Jul 15, 2023
The Little Daihatsu That Could.
In the late 80’s Daihatsu took their shot at rally racing with their third generation Daihatsu Charade GTti. Powered by a small 1.0 liter turbo engine making only 105 horsepower, these little three door hatches did pretty well. In 1988, at the Safari rally, the GTti took 2nd in its class and 12th overall. In 1989 at the Lombard RAC rally, depicted on the second slide, it took 4th place in its class and 32nd overall. And finally in 1990, the Charade took 1st and 2nd in its class at the Safari rally, 9th and 10th overall out of 59 contestants!
