1994 Daihatsu Mira TR-XX Avanzato POV Drive - The Turbo Kei Car Hot Hatch you NEED to Experience 

Thank you to @RansomGarage for letting me rip around in this shockingly quick Kei Car Hot Hatch. And a correction...The sidewall aspect ratio is 60 not 65 (whoops). And thank you Patreon Supporters for making this content possible!

I can feel Marty's excitement even from halfway around the globe.

What I learned about kei-car while driving daily is 1: It’s really easy to park 2: These car has impressive fuel efficiency even these cars are more than 25 year old. I’m driving cappuccino (yes the ABC-trio) in Japan and mine has like 20km/L (47mpg) if you drive around 60km/h (37mph) even though this car has 25-year-old turbo engine. Driving is fun at most speed range.This car zip through the corners and acceleration is good, and you can full throttle it while keeping speed limit.

That turbo sounds like it just finished a refreshing drink

"If you don't love kei cars, you don't love cars" Wise words man!

Love seeing these little Kei cars around. *Love* the blowoff and hiss noise from the tiny turbo! More fun watching these videos than the unobtainium supercars, love seeing the weird stuff.

Gotta love how this car has power windows that go up quicker than the ones on my 97 Miata

My dad had the pickup model of this when I was little, I miss that car 😔

That turbo sound so good looks fun to drive.

Man Kei cars are so fascinating. I really wanna take a FWD hot hatch to the track, not ideal, but seems hell of a lot fun.

YES, YES TED! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR FEATURING MY FIRST RIDE!! ❤️❤️ I literally learnt how to drive on that properly when I was in high school, and it was my car from high school sophomore up until junior year of college. I love almost everything this car projects: small, welcoming car with everything as 90s as it gets! Also, not to mention, a severely underrated car that needs to be in more games with detailed interiors and all (such as Forza and Test Drive series). Also a perfect car to put on the 90s alternative music and just cruise through while shifting gears on a long road by the coast. Thank you, once again, for featuring this car! I so hope this one makes it to more games.

I love the weird, quirky, rare cars you so often have! Especially K cars!

I just started watching your channel yesterday and I love it! You have wonderful personality man, very entertaining to see your drive these things and talk about it.

Im loving the "rawness" of these videos. Love the videos keep them coming!!!

Hi there, Ted. I stumbled on your channel and watched the videos you uploaded. I have to say, for a small but growing channel on RU-vid, your content is top notch quality in my book. As a car enthusiast, I love the fact that you emphasize more of the driving experience than what’s on paper when it comes to the cars you drive (not to mention POV hahaha) and I could say keep it up with the content! 👍🏽👌🏽

Stop exposing me to the presence of kei cars in Mass. I need one now!

As someone who grew up in Canada learning to drive in low powered British cars I am intrigued that you are fascinated by a car with "only" 60 horsepower. The Austin 1100 I learned to drive on was a 48 horsepower car. If that thing had 20 more horses it would have been a rocket. I am enjoying your experience with low horsepower cars. That's all we had in the early to mid sixties unless you moved up to American V8's . These small Japanese cars are real gems. They rev so easily and are lots of fun without going over 100 mph and scaring everyone around you. Keep up the good work.

Keep making these videos man!

This was awesome!

Tqvm Ranson Garage for review this small kei Mira Avanzator,, apparently myself own a same engine kei Mira at my 24 year old kei car. I've swape the engine to my kei car.. Is great to have this review.. 👍

Fell in love and found out about this car when I played Auto Modellista on the PS2. I can't wait to import one.

I have driven a Mira (Cuore in Europe) for 14 years and hope I will for many more years to follow. They're absolutely awesome.

I love this car so much dude, i have 3 of them

I always love Kei Car, especially with that turbo.GBU bro 👍

If u dont love K Cars, u dont love cars! Well said bro..yeaaahhh!

WE WANT MORE OF THIS NOW! 🥺🥺 I want to see this guy driving suzuki cappuccino

The sound is so nice

This look so fun!

