All Daihatsu YRV reviews

Daihatsu's 'Young Recreational Vehicle' may not have had the nation scrambling for their chequebooks the first time around, but that doesn't mean it isn't a sound used purchase. With a weak reputation to fall back on, demand isn't huge, yet you're buying into a manufacturer with a superb reputation for reliability and innovation. Think of it as a cut-price Toyota Yaris and you won't be too far off the mark.

The YRV was introduced to the British public at the 2000 Birmingham Motor Show a...

Daihatsu's 'Young Recreational Vehicle' may not have had the nation scrambling for their chequebooks the first time around, but that doesn't mean it isn't a sound used purchase. With a weak reputation to fall back on, demand isn't huge, yet you're buying into a manufacturer with a superb reputation for reliability and innovation. Think of it as a cut-price Toyota Yaris and you won't be too far off the mark.

The YRV was introduced to the British public at the 2000 Birmingham Motor Show a...

Daihatsu's 'Young Recreational Vehicle' may not have had the nation scrambling for their chequebooks the first time around, but that doesn't mean it isn't a sound used purchase. With a weak reputation to fall back on, demand isn't huge, yet you're buying into a manufacturer with a superb reputation for reliability and innovation. Think of it as a cut-price Toyota Yaris and you won't be too far off the mark.

The YRV was introduced to the British public at the 2000 Birmingham Motor Show a...

Daihatsu's 'Young Recreational Vehicle' may not have had the nation scrambling for their chequebooks the first time around, but that doesn't mean it isn't a sound used purchase. With a weak reputation to fall back on, demand isn't huge, yet you're buying into a manufacturer with a superb reputation for reliability and innovation. Think of it as a cut-price Toyota Yaris and you won't be too far off the mark.

The YRV was introduced to the British public at the 2000 Birmingham Motor Show a...

"In far less time than it takes you to say 'I have relinquished control of my vehicle', drive is shared between the back and front wheels."

Niche marketing is a funny old game. Sometimes it seems as if manufacturers cobble up new market sectors just to keep us on our toes. For years Subaru offered the Justy four wheel drive supermini, a model the British public took to like dengue fever and Daihatsu are having a crack at convincing us that our urban scoots need a drivetrain more suited ...

"The YRV Turbo 130's exterior treatment is not for the retiring"

If you're the sort of person who catalogues their CDs in strict alphabetical order, always insists on the regulation meat and two veg in the evening and spends their holidays on the Norfolk Broads, we have a suspicion the Daihatsu YRV Turbo 130 may not be your sort of thing. One deeply conservative colleague of mine refused to countenance it on the basis that 'the side windows don't even line up'. If, on the other hand, yo...

"Some of the clever packaging ideas that were trialed on Daihatsu's mini-MPVs have found their way into the YRV?"

In case you were wondering what YRV stood for, it's Young Recreational Vehicle. Similarly, the Mitsubishi FTO is a Fresh Touring Origination and the Toyota MR2 is the Midship Runabout 2. Bids to 'Europeanise' their wares usually backfire spectacularly on Japanese manufacturers in an irrevocable clash of tastes and cultures.

A sticker on a friend's imported MR2 highligh...