![]() The Japanese yen rose sharply against the dollar today as traders fled to the perceived safety of the Japanese currency. The dollar conversion of course fluctuated wildly today. All cars are limited to the Japanese market at the moment, and nobody wanted to comment on plans for a foreign deployments of Tanks, or Thors. All vehicles cost about the same, between 1,463,400 Japanese yen and 2,008,800 JPY, prices only marginally higher than a comparable kei car. A “newly developed 1.0-liter turbo engine can produce torque equivalent to that of a 1.5-liter class engine,” Toyota promised today while the red bars on the phones of the assembled reporters grew bigger and bigger. All look like the boxy kei cars common to Japan, but they have a slightly less anemic engine than the 0.6 liter “power” train the kei car is limited to by government edict. The Daihatsu-designed and -produced vehicle can be had as a Daihatsu Thor, a Toyota Tank, or, apparently to target a more pacifist-leaning demographic, as a Toyota Roomy. The Tank is just one part of a big re-badge exercise between Toyota and its now wholly-owned subsidiary Daihatsu.
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