Holiday home car.

[vanvan]

Hi all,

Looking for a bit if advice / recommendation for a small runabout, to be kept at our villa in Cyprus. The car will be left 6-12 weeks between use. Drawn between something like a 2010 Yaris, or something newer, less milage, but a bit more of a unknown, anyone any experience of these??

https://m.bazaraki.com/adv/2091345_daihatsu-mira-0...

Thanks...

[kieranblenk]

It's a Daihatsu, so should be pretty solid and reliable. We actually used to get the older models of these badged as the Cuore and also as Peroduas for a time. I'm sure Daihatsus run on mainly Toyota parts anyway.

[Baldchap]

Daihatsu are Toyota's small car division. They are statistically the most reliable cars on the planet but too low volume in the UK to count on the reliability stats.

[InitialDave]

Huh, bit of a coincidence, I drove one of these (in updated, Toyota badged form) while I was in Japan last month:



Underpinnings are basically the same though. It's a kei car with a 3-pot and CVT, drives just fine as long as you don't mind the higher revs and slight harshness/thrumminess inherent to that when asking for full steam ahead. Less room inside than a Yaris, but it's a physically smaller car, so that's hardly a shock.

If you've driven soemthing like an Aygo or older Mira (or other kei car), it's pretty much like that. Pootling about a town or village is exactly what it's designed for, I think it'd be perfect for your stated use case, but if CVTs really annoy you, this one won't be any different.

[vanvan]

Thanks, I'll give it a serious look over later this week, although I've also just spotted a Jimny, which appeals...