Daihatsu Fellow Max Hard Top Coupe Kei sports car Goes for a Drive
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- The Daihatsu Fellow Max Hard Top Coupe Kei car was a rare frameless/pillarless sports Kei car
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What a cool car. I think the new house builders had this in mind when building the garages.
The innovation of Japanese car companies has always been outstanding, as exemplified by the Kei cars. Top video!
I had a 500cc 2 stroke Kei car in the 80's. Hella fun and perfectly adequate in a CBD (even today). Hard to get here in Au now.
Yep, acceleration is measured not in seconds or even minutes but rather by comparing with continental drift. 🤣
"I'm going to ingnoe the Hyundai". I love this little car. So bonkers in all ways. If i was behind this little car, I would have held back and enjoyed the charm and view.
Hi-youn-dai. :D
Looks quite a strange little car but back in 1970s was probably well received , very similar in design , style to a Datsun Cherry 100 which I do remember seeing everywhere back then and yeah I’m really that old 😉. Great find Matt and probably still a good little city car 🤔 in a very small city 😂 obviously 👍🏻.
Ha! My grandpa had a cherry 100, bright green with high-back seats, never broke down on him 😊
exactly what I thought.
44 hp is pretty impressive, considering that that's about what you got from a 1000cc BL A-series in the 80s
It's amazing what Japanese manufacturers had to do to comply with the strict Kei car regulation. Certainly some outside the box thinking required, quite incredible the amount of horsepower they were get out of that tiny power plant. Daihatsu were always great doing these quirky cars that were always surprisingly good. It's a shame they left the UK Market.
It needs to be outside the box, because the box is sooo small 😊
Would love to see a mk1 Sierra on here! Can’t find a test drive of one anywhere! :)
Daihatsu have made some very interesting cars and this is up there with them. I always look forward to these reviews. I thought I had a reasonable knowledge of '70s cars but you keep finding the ones I've never heard of. I love this car for it's unusual engineering and original design. Where's the originality in the motor industry today?
Originality has been legislated out of car design these days. Mind you that means cars are now safer (for both passengers and other road users and pedestrians), cleaner, and easier to use. I can see both the good and bad in automotive progress.
Yes, there's no fun at all.
Smart Car? Renault Twizzy?
@@lotusgroup123 smart 20 years ago
Twizy 10 years. I rest my case
Suzuki 600,two door coupe.What a fun little car that was.Sweet memories of a long gone past.....
Well i think it's a COOL car !!!
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Hey i'm sure between 1993 - 2003 Daihatsu made a Charade (small hatchback) ... it was a 3 cylinder diesel turbo
and achieved 100 mpg ???
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Tiny little cars like that look so great ... and all they need is a tiny A/C system to make the car "happy" !!! (lol)
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Super little car !!!
BIG SMILE !
Yep..I rented a Charade once ..it reminded me of my lawnmower.
A few ''sticky moments'' guaranteed .
In the same model of Charade they also did a 3-cyl petrol turbo GTti which somehow squeezed 99hp from its 993cc engine!
They did the three-cylinder diesel Charade much earlier than 1993, my first driving lessons back when I turned 17 in 1987 were in such a car. Fantastic little thing and surprisingly capable for such a small engine.
@@TheOracle65 Hi mate !!!
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Oh my word that sounds BRILLIANT !!! ... lol
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All the cars today are just so BORING !!!
BIG SMILE
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@@planestrainsdogsncars4336 Ah buddy it's the fuel consumption that is great in my opinion !!!
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More reviews like this please, was brilliant ! Next up a Bond Bug 👍😂
Love a pillerless coupe but be careful because the SUV crowd won't see you from their lofty chairs.
Love the wacky double and triple barrelled name for these super wee Kei Cars.
This feature is now officially my number one FAVOURITE on all of CZcams.
Only the Japanese could come up with a car called "Fellow Max" and I love it. Great little car with the pillarless design. Reminds me of my 1981 Nissan Skyline 240K GT. Fun times.
How did I miss this last year?! Love this, the brother of the one Ian drove in New Zealand.
I absolutely love JDM Daihatsu cars, they really are cut above the competition in the realm of the Kei car..most uk car freaks forget, or never knew, that a Daihatsu was the first Japanese car to be officially sold in the UK.
Such a cute wee car! Well done finding that one, Matt. I can certainly see why they never made it here to Canada. Great fun indeed.
Or the US.
They can be imported into the US now.
Yes indeed, 1973 Chevrolet Caprice vs Diahatsu Fellow Max in an accident would not be a good outcome.
It would have been great for parking in the city though.
Daihatsu Fellow Max vs snowed over Trans Canada Highway in Montreal wouldn’t have worked either.
