Toyota confirms the next-gen Daihatsu Copen will feature rear-wheel drive and a manual gearbox, signaling a major revival for the tiny roadster.

The Daihatsu Copen is one of my favorite cars that has yet to reach American shores. It’s a tiny, two-seater convertible that’s been on sale since 2002 in places like Japan and Europe, with two ...

Presented last year at the Tokyo Motor Show, the Daihatsu Copen concept was promising to be one of the funkiest kei cars around in 2015 when the production model was expected to arrive on the market.

The Copen, which Americans will know from the Gran Turismo video game, looks like it will enter a third generation, previewed ...

Today, Kirby’s focus has shifted toward following industry news, and he has a sincere passion for one-off and tuned vehicles, car toys (especially LEGO brand,) and anything else even closely related ...

Daihatsu's K-Open concept looks incredible, but like the Toyota brand's Copen predecessors, it's not exactly the sort of product that American buyers seem broadly interested in.

If you've heard of the Daihatsu Copen, you've either got an impressively geeky level of car knowledge, or you're a regular on the PlayStation--where Daihatsu's kei-class sports car has been a regular ...

You are so gorgeous, little Copen, it's making me mad. It's difficult for me to accept that this global pandemic is keeping us apart. We were meant to meet face to face during the 2021 Tokyo Auto ...

Daihatsu left the U.S. market way back in 1992, but the brand is still going strong in Japan. The company is wholly owned by Toyota now and specializes in building kei cars and trucks, a special class ...

Japan's strict kei car regulations, designed to get around some of the country's inherent automotive issues--lack of space, lack of parking, expensive gas--typically breed small, upright boxes where ...

The gang over at Liberty Walk in Japan has turned their hand to the tiny little Japanese two-door kei convertible known as the Daihatsu Copen. The Daihatsu isn't exactly known for raw speed but is ...

Even though we're one of the few publications trying to keep up to date with what's going on in the Japanese car market, this project caught us completely by surprise. It's the updated Daihatsu Copen.