2000 Daihatsu Move EFI DOHC 2WD, PS, PW, PL, AC, Airbags, Automatic · 11,972 mi

If a kei car is what you are after, start with this 2000 Daihatsu Move EFI DOHC 2WD, PS, PW, PL, AC, Airbags, Automatic — the paint is down as Passo White. It has an automatic box. Identified by chassis number L900S-1028918.

Specification summary

• Year: 2000
• Make: Daihatsu
• Model: Move EFI DOHC 2WD, PS, PW, PL, AC, Airbags, Automatic
• Chassis code: L90
• Transmission: Automatic
• Odometer: 11,972
• Engine: EF-VE 660cc 3 Cylinder EFI
• Colour: Passo White
• Chassis number: L900S-1028918
• Body type: Kei Car
• Stock reference: BUC53089

On the L900-series Move

The L900-series Move of 1998 to 2002 is Daihatsu's tall kei hatchback from the generation that defined the format. Engines run from the twin-cam EF-VE to the turbocharged, intercooled EF-DET, all of them 659cc triples. The Move's entire design argument is interior height within the fixed kei footprint, and it is the car most responsible for that shape becoming the default in Japan.

It carries 11,972 miles — about 19,300 km, the figure the gauge was actually calibrated in. That is at the lower end of the spread for Daihatsu kei vehicles leaving the Japanese market.

The configuration

A kei passenger car is built to the same statutory ceiling as a kei truck — 660cc, 3.4 metres, 1.48 metres — but with the whole package turned toward people rather than payload. Japanese manufacturers compete hard inside those fixed limits, which is why kei cars are so much roomier inside than their footprint suggests.

In the $8,000 to $12,000 band a kei car is normally either a turbocharged specification, a four-wheel-drive one, or a model that was built in genuinely small numbers. The plain hatchbacks sit well below this.

Getting it to you

At 2000 it is past the 25-year mark, which is the line that decides whether a Japanese-market vehicle can be imported at all. We handle the import and title paperwork, and delivery is available to all fifty states. The asking price is $8,995 — contact us to reserve it.