Show Us The Best Kei Cars

While Europeans got themselves some fantastic bubble cars after the war, the Japanese did something very similar with the introduction of the kei car category. The difference is that while the old continent switched to Mini's and Golfs pretty soon after things got back to normal, the Japanese kept their superminis…

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'Touge' Is The Japanese Art Of Mountain Drifting

There is something elemental about Japanese videos of cars drifting down mountain sides. It's called "touge" (or tōge), and this time, it's a bunch of Lilliputian kei cars and a full-size van that are the dorifto machines of choice.

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Honda Motocompo Fits In Your Tiny Trunk!

Honda_Motocompo.jpgTiny Japanese cars from the '70s and '80s are awesome, but can you really fit anything more than a small suitcase or a couple bento boxes in the back? Actually, yes. In fact, back in the '80s, Honda sold the City with a motorcycle in the rear hatch. How did it fit? It transformed!

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Chery Making Out-Of-Scale Kei Vans?

chery-van-2.jpgWe just came across a set of new spy shots of what appears to be an as-of-yet-unknown new Chery van which to us looks a whole lot like a plus-size kei-type van. Aside from noting the dude smoking a cigarette in the drivers seat and — is that toilet paper on the dash? Whatever, we've got nothing on this one. As you may…

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DOTS Geneva: A Tiny Something Or Other

something-tech-microcar-1.jpgWe have no idea what this is, but after the Peel Trident, this is probably the smallest street legal vehicle we've ever seen. And despite our best deciphering and sleuthing efforts, it remains unidentified. F-gobble-de-gook Tech was the best we could get out of it. How can someone get into this thing and feel fine…

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