Cars - For Car Enthusiasts

Practical depends on who you are, right? :)

Imagine you work as a saké distributor in Tokyo, living out of a little shop right on the streetfront with your home as an apartment above.

Your morning is spent shuttling bottles between your shop and little mom-and-pop restaurants in the surrounding neighbourhoods.

You have to carry heavy loads while navigating narrow streets full of pedestrians and bicycles, and park for 10 minutes at a time in places where there is nowhere proper to park - all while not blocking the street.

When you get home in the afternoon the only place you can put your truck is the alleyway between your shop and the neighbour Ryousuke's place, who runs the florist next door. The alleyway is only 6 feet wide, but that's no problem because your truck is only 4-foot-three.

Of course, back in the '70s you used to do all this with a little Honda Super-Cub motorbike! You laugh to yourself remembering how comically high you stacked those crates of bottles lashed together with rope on your pannier rack. But you're not as young as you used to be, and after that accident in '98 your wife made you swear never to get on a bike again. You don't argue with your wife, because she's always right.

Anyway - just as well you have your trusty Daihatsu Midget II, the most practical truck you could imagine.