The Daihatsu Move is a kei car/city car manufactured by the Japanese automaker Daihatsu since August 1995. The Move is Daihatsu's response to the similarly designed Suzuki Wagon R that was introduced two years earlier in 1993. The Move is built upon the chassis of the Mira but with a taller body. Daihatsu had successfully sold 500,000 units of the Move during its first three years of production.
The first-generation Move was marketed with a three-cylinder engine in Japan and with an ED-20 engine in export markets. The Japanese domestic market models were internally designated L600, or L610 when equipped with four-wheel drive system; export models were internally designated L601. In 1997, a variant marketed as the Move Custom was introduced with larger headlamps and revised front styling, and was available in subsequent generations. Daihatsu produced more than half a million L600/L610 Move models, mostly in Japan. It was imported to Europe, including the UK; its 1999 successor was not exported to Europe. The Move is offered with an optional front-wheel drive model with a turbocharged 658 cc JB-JLfour-cylinder engine producing and using the internal designatione L602. The export model's ED-20 engine produced, offering more torque than the naturally aspirated 660 cc engines due to its larger displacement.
The second-generation Move was introduced in October 1998 and was also marketed in Malaysia with slight modifications as the Perodua Kenari. Power of the Japanese market engines are for the basic EF-SE, for the 12-valve EF-VE and for the turbocharged EF-DET and JB-DET engines.
The fifth-generation Mira was introduced in late 2010 as 2011 models. The car is also sold by Subaru as the second-generation Subaru Stella through an OEM agreement.
The sixth-generation Move was introduced in Japan in December 2014, along with the third-generation Stella. This generation features a lightweight high-rigidity body structure with a reinforced underbody, improved suspension system, and a power mode-switching steering switch that allows drivers to change the control of the engine and CVT at the touch of a button. It has a derivative called Move Canbus. Fuel economy is claimed at while turbocharged models delivering.
International markets
In Malaysia, Perodua manufactures a version of the Move called the Kenari. In China, the FAW Tianjinjoint venture between First Automobile Works and Toyota produces a petrol and electrical version of the Move. The electric version is exported to the US as the Miles ZX40. The first two generation Moves were also exported to Europe, where they also went by the Japanese market name. Due to poor sales, Daihatsu did not export the third or fourth-generation Moves to Europe, making it strictly a Japanese domestic market model.
