Beyond its novelty, the Honda N-One RS actually stands up in quality, comfort, and value. A Kei car is the only way to ...

What about the state with the current largest kei car buyer pool, California? Well, that's where it gets complicated and when we say complicated, we mean it. For a kei car to be legally registered ...

Kei car, or kei jidōsha, is a regulated category of vehicles defined by their small characteristics. And this thing… is small. The AZ-1 came out in 1992 and is filled with features enthusiasts ...

Many years ago I built a Fireblade-engined Caterham Seven. Actually that’s not strictly true. I paid a nice man called Paul Harvey to build it for me, as I wouldn’t want to drive anything I ...

The model would seem very much to be a look ahead at a possible successor to the Beat kei car for Japanese customers ... Covering the largest floor area of any single brand at the show, the ...

and see what disadvantages the country's obsession with kei cars create for its manufacturers and for foreign brands that are attempting to make headway in the world's third-largest market.

Some markets, including the Japanese market, incentivize automakers to make small Kei cars. Small Honda cars have always been popular in places like Japan, where the Kei class of automobiles ...

The cheapest Kei truck sold by Japan Car Direct is about $5,000, with shipping costs accounting for much of that sum. "Every single year for the past seven years we've been increasing our sales ...

From the November/December issue of Car and Driver. There's a target on the tailgates of kei trucks. These pint-size haulers have a small but fervent following in the U.S. The federal government ...