(Updated 2/12/2026) How’s this for a CCenterfold? Yes, ladies and gentlemen, today the Curbside ClassiXXX Cabaret and Revue is going to reveal a well-kept saucy secret from the Far East. She just turned 18 (we hope), she’s up for anything and she will bear all for your viewing pleasure. Give a big hand for Miss Daihatsu and keep the other hand to yourselves.
Yes, she’s pixelated. Well, she is Japanese. They have strict laws about this stuff. Yes, I realize you may not be in Japan right now, but she is. Tell you what, though: if you donate a modest fee to our pay site, you will be given full membership and unlimited access to crystal clear photos of Miss Daihatsu. Go ahead, we’ll wait for you. Oh, you must be over 18, by the way.
Thank you for your generosity. Here’s our end of the deal. Miss Daihatsu in full living colour. What a profile, huh? Nothing like a petite four-door body to get one’s juices flowing, so to speak. But let’s not get over-excited, gents. And no peeking at the underside, please. This is a classy joint.
Miss Daihatsu was previewed at the 1997 Tokyo Motor Show and went into production in late 1999 on the Mira platform. She is therefore a FWD kei car and has a 659cc 3-cyl. with either a 5-speed manual or a 4-speed auto (column shift). Turbo and 4WD versions were available, too. Miss Daihatsu’s engine may be small, but it is well tuned and eager to please.
However, the main attraction was – of course – her luscious body. She thought it was nice out, so she left it out all day: visible bolts on bottom panels front and rear, door hinges exposed for all to see, unconcealed B-pillar shamelessly taunting passersby. Miss Daihatsu has no compunction about this wanton exhibitionism. She is the way her creators made her, so why hide anything?
Naked by name, au naturel by nature – but with sophistication, of course. Even in a full-frontal shot like this one, our Daihatsu is not obscene like the ’58 Edsel. Looks like she was waxed recently, too. Seems someone has a sugar daddy taking care of these little details.
Real life wasn’t exactly a bed of roses for our featured model. Sales were kind of on the slow side, oddly enough. Production was halted in November 2003 and the last units were sold by April 2004. Just under 95,000 were made, which was disappointing. Unfortunately, it seems Japanese punters were a bit too shy to hit the streets buck Naked. They should have tried selling those in Germany.
With its midget-Humvee looks and its enticing nameplate, this Daihatsu could have been a hit. Alas, it was a bit of a flop and the concept was not renewed for a second generation. So that’s it, folks – the deed is done, the show is over and the performer is leaving the pole. It’s Valentine’s Day, so it might be time to go back to the old Honda Life (rhyming slang), who is waiting for you patiently in your driveway. At least, you can bookmark this post and go back to ogle a few Naked pics if you fall on hard times.
O dear, only to be watched when you are alone? Maybe it is time for CC to mark off an Adults Only section 🙂
Loved the description!
Those doors – clever to use the same for front and rear. It even does not look that bad. Has this ever been done before (or after)? I find it hard to think of another example.
In 1966, AMC released the Project IV show cars. One of these was the original AMX concept. Two others were the Cavalier and the Vixen, which showed off the concept of interchangeable doors, fenders, hood, and decklid. The right front door was the same as the left rear door, and vice versa on the Cavalier. The doors swapped side to side on the two door Vixen. The hood was the same as the decklid. The result was really awkward on the four door, but not too bad on the two door.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/justice-dept-wont-charge-andrew-mccabe-the-former-fbi-official-who-authorized-the-investigation-of-president-trump/2020/02/14/8ab3aac0-4f48-11ea-bf44-f5043eb3918a_story.html
I don’t think that this is the link that was intended…
I always found it surprising these were relative flops in the Kei segment in their day. Just a tad bit too ahead of their time for that rugged industrial look I suppose. Now that everything is a “crossover” it’s easy to take for granted how different the Naked was next to a Move. That said, the new Taft is extremely similar in concept and execution to what the Naked was at the time:
Yup, although they’re only bringing out the Taft because the Suzuki Hustler has been a big hit and their initial attempt to compete, the Daihatsu Cast Activa, didn’t make much of a dent.
