If you have never dealt with a Kei truck from Japan, you are missing out. It’s difficult to see a vehicle like a Suzuki Carry (pictured) or any of the other micro-trucks, like the Honda Acty or Mazda Scrum used anywhere outside of a college campus’s maintenance division or a farmer’s field in the United States, mainly due to the limited speed these 660cc trucks are capable of running…they usually max out at 75 MPH. But they are small, purposeful and for a racing team of just about any kind, they are an attractive option for a pit vehicle: small enough to fit in the trailer, large enough to carry tires, tools and humans, and street-legal enough to be a runaround rig.
Hoonigan recently got tapped by the Worthouse Drift Team to take their Suzuki and turn it into something interesting. Think about that for a minute: how do you make a 660cc, 1,500 pound cab-over interesting when you live in America and are about as far away from the Japanese car culture as you can get? Well…let’s start with a rotary mill. No joke, this build is going to see the original three-cylinder hit the bin in favor of some kind of Wankel. Which one, though…a modified RX-7 13B unit or the Renesis from the RX-8? Either way, even if they don’t mess with the engine and just focus on other parts of the little trucklet, this is going to be the most unhinged vehicle seen in the background of an automotive sporting event since the micro pit bike.
We’ve had one of these for years on the farm. You can’t kill them. I have always made the joke that thisnia as close to a Ferrari as ill get being its right handed drive.
And 70 75 is about max mph too.
There are a ton of them in my part of the world and more than a few dealers and shops just for them.
I approve greatly of a rotary powered one of these things