1970s Japanese two-strokes often had oil-injection. My Suzuki GT550 (which is a 3-cyl, 544cc- bigger than this!) had the same setup, it's this blue oil that is poured in and it uses kind of a lot, and makes a lot of smoke!
The K car that I used to see here in Greece (80s) was a 600cc 4 stroke Subaru (Rex?) with the engine at the back. Left hand drive of course so it was an export edition.
The radio isn't short wave, SW means switch. SW/VOL is the volume control and on/off switch, you turned the radio off by turning the volume knob all the way counterclockwise until you felt a click. Turning it clockwise switched it on.
By the looks of the frequencies on the dial, it's a medium wave (MW or AM) radio.
Definitely AM.
I wanted to say "south west" and claim it was basic sat nav!
@@frothe42 it's the same really, MW or medium wave refers to the frequency band, AM or amplitude modulation refers to the transmission technology. Technically speaking every radio station on LW/MW/SW is transmitting in AM but AM radio usually refers to medium wave or MW. Likewise, FM radio usually refers to VHF.
(I am sounding pretty much like the guy from Technology Connections...)
@@volvo480 Thank you very much for the clarification, I appreciate that!
I know radio frequencies are different in the UK 🇬🇧 and elsewhere verses the US where I am located. But looking at the dial of the Daihatsu is reminiscent of Japanese imports of the 1970's!
The front is like a mini first generation Celica.
What a great machine. I love kei cars. They really are difficult to find here in the UK. Which is why I have got myself a K10 Micra.
A new vehicle that is out of the ordinary, that you present to us, bravo! It seems that, for a long time, the Japanese kei-cars category has been the only one to continue to offer unique, original vehicles (until today), and with personality ... Japanese singularity that we unfortunately do not know in our western countries invaded by anonymous and uniform SUVs. Small for the city, it makes sense though. Very pretty and exciting little car from the 70's anyway!
What a great little car, before Ian from the Hubnut channel did his video on the fellow Max in Australia I’d never seen or heard of the fellow max, I also didn’t know the Japanese made 2 stroke powered cars in the 70’s.
Apart from it being tiny it’s probably a simple car to own and maintain yourself.
Thanks for the vid Matt, it was great to see one that made it to the uk.
The style of the car is really nice, making a classy kei car - and then the engine starts up!
Fab looking little car, so stylish and the dashboard and steering wheel are lovely. SW/Vol Tone is short for Switch, Volume (you twist the knob to switch it on and adjust the volume) and the outer ring is the Tone adjustment. Short Wave? You crazy fellow. In 1973 I owned a 1972 model L38 Fellow Max 2 door sedan. I still have the brochure. Incredibly fun little car. I did take it round a race track and did a dirt circuit event. It leaned a lot but was great to drive. They are worth a lot of money now if you can find one, which is almost impossible. I can't believe you found this car to test, amazing. Thank you. 😊👍
I was going to say SW was South West and claim it was an early sat nav... I cant believe you did actually take one of these around a track!! This took the owner a long time to find
@@furiousdriving Sat Nav, that's very funny. Yes, Oran Park in Sydney before they turned it into a housing estate and Amaroo Park in Sydney which suffered the same fate. Both were club events (Honda Car Club of NSW) so just me on my own trailing blue smoke and probably the slowest time of the day. Fantastic fun though and fortunately I have photos to prove it. I tried a dirt circuit event that had a big puddle and as soon as I hit it, the car chugged and stalled, rats!
Absolutely fantastic - its like a scale model !
I love this Daihatsu!
Very 70's.
Love the sound of the engine!
Very nice review!
I agree with you. No one even notices unusual cars anymore. Although I made sure a guy driving a Wolseley 18/22 past me the other day knew I had seen him.
A kei car we get a lot in Sydney when they brought them to Australia they would get larger motors
What an amazing little jewel of a car! Great find!!! Thanks for yet another wonderful video my friend! Greetings from Florence!
Hi Matt, watching this video made me smile considering how small it is,the wheels look like they are off a Vespa.must be tight in the back seat to sit.but fun.
A colleague at work in the mid-to-late 90s had the *dinkiest* 4WD Daihatsu you could almost pick up and put in your pocket. Dunno what model it was, but I bet he had the last laugh in winter...
The radio is MW (AM) only. The SW means switch for on/off rather than short wave. Note how it’s combined with the volume control, with the tuning knob on the other side. You used the knob to tune in a station, then pulled out a preset button and pushed it back in hard. This saved that station on that preset button.
Everyone should drive cars like this, the world would be a better place.
Love seeing the eclectic mix of cars on your channel, cute car!