I have lust in my heart for this one! LOL! 🙂
Jeep Wrangler(4-door) and Gladiator are likely the only non-commercial/industrial vehicles in production today with fully exposed B-pillar and exposed door hinges. But even they don’t have shared lower door panels front and rear.
Same door front and rear on VW 181.
The JDM offers so much variety That’s a beautiful color. Thankfully it lacks the obscene ‘58 Edsel front end!
This design looks functional (I don’t think I’ve seen dual glove boxes before), but the door hinges and exposed bolts makes it look like it’s trying too hard to look rugged or something it isn’t. It reminds me a little bit of the Dodge Caliber. I can understand the low sales, overall it’s kind of …meh.
I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you! Smut and depravity! Won’t someone think of the impressionable children? You can’t keep them down on the farm after they’ve seen Naked cars. Next they’ll be dating Jaguars and Corvettes, and all is lost.
this would be an excellent vehicle for street parking here in nyc.
Vintage.es has a new feature on a plus-size “Daihatsu” that was, shall we say, transbrandual. When Saab was developing their new 99, they first built a fat 96, using the time-tested Morris trick. (Saw it in half, insert wideness.) As the styling developed, they labeled the wide prototype Daihatsu. I doubt that they fooled anyone.
https://www.vintag.es/2020/02/saab-99-test-mules.html
Well, at least Diahatsu didn’t give us a Plus-Size Naked…
Loved this from start to finish. Thanks for the laugh!
LOL as always Tats
Very nice, T87! I myself caught up with a lighter-skinned version of the same in the back corner of a parking lot when I was over there, but mine was fully shaved (of badges) so I wasn’t quite sure what I was looking at…:-) Last year it was probably under-aged so a good thing I zipped my jacket a bit tighter and went back to my room empty-handed. I guess it’s OK to share a pic at this later date…
My younger son used to call my car the NoSexBox. This would be a suitable upgrade.
Presumably he then spoke from a wealth of inexperience, given that there is far more room upwards and downwards and alongwards in a darkened xB than in, say, the Ferrari California or Porsche 356 Speedster types more commonly romaticised as the wheels likely to lead to such climactic repleteness, and anyway, in a phonetically-correct way, it’s really the ExBox, which implies a rather different (and buried) and unquestionably illegal sort of climatic and final repleteness for the (now former) partner and xBox (though to be entirely fair to him, that would really then be the NoSexWithExBox-xBox, which is not what he said).
Quite right he spoke from inexperience, as I pointed out to him that his mother and I had utilized its roomy interior for just such purposes at least once. He was speaking from a typical teenage perspective, in that the xBox had no sex appeal, that it would never attract a willing partner. I wouldn’t know about things like that, having never had a problem with that sort of thing regardless of what I drove back in the day, or nothing at all. I
Hitchhiking often resulted in more than one kind of ride.
Kids these days.
I simply cannot understand the direction this site is taking. Nothing but smut and innuendo, first the “In and Out” post just the other day, and now this.
It is as demeaning as it is unnecessary.
A perfectly clean and factually-focused review, Mr Tatra, could simply have said that though the Daihatsu Naked resembled a big box, it in fact had five openings, was easy to get going, lasted for ages, and was very common, if rarely seen in public, and thus one whose abilities were mostly enjoyed by those on the inside.
Why such information was not presented says – sadly but subconsciously – a great deal more about you than it does the car, Mr Tatra, despite your nice tits.
Thanks for a good laugh, great writing. I wonder what is going on with the parking paddle under the car, why its in operation when the car is already parked. I thought it would only be used to prevent others using the parking spot. Is it an aid to prevent the car being stolen?
Curbside has rapidly become MUST SEE TV for me. There was that full on Bose expose, and now this…
I’d like one, but they all come stripped.
What about that sexy contraption under the Naked car? Something to avoid others from using your parking space, I presume?
Common to pay-to-park spaces in Japan; pull up and over the flap into an open spot. When you are ready to leave, you pay at an automated kiosk that has you enter your space number. Once the transaction is complete, the flap at your spot lowers for a short period of time allowing you to return to your vehicle and leave the spot.
It’s like a Kei-G-Wagen…