“Kei” or “lightweight” cars are ubiquitous in Japan. Everywhere you go there’s at least a hundred of them scattered around the place either in small truck form doing deliveries or little vans and hatchbacks getting from A to B. It’s not often you seem them modified past a new set of lowered springs, an exhaust and a set of wheels. Maybe even a body kit if the owner is feeling adventurous.
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Posted by Scott in Kei, tags: drift, Keu, mini, Truck
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These are just some pictures pulled out of a Japanese drift magazine called Drift Tengoku or Dori-Ten for short.
Kei cars / trucks have a maximum engine size of 660cc and can also be turbo or supercharged and are usually quite small and light weight hence the name Kei Car. Many people in Japan tune them like these ones below or just use them as daily run abouts. The selling point of owning a Kei Car is cheap shakken (registration) which will usually costs about 30,000 – 50,000 yen every 2 years compared to shakken for car like my JZX90 which is around 130,000 yen or so.
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Posted by Scott in Kei, tags: AWD, Clipper, Curoe, D1, Daihatsu, drift, Kei, L700, Lsd, Mira, Nissan
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With such a beaten up body and a D1 Street Legal sticker on its sides, this Daihatsu Mira could only by a drift car, but how? Simple, take an AWD Mira, get rid of the front dive shafts and you got yourself a Kei-car drift machine! 120 PS aren’t much but there are only 600 kg to haul around.
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My most recent exposure to kei drifting came last weekend at the MSC Honjo event. The Daihatsu Mira driven by
Mr. Suzuki from Team Always! defeated a bunch of S13’s to take the first place in the Middle Class competition. It sure was a sight to see and we will have more on this car coming up soon.
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I get the feeling some people will lose the plot over this post.
“I’m sick of Silvias and Skylines and AE86s!” they say.
“I want something a bit more unique! Something a bit weirder!” they cry.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you kei truck drifting. Read the rest of this entry »
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