What a sweet little car this is! 😍 It actually looks very well styled. Typically Japanese at the front but dare I say - Italian - from the rear quarters.
Closest thing we had in the UK to this was the Suzuki Whizzkid.
Ideal car for Japan's conurbations.
I drove something very like that all around North Wales in 1981 trying to sell it for a mate, nobody would buy it for enough to cover my train fare home!
Kei cars are so much fun! Unfortunately I never owned one. The closest I got was two one litre 3 cylinder Daihatsu Charades back in the 1980's. Before those I owned a two door pillarless hardtop coupe Toyota Corolla. Hey, and it was Mustard Gold with black stripes on the side! Cool!
That's such a nice little coupé, I want one. And put it in the trunk of my Benz as a tender.
Crouching driver hidden tea shelf?
At 6 foot 2 I’d barely get comfortable in that thing but it would indeed be a riot to drive!
What a brilliant little car! Ibet following that 2 stroke smells wonderfull ? !!
Thanks for sharing such an unusual car. 👍👍👍
What a fun little car.... Looks like you enjoyed yourself as Hubnut would say #powerlessismore.
In this case, Very much yes!
"I say, so you're the Daihatsu fellow. Well, I'm the Datsun Chap. Over there is my friend the Toyota Old Bean".
I still think my favourite though is one that HubNut tested, the Toyita Estima Lucida Charme Pleasure Wagon with Joyful Canopy. 😎
Reminds me of a miniature version of the already diminutive Datsun 100a (Cherry). I really find the Kei car world an interesting one! 👌
It makes you happy, what better compliment for that little car :)
Jeco clocks where used in 70s Toyotas. The whole dashboard looks like it’s been lifted out of a 70s Toyota.
Probably correct since Toyota owns 51% of Daihatsu.
That's a wonderful little car, looks like it's on Cheshire plates or at least North West plates, would be awesome with maybe a bike engine transplant to make it keep up with modern traffic but I would love to own that car
I SO agree with you!
What about…….750 2stroke Kawasaki engine (got to be a screaming 2stroke:)
Many years ago had a 1993 model tx I think,-1,3 Charade-90 hp .Prob the most reliable car I ever had, and fast if u wanted it to be .
I love the look of that, wouldn't want to drive it as a daily though! Maybe a weekend town car.
Cool little car I just love Kei car's we should have them in UK as your first car after passing your test.👍
Now, that's a nice looking, nice handling small car!
We never had them in Australia. But we did have the Honda Scamp and the Honda Zot. Both powered by a 360cc four stroke motor, I have owned both. No torque but would rev to 9000 rpm. Sounded like a racing angry motor bike. The looks of the Daihatsu are the same as the Honda Zot except for the rear, which was unique. Unfortunately they released the Honda Civic at the same time.which was more suitable for our wide open country roads.
I bet the smell of that engine was awesome.
Another great video. :)
it was unique in every way!
What a great little car, looks really good and cute!
Its brilliant..I want one!
Welcome back after the mini-break.
thank you!
One of my favourite channels, you source some really interesting cars, great viewing 👍🏻
Matt, for those Japanese language labels you can use the Lens feature of Google on your phone’s camera and the translation instantly appears on the screen. I’ve got two JDM cars I imported and I use the Lens tool all the time.
oh yeah, I should have thought of that!
Absolutely adorable, I love that car!
What a cool thing. I love the Honda Z Coupé, they were excellent things. The 2 stroke is a real test of your senses though.
ear plugs might be needed on a long drive..
Nice little car
I also Daihatsu owner , small one ( kei car ) like this one , Daihatsu Ceria ( Perodua Kancil or Daihatsu Nippa )
I have to say that I love to own it and drive it
This is as mad as a box of frogs, and all the more adorable for it! The Suzuki Whizz Kid is so similar. Great review as always Matt!
I LOVE the Suzuki SC100 "Whizz Kid"! But having compared both of these stylish cars, the Suzuki really is a lot more refined.My friend had one from new.It was like a 4-seat sports car, with 4 individual seats, that hugged you like rally seats. The handling was like a sportscar too, so it was really a 4 seater sports car, that was as sporty as it looked! Of course it had a REAL engine, unlike this one, at 1000cc, and (gasp!) FOUR cylinders.,None of your scrap 2 cylinders from the past, or indeed 3 cylinders like today!
I thought it was a Cherry 100 at first glance at the thumbnail, strangely advanced in some areas apart from the engine & performance! I can't help thinking the doors look like MK1 Fiesta?!
