Daihatsu has introduced its car displays for the Tokyo Auto Salon 2025, which is ready to happen on the Makuhari Messe subsequent month, on January 10 to 12, 2025. For this version, the automaker is ready to show seven automobiles, primarily based on motorsports and neighborhood themes.
The motorsport part will likely be led by the Mira e:S GR Sport Idea, which relies on the LA350 Mira e:S that made its debut again in 2017. It has been spruced up for the event with the inclusion of recent entrance and rear bumpers and sports activities seats, full with GR badging. There’s a change within the working gear as effectively, with the examine gaining a 660 cc turbocharged mill and a five-speed handbook transmission.
There’s no point out of output, however this ought to be the regulation 64 PS and 92 Nm accessible from the automaker’s 660 cc turbo KF engine, which is a bump from the 49 PS and 57 Nm coming off the bottom automobile’s F 658 cc naturally-aspirated three-pot. Whereas tagged as an idea, there’s a chance that this one might observe the identical path taken by the Copen GR Sport Idea from 2019, which made it into manufacturing kind later that yr.
The 2 different motorsports-based autos are the Mira e:S and Copen GR Sport motorsports fashions. The racing model of the Mira has competed within the All Japan Rally Championship, GR Rally Problem and related occasions. It too incorporates a turbocharged 660 cc engine and a five-speed handbook transmission, however will get the racing works, with these coming within the type of completely different wheels, racing livery and the inclusion of a six-point roll cage, with the rear seats eliminated.
As for the Copen GR Sport race automobile, its engine displacement has been elevated from the standard 660 cc to 770 cc, with the mill remaining turbocharged. The roadster, which competed within the 2024 Rally Japan, options 40 mm wider fenders in addition to a six-point roll cage.
Straddling the 2 themes is the Hijet Truck Jumbo Extend2, which the corporate tags as a assist car for motorsport actions. The primary novelty with this one is its sliding cargo house cowl. Elsewhere, there’s the Atrai Wildranger2, which is badged as a catastrophe prevention assist car. Highlights embrace as a tough cargo provider, exterior energy provide and an unique catastrophe prevention set storage field.
The remaining two show automobiles are the Hijet Truck Raise catastrophe reduction car and Hijet Truck Instrument Base. The previous has been designed from classes learnt in the course of the heavy rain catastrophe in northern Kyushu in July 2023. Particular elements embrace photo voltaic panels, moveable energy sources, high-pressure cleansing gadgets and a raise an unique raise. As for the Hijet device base, it incorporates a device base that may be positioned on the loading platform to enhance the working setting at development websites.
The shows received’t solely be proven at TAS 2025, as they’re set to make an look on the Osaka Auto Messe 2025, which runs from February 7 to 9.
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