Dis Is Not A Chawade: 1992 Daihatsu Charade SE
Are you trying to decide if your next car should have 2 cylinders or 4 cylinders? Perhaps you want the frugal fuel economy that only 2 cylinders can provide, but the smooth and refined sounds of a 4-cylinder. Or maybe you want some of the 4-cylinder horsepower, but mixed with the 2-cylinder maintenance costs (2 spark plugs, 2 intake valves…everything costs 1/2 as much)…but you can’t decide. Then you get a 3-cylinder engine, because now you get all of the thrashy noises associated with a un-even number of cylinders combined with a hamster-pulling-a-boulder-up-a-hill acceleration. Find this 1992 Daihatsu Charade offered for $3,500 in Groveland, FL via headcrash wreckingbook. Tip from David.
From the seller:
1992 Daihatsu Charade SE Hatchback 2D
$3,500
Vehicles
Listed 8 weeks ago in Groveland, FL
About This Vehicle
Driven 152,000 miles
Manual transmission
Exterior color: Blue
Fuel type: Gasoline
30.0 MPG city · 35.0 MPG highway · 32.0 MPG combined
This vehicle is paid off
Clean title
This vehicle has no significant damage or problems.
Seller’s Description
Daihatsu Charade in great condition! Antique car, Rare car you won’t see often. Runs great I daily 100miles round trip no issues. Manual transmission shifts great no issues. Gets about 40mpg. AC works. Paint is original, car has no rust all all. Cosmetic is not perfect but still great.
Update* mileage is at 154k now since I’ve posted it.Trade for 350z or 350z body parts, Bobber style motorcycle, car hauler
See a better way to drive something with an odd number of cylinders? tips@dailyturismo.com
To drive this properly you need total concentwation.
again…..with feewing.
“Trade for 350Z” lol
Good luck, buddy.
Considering that this is the automotive equivalent of Kleenex, this is in amazing condition even if it didn’t have 154,000 miles on it.
Oh, these aren’t “original miles” maybe these are those aftermarket miles I hear so much about.
I went on a run with a one of the pizza delivery drivers back in the day trying to convince me these are cool. For what it’s worth, these things are pretty zippy in tight turning situations like in the neighborhoods where you shouldn’t be speeding.
Daihatsu should’ve collaborated with Honda & marketed these as an entry level car below the Civic as nobody knew what to make of the new Daihatsu brand. They were built just as stout as any golden era Honda car and were fun to drive too. I know the Venn Diagram is tiny for Americans with fond memories of these, but it does exist.
A Chawade made 150 000 miles? The Apocalypse is Anon!
I had to google up “bobber style” and got this result, which I figured was n/a…
Generally speaking, a bobber serves several purposes, the first of which is that it can suspend a particular bait at a predetermined depth. This is particularly important when fishing for panfish like crappie or perch.
Clickety-click-click… There we go…
The typical construction includes stripping excess bodywork from a motorcycle; removing the front fender, and shortening the rear fender, which is “bobbed” (as in bob-tail), and all superfluous parts removed to reduce weight.
Fishing for crappie? That’s all we do here! Oh, that’s “crappy” not “crappie”. My mistake.
I bought one of these brand new is 1992. Drove it across the county multiple times. It was one of the best cars I’ve ever owned.
While it’s not a Charade, the Daihatsu Mira featured over many, many episodes of Mighty Car Mods should convince anyone that Daihatsu made seriously good tiny cars.
https://youtu.be/wYovkrFEe9Q
This may be the all time worst car name choice in the English language. I can’t figure out what they meant to imply with it, but the first thing that comes to mind is that it’s pretending to be a car.
Well there’s that car that Aspired to be a real car but was all some unlucky folks could afFord. What was its names again?