That looks incredibly modern
Wow! I knew about the sedan version. Driven that. But had know idea that there was ever a pillarless coupe. Thanks,for,sharing
What a cool car ,dosent have to be fast to be fun 😎
Fabulous little box of fun! Those tombstone seats look a lot like those in my Aygo Platinum, which has more than a hint of Kei about it in general.
Something very endearing about that car.
Old, small and slow. Add to that an engine that sounds like a sowing machine. Utterly ridiculous, I love it lol!!!!
Thanks for this enthusiastic review of an adorable vintage kei car! Now I want one too :)
Fun review - although I hope the owner doesn't mind too much if I say that this is the kind of classic car I'm glad someone else has to live with rather than me!
I think the engine is a bit tired as it should go past 100 km/h or 60 mph. This might explain the gap between 3rd and 4th gear. But what a fun car to look at, and to drive. Same crashworthiness as a 2CV I guess.
The engine itself is fine, but it needed new reed valves as the original stainless steel ones were starting to break up. It's now got some custom made carbon fibre reeds in it and feels about twice as fast as before. Much more torque and will happily cruise at 100kph now. Also now makes much less smoke when it's cold!
@@eddierattley9329 that's great news, just a few valves replaced and the engine is back to its full glory. Kei cars are a marvelous piece of Japanese engineering.
I do REALLY like this car!
I have been thinking for years of naming my punk rock band "banana peel aeroflot", but after watching this video, it seems I will have to come up with something else. Darnit.
'fraud so, far too derivative!
Matt, if you wonder why this has so few views, it's possibly because CZcams may have failed to tell your subscribers - I only saw it today after the DKW video.
How to pretend you’re driving a BTCC racer at 30mph. Very cool little car like all kei cars. So much variety in such a small footprint
What a tiny car that is, really only suitable for cities. But it's lovely nonetheless, the Japanese car-culture is really a world apart from ours. This is the content I personally love the most on your channel, the test drives of cars that I have scarcely ever heard of. I can remember that Suzuki sold a little coupé like this one around 1980 briefly in Europe too, but with a bigger engine as the kei car-rules were a Japan-only thing - the cervo/SC100.
We need more K cars.
Use the principles of those to push dev of smaller, cheaper electric cars.
What a fun, fascinating car. Nice vid. :)
A sign of a true coupe: pillarless windows
I have the successor of this car, the Max Cuore L40.. I hope I can find brake parts so mine can drive again
Good luck finding those parts
Competitor to Honda N Coupe, which was 4 stroke.
Great little car! Great video, Matt! 👌
Thanks! 👍
it was toned down from previous generation which had SS spec version which had whooping 40ps from 360cc,back when there is no gentlemen agreement on horsepower
Looks like a miniature Datsun Cherry
Cute - and never seen one before.
Was just playing GranTurismo 6 and this car popped up in one of the “Historic Vehicle” info panels. An odd coincidence.
I, too, have this fellow max car, mine is yellow
Very cute Kei car Matty 👍👍👍
The later Kei cars that were imported to the UK and Europe had a larger engine (by 100cc or so) than home market ones, so were not technically a Kei as did not conform to the Japanese regulations. I can imagine buzzing around Tokyo in one was a scream, from fun or fear!
yes, that was quite common to give them a bigger engine for export, still small compared to the rivals here!
wow, that gap between 3rd and 4th is huge, makes 4th almost unusable. Makes me think the engine is out of tune or coked up exhaust ports maybe
The imports you can import is endless these days 👍 bmc 1800 ute there's an idea 💡 nice little fun car 🚗 catching up on your last 2 video's 🤓👍
BMC Utes are fun aren't they! Wouldnt mind one for a laugh
@@furiousdriving not a laugh but something nobody else in the UK would have ie brummies bostin ar 🤓👍
Toyota owns 51% of the stocks in Daihatsu, so many parts like the girbox is probably build by them.
Looks like the Suzuki Ignis' grandad!
I’d have one of those in a hot minute! I think you’d mobbed as well; everyone would want to know what it is!
I always love Japanese cars with silly names. The Honda Wonderful Open-hearted Wagon proves that
How about the Mazda Bongo Friendee? The Suzuki Mighty Boy? Honda Joy Machine (AKA HR-V) Or the Datsun Cedric?
@@BungleBare Here are some more:
Mitsubishi Lettuce, Nissan Homy Super Long, Mazda Light Dump, Honda Life Dunk, Isuzu Mysterious Utility Wizard.....
mysterious utility wizard is my favourite
@@furiousdriving Honda Light Dump is another good one
I always wanted a Suzuki Whizzkid.
Totally need a Daihatsu Muffin Top
Im going on ebay for one now
Japanese Trabant lol.
Great video, but where was the windscreen wiper action!