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    Tokyo: EV-STER rear-wheel drive electric sports car looks to recapture Honda's sporting spirit     1322665260

    Honda has whipped the sheets off of its EV-STER, a rear-wheel drive electric roadster not dissimilar in size and scope to the late, lamented Beat kei car. If you're looking for a successor to Honda's S2000 or a Mazda MX-5 Miata rival, this isn't it – the EV-STER is significantly smaller ...

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    Report: Upcoming Honda minicar to feature stop-start technology, 59 mpg     1317211260

    After a four-plus-year hiatus, Honda will resume production of minicars (a.k.a. Kei cars, vehicles with engine displacements of 660 cc or less) for Japan. Coming first for the Honda line-up is a yet-to-be unveiled wagon-type minivehicle that's scheduled to roll off the lines this ...

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    Toyota launches Pixis Space minivehicle in Japan     1317060240

    Over in Japan, Toyota Motor just launched the Pixis Space, the automaker's first-ever passenger minivehicle sold with a Toyota badge and the microvan will soon arrive at more than 200 Toyota dealerships nationwide. Toyota says the Pixis Space, a rebadged Daihatsu Move Conte, has been designed to ...

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    Report: Honda re-entering minicar segment after four-year hiatus     1316091660

    Japanese news outlet Nikkei reports that, after a four-plus-year hiatus, Honda will resume production of minicars (vehicles with engine displacements of 660 cc or less) for Japan. Back in June 2007, Honda ended its minicars (called kei in Japan) production, opting instead to farm out production ...

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    Report: Toyota preps Pixis Space, the automaker's first-ever kei car     1315743900

    Toyota Motor Corporation is set to unveil its first-ever kei car to be sold under its recently launched Pixis sub-brand. The vehicle, called the Pixis Space, will make its official debut in late September. Based on the Daihatsu Move Conte, the Pixis Space will be sold at Toyota dealerships at ...

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    Report: 50.6% of households in Japan now own a small, frugal kei car     1313355060

    Daihatsu e:S – Click above for high-res image gallery
    For the first time since 1986, more than 50 percent of households in Japan own at least one kei-category vehicle. The Japan Mini Vehicles Association (JMVA) began tracking the mini vehicles back in 1986, and this is the highest ...

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    Daihatsu e:S costs only $10,138 in Japan, returns 70.6 mpg (U.S.)     1311613200

    Back at the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show, Toyota subsidiary Daihatsu unveiled the e:S. Dubbed an eco-car that "reveals the future role of mini vehicles," the e:S packs a 660-cc gasoline engine, measures a tick over seven feet and tips the scales at 1,540 pounds. Daihatsu aims to launch the e:S this ...

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    Report: Honda to abandon clean diesel development, focus on hybrids     1279306440

    Regular readers of these pages know that we tend to be big fans of modern diesel engines. Most of the past demons that had plagued oil burners over the years have been exorcised, including rough running, nasty smells, loud operation and narrow power bands. Sadly, though, for whatever reason, ...

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    Quick Spin: Mitsubishi i is a good car with a bad name     1260896160

    Mitsubishi i – Click above for high-res image gallery
    We're looking at a long, nearly straight, almost totally traffic-free downhill. We'd climbed up to the base of the Palm Springs to Idyllwild Ariel Tramway. Our goal was to see how fast Mitsubishi's tiny i could go. We're on the gas, and ...

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    Subaru unveiling plug-in Stella at Hokkaido G8 summit     1214606340

    Subaru has cooked up another electric kei car for me to park in my fantasy green garage, right next to the R1e and Mitsubishi i MiEV I don't currently have. It's a plug-in concept version of the Stella, and it will make its formal debut at next month's G8 summit in Hokkaido, Japan. Five of the cars ...

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