Daihatsu Charade GTti

Daihatsu Charade GTTI has a very nice design on the outside and also in the inside..great performance, is not power steering so that's the only bad thing about it, and very affordable.

Overall rating about my car is 8. i love my car a lot cause it's very practical for me especially living in the mountain area.

I've been using my gtti Daihatsu Charade. This little monster do have a lot of kicks. I've beaten some 1.3 and 1.6 turbo charge with this monster and they wonder how the hell that this little engine can go faster than what they have right now.

Last but not least this engine is very hard to find nowadays.

I proudly owned a Daihatsu Charade and ran it for 10 years, it brought a smile to my face every day.

I well remember the morning drive from Sutton to Dorking on a 40 mile hour stretch. Jags and Beamers used to chase me from the traffic lights but were no match for the GTti's initial acceleration, they inevitably got snapped by speed cameras when trying to catch up!

It was a sad day for my sons and me when I had to retire it.

I think if you find the HD Demotoso engine 92Kw swap for it, it would make it a much better car. Or even the 1.6 Daihatsu applause engine with NA mods or turbo charging it. It would make it into a great sleeper.

I have just bought a Jap modified GTti with 140 Bhp. I've boosted it up to 1.5 bar and it even wheel spins in fourth. Last night I blew away a 200bhp starlet Gt turbo!! Had it dynoded and it spat out 207hp @ the flywheel.

The Daihatsu Charade GTti is the best car that Japan has came out because in 90's. A few and very expensive cars were twin cam and turbo. So, until here we have:993cc,turbo,intercooler,two cams,12 valves AND........100ps from ONLY 993cc.

Overall the Daihatsu Charade GTti can really can bring a lot of fun. A small car can really outrun a lot of other cars. I booast up to 1.5 bar, change my engine block to a 1.3. My ECU also swop to Microtech. I tested on this car, about 7sec to 100km/h

ONE SHOULD ALSO COMPARE THE PRICE OF Daihatsu Charade GTti WITH OTHER SPORTS CARS CAUSE ITS CHEAP AND WORTH IT 4 SUCH A LOW PRICE.OVERALL ITS A GOOD CAR TO KEEP.

I had a 'E' reg Daihatsu Charade GTti back in 1990, I paid about £3500 for it second hand with 37000 mile on the clock , it looked brand new and still looked brand new when i sold it 3 years later, proberly the best car i ever had, drove it all over france & spain with 3 passangers clocking up 1000's of miles with no trouble at all!

The GTti was well ahead of its time, it had the most powerful 1 litre engine (99BHP) in the world earning its entry in the guiness book of records. It looked better than some of the small sports hatchbacks of today.

Any one got one for sale ???

Had a 'J' 92 reg a while back now and I wish I'd never got rid of it. I tuned it up to 135 BHP with just one modification - a trip to a local garage with a starchip conversion in hand. The best £400 I ever spent....WOW!!! I found it hard to find other tuning aids as there were very few sold in England so the tuning pro's did'nt seem that interested..Big Mistake. When I was about to sell it there seem to be a sudden craze in my area for them, I think it maybe had something to do with me tearing about everywhere plus the fact that this was one car that could actually blow a Renault 5 Turbo into the ground. Swapped it for a Carlton Gsi 24v which was a big mistake as it was actually slower up until about 120mph, was I sick!!!

I've been looking for another decent one for about 6 years now but unfortunately all the ones I've been to see were complete basket cases!!

If you ever see a good one for sale...BUY IT...you won't regret it, if you don't then e-mail me cos I'll have it!!!!!!!!!