I remember that car in gran turismo!

the sound was so good

I love it. Brilliant

This car is cool man I love it

I live around the area!! Its fun to see you drive around those roads.

Indeed this caris in many Gran Turismo games. It was one of the good starting car in GT2, but with luck, there was that 1991 twin turbo Supra you could buy too. Anyway, it's really fun to see video games cars in real life x)

Loveee this car!

Love when you mention Gran Turismo... Brings back so good memories!!!! I actually loved driving them flat out, precisely to get best lap times! Issue is now I want to buy a kei car for fun in the alps... You just made JDM kei cars picking up value 😂

Next the suzuki alto workz

That was just brilliant

The seats are gorgeous

How could someone not have heared of that.....at least if they watch Mighty Car Mods :-P

Great video! You should drive the one with the 3 cylinders engine (like the one on Marty MCM’s Mira) if you can find one. While the 3cyl might not be as smooth as the 4cyl you drove, it actually even happier to rev, a totally different animal.

Omg that spool sound when you give it light throttle at like 4k. I would be doing that all day! *spoooool* *flutter* *spooooooool* *flutututter*

I owned a plus sized version of a kei car sold in the UK as a Suzuki wagon R+, but sold in Japan as the Suzuki solio. That thing was an absolute laugh to drive, but if you got it a bit wrong through a corner it would get annoyed and try and make you crash. It was funny taking it to meets and seeing people's reactions to it doing burnouts and stuff lol. I'd have another one

This has been my dream car since I was 14.

Lol nice I love the super small intercooler piping

This car is breathing like it has asthma.

Mira mantuuuulll... 😁😇👍👍👍 Amaziiing...

My brother got this car from my dad. It was originally 660cc and then my father changed the gearbox for 850cc engine. It was fun little car and practical in South East Asia region. People actually sell some food stall with these! Anyway my brother changed the engine with 1000cc i3 and it was a monster! Lastly, because something is wrong with that car(Idk what, my brother didn't tell me) he changed it back 660cc with a twist. Well actually a turbo. I never driven that but I think it will be fun little car with a boost!

The first gen mira had a turbocharged 2 cylinder option so have fun finding that for me to see you drive...

Marty and Moog would be proud

So which of the Kei cars do you like the best? Also any car you can go full send and be doing 43mph is awesome!

Looks like a fun car to drive.

Wow, with only 60ish hp that little beauty sure does scoot!

I owned this k car. I’ve load it with some performance parts. Bigger turbo. And it’s making 180hp. Around 27psi boost. This thing handle well too, simply change the stock suspension to coilovers, wider rims and tyres. And that gearbox is factory lsd. Not modded

Unrestricted in the UK and sold in limited numbers for Rally Cross Homologation. I had one, the Diahatsu Core (Mira) Avanzato TR-XX R4, 660cc Twin Cam, 16v Turbo, 4 wheel drive, 4 wheel steering and compomotive rally alloys! I've always regretted selling it but after doing a 360 on ice I wanted something with ABS.

Could almost hear the Best Motoring hot version intro going on in my head lol with DK maxing it out at a Touge battle 😃

Ah man I bet that car is a hoot to drive. Reminds me of my '10 mini jcw. Just a little rocket sled. When your c pillar is a blindspot when shoulder checking you know you got a short car

I have a non-turbo 5 door version of this as my first car. No worries about stuck in traffic, can park anywhere, very very eco fuel consumption, cheap spare parts, easy to maintain, almost no blindspot. It is truly a lot of smiles pergallon 🥰 There's also an AWD and another 1.0cc version of this ~

I adore kei cars and plan on buying one soon. My goal is to get one of these or a Opti Club or Dangan ZZ. I just looked up the specs to this car it actually does 0-60 in friggin 8.5 seconds with only 63hp and 74 lb/ft of torque.. that's insane! It does the 1/4 mile in a snappy 17.7 too! I'm impressed as it also has a top speed of around 105mph!! As for Gran Turismo. I'd get golds on all licenses before ever doing a race so my fist cars would be the top dogs from the start haha. Though on my fist playthroughs when I wasn't that good I'd have to buy my starter car. Though it would usually be a 86 MR-2 Supercharged, FC RX-7, MA70 Supra Turbo or Miata etc.

