
Daihatsu took just about everyone by surprise last week at the 2023 Japan Mobility Show where it unveiled a conceptual Copen. Not the adorable front-wheel-drive kei car we've known since 2002 when the first generation was unveiled but a much larger vehicle with rear-wheel drive. Moving away from its kei car origins also meant the engineers were given the freedom to install an engine larger than the 658cc used by the current production model.