles in the Kei car class is the Autozam AZ-1. It’s a weird amalgam of Mazda design, Suzuki build and bespoke branding, as it was developed at the time when the Japanese bubble economy hadn’t yet burst and Mazda had a ton of different brands under which to do trade.…
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Kei Car Weekend Edition – Honda Beat
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What do you think is the most loveable Kei car of all? Perhaps it’s the mid-engined rollerskate that is the Honda Beat, as it’s the smallest canvas on which you could slap ’90s Honda styling cues. The Beat is a pretty little thing, but it was brisk, with 64 hp out of the 656cc engine,…
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Kei Car Weekend Edition – Suzuki Alto CA71/CC72 Works
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Hello! This is your timely reminder that kei cars are awesome. Just in case you’ve forgotten how awesome they are, this weekend you will be able to enjoy an assortment of the smallest and the coolest kei cars made. Weird ads, weird stickers, small displacement, turbos – you got it all. The first car to…
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Not Honda CRX Weekend Edition: Hyundai Scoupe
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For some, the swoopy Hyundai Coupe from the mid-1990s was the first interesting Korean car. For some, the Genesis was, and then there are people who still wait for one to appear. But I find even the 1988-unveiled Scoupe, or S Coupe interesting, as the design simply works for me. The Scoupe wasn’t anything to…
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Not Honda CRX Weekend Edition: Toyota Cynos/Paseo
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It’s time for a weekend edition round these parts, and after recent Regular Car Reviews pieces about Honda CRX:s, one did wonder if those small hatchback coupes were the best things in their class. Sure, from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, plenty of Japanese-originating small front-wheel-drive coupes were available, but it’s possible no other…
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Oddball Convertible Weekend: The Volvo 262C Solaire
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The Volvo 262C is a classy car as it comes. Who wouldn’t love a plush version of a two-door 200-series, with a chopped roof designed by Bertone and a six up front? The only way to make it better is to chop that roof right out and turn it into a convertible. But of course.…
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Oddball Convertible Weekend: The AMC Sundancer
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As weird convertible cars come, it’s difficult to get much weirder than the AMC Sundancer. Come to think of it, a regular AMC Eagle is sort of offbeat – a proto-Allroad, a lifted Concord, something as backdated and unmistakably distilled in its origins as a Saab was in the ’80s, cool by not trying to…
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Oddball Convertible Weekend: The Volvo 480 Cabriolet
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“Did they really make a Volvo 480 cabriolet?” Yes, they did build a few of them. Depending of how fond you are of the wedgy Volvo, it’s either unfortunate or a blessing they didn’t build more than a small pre-production run, along with a Belgian supplier creating some prototypes of their own. But the few…
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Oddball Convertible Weekend: The Nissan Micra/March Cabriolet
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This weekend will centre around the kind of convertible cars, which can make you think “I didn’t know they made these. Why did they make these?” The first one to go is the K11 body Nissan Micra Cabriolet, also known as the March in its home market. The first generation Micra had only the Canvas…