Which place this looks amazing the view so nice

HAHA i'm still riding this car(L502S) in Japan. I love it! by the way, in Japan "TR-XX" called "T R double X"

Love this review 😍😍😍....where can I get one?

ありがとう！最高でした👍

As you pan around this, all i can hear is Gran Turismo 1 music

There is also a 4 wheel drive version of this car. That gotta be the most fun you can have with your pants on!

Mr. Regular and MCM both praised this car, one of my dream cars for sure. See if you can import the AWD model!

とても懐かしい❗️ 今でも健在で 走っていることに嬉しさを覚えます 又軽カーが、がいこくにて 人気あるのが嬉しいんだけど‼️ ありがとうございます。 素晴らしい動画を。

very nice car！！！👍

After racing my Honda Fit on track, I am a huge fan of throwing small hatches around. I would love to drive something like this.

Now you need to drive a Mitsubishi Dangan to complete the Top Gear trio!

you need to come here over the pond

@6:02 LOVE that red Volvo S60.

Tiny Cars are love, tiny cars are life. All my favorite fun-driving cars were tiny.

Sweet. Darn but it’s a mouthful. Ha ha, used to be we called them mini coopers, fiat abarths, Renault 4 turbos

Imagine if car manufacturers actually watch your kei car videos and realize how much market high revving turbocharged cars would have thanks to driver involvement and feel and start making some actual high revving turbocharged cars? Just imagine an 8500rpm turbo Type R

I'm in Thailand right now, I can't believe how many of these are still on the road, specially pick-up "trucks". I've only seen one or two like this one. So far I learned that thai people enjoy installing turbos everywhere, so go figure if it was the real thing or some standard with stickers.

Nice beb 👌

I'm old enough to remember when Daihatsu sold the Charade and the Rocky here in the States.

@Tedward what blow off valve is this running? I would like the same for my L200 TRXX

You know it's a good video when 50% of it is labelled as "spirited driving"

Have you ever come in the Daihatsu Hijet Cargo? It is a KEI Van and interesting car :3

This turbo sounds awesome for a factory car

Half tempted to buy one as my first car what are your thoughts

KANCIL idk but i always thinks that these might be fun to drive, might have to get one for myself heh

This car 502? 512? この時代のアルトワークスも4発ミラも狂ってて、面白かったね。 鉄板は薄く、完全にブレーキが負けてて、まさにかっ飛び。

Honestly this would be fun to drive in the city. Real head turner too

3:37 "shots fired shots fired" (if you know you know)

when you got the chance, try the horsepower war era kei car back in the early 70 when they pushed tiny 360cc engine to the max

U should of seen the goasts I had wen I entered the motorway at over 160kmhr in the fwd base moddle as we fully flying on road haha slightly sliding and car shimying and just fully lit

My grandad loved these things we used to work on it an i never knew what was going on i was 5 biker mice from mars never told u how to bulid a motorcycle enigma. Mite have been a skoda idk but small an light was how we learned engineering my dad had a lotus 7 he could barely run

In malaysia we use to put this engine in our perodua kancil car..and can go to 200hp if tune well..

request pov drive for.. Daihatsu Midget or Reliant Regal (mr.bean rival) if you have any source that owns it..

I'm dying to get one of these bad bois but one from 1990

the engine sounds surprisingly close to a K20

I need me one of these

THIS is the Daihatsu Mira...

In Malaysia it is called perodua kancil.

4:10 the chipmunk isn’t scared. He’d WRECK that Daihatsu.

turbo sounded like it was eating the tiny souls of every squirrel it runs over

Is any Engine Tuning possible Up to 100 hp maybe?