Daihatsu has introduced its automobile reveals 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, based mostly on motorsports and group themes.
The motorsport part will likely be led by the Mira e:S GR Sport Idea, which is predicated 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 latest entrance and rear bumpers and sports activities seats, full with GR badging. There’s a change within the operating gear as nicely, with the research gaining a 660 cc turbocharged mill and a five-speed guide transmission.
There’s no point out of output, however this needs to be the regulation 64 PS and 92 Nm obtainable from the automaker’s 660 cc turbo KF engine, which is a bump from the 49 PS and 57 Nm coming off the bottom automotive’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 contains a turbocharged 660 cc engine and a five-speed guide transmission, however will get the racing works, with these coming within the type of totally 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 automotive, its engine displacement has been elevated from the same old 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 help automobile for motorsport actions. The primary novelty with this one is its sliding cargo area cowl. Elsewhere, there’s the Atrai Wildranger2, which is badged as a catastrophe prevention help automobile. Highlights embrace as a tough cargo provider, exterior energy provide and an authentic catastrophe prevention set storage field.
The remaining two show automobiles are the Hijet Truck Carry catastrophe reduction automobile and Hijet Truck Instrument Base. The previous has been designed from classes learnt through the heavy rain catastrophe in northern Kyushu in July 2023. Particular elements embrace photo voltaic panels, moveable energy sources, high-pressure cleansing units and a carry an authentic carry. As for the Hijet device base, it contains a device base that may be positioned on the loading platform to enhance the working atmosphere at development websites.
The shows gained’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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