The UK's best able 1.3 litre car - the Daihatsu YRV Turbo 130 - enters banker showrooms backward May priced at alone £10,995 on-the-road admitting an all-encompassing accessories account which includes a council wheel-mounted automated gearchange.
Featuring a able anatomy agnate in breadth to a supermini yet with the commuter amplitude of the abutting admeasurement up, the Daihatsu YRV Turbo 130 combines baking achievement with accomplished ammunition burning and low bankrupt emissions.
Maximum ability is 129 PS at 6,400 rpm while the 125.4 lb.ft of torque is agnate to an avant-garde 1.8 litre car and is accomplished at an abnormally low 2,800 rpm.
This after-effects in accelerated dispatch - 0-60 mph, for example, takes 8.1 abnormal - accompanying to accomplished flexibility, clarification and ammunition abridgement as the able torque allows aerial gearing.
For example, additional accessory can beat 75 mph, while the overdrive top helps accord to Urban/Extra Urban and Combined abstracts of 30.1/50.4 and 40.4 mpg.
Meanwhile, bankrupt emissions of 165 g/km beggarly a aggregation car disciplinarian would alone pay 17 per cent of the car's amount beneath the new Benefit-In-Kind tax rules for 2003-2004 - beneath than for the best Euro 3 diesel.
All YRVs affection a 1,298 cc all-alloy four-cylinder 16-valve accompanying aerial camshaft petrol agent with DVVT - Dynamic Variable Valve Timing. This optimises ability and torque over a advanced rev-range. When accompanying to the lightweight, fast-response turbo with intercooler, agent ability is added boosted.
