"It's easy to want to drive one of these cute kei cars. It's another thing to put your family in them and travel down the highway at 70 mph," one expert said.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40818280

If there’s anything we should take from Japan, it’s treating cars like second class citizens behind transit instead of the other way around. The cute tiny cars are more a side effect of that.

  • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zipEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    Nah, i frequently see a 1000cc non-turbo car goes at around 100/110kmph on highway. They’re pretty much capable to do that. Not stable though.

    • 31ank@ani.socialEnglish
      9·
      2 days ago

      I know someone with a Ford Ka+ (1l/1000cc with around 80hp), can easily do 140km/h without feeling unstable. But it definitly is bigger than a kei-car, and I think kei-cars are limited to 660cc?

      • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zipEnglish
        10·
        1 day ago

        I’m mostly refer to daihatsu mira, a kei car that sometime fit with 850cc and 1000cc engine. Narrower than ford ka, which explain the stability. Very popular in my country at the time. Used to drive the L200 with 660cc engine and it’s pretty wobbly on 120kmph, and you can feel the turbulence when someone overtaking you. Fun car though, great for city driving, parking with this is never a problem.