Let's discuss kei cars...

[architect]

*SO,

Whatever happened to your bamboo experiments? Would like to implement some of your designs in the prototype. Also, your email addy keeps bouncing.

Lastly, when is your birthday? Di ba, malapit na? Also that means you can now formally join the group.

[Benji_DCP]

To boost development of the the Local Kei-Car, I believe that the government must have a hand in encouraging its proliferation, it must adopt its own set of standards and incentives. As it is right, using cars with smaller displacement engines aredriven by our own motivation to save on fuel costs.

Cheaper yearly registration costs could be one incentive. The current LTO registration system and procedure makes no further classification of 4-wheeled vehicles, classified under LIGHT with engine displacements of 1600cc and below.

[Benji_DCP]

Kei car
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kei car, K-car, or keijidōsha (literally "light automobile") (軽自動車, keijidōsha ?) (pronounced /keːdʑidoːɕa/), is a Japanese category of small automobiles, including passenger cars, vans ("microvans") and pickup trucks. They are designed to exploit local tax and insurance relaxations, and are exempted from the requirement to certify that adequate parking is available for the vehicle.[1][2] These standards originated in the times following the end of the Second World War, when most Japanese could not afford a full-sized car yet had enough to buy a motorcycle. To promote the growth of the car industry, as well as to offer an alternative delivery method to small business and shop owners, kei car standards were created.


Daihatsu, Honda, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Smart,[5] Subaru, and Suzuki all manufacture kei cars, while Nissan sells badge engineered versions of Mazda, Mitsubishi and Suzuki models under licence.

Norkis has re-engineered the Daihatsu Mira by introducing rebuilt versions here as a pick-up which they rebadged as the Legacy.

[architect]

Interesting discussion on kei cars in the USA going on in the GM Inside News Forum -

http://www.gminsidenews.com/forums/f...tandard-64235/

[Benji_DCP]

The Norkis Legacy (From the Daihtasu Mira) is a "Kei" car by Japanese standards:
Linking some of my pictures of the Norkis Legacy: