Daihatsu · 1974–1988
Daihatsu Charmant
The Daihatsu Charmant (Japanese: ダイハツ・シャルマン, Hepburn: Daihatsu Sharuman) is a subcompact car built by Daihatsu. It was succeeded by the Applause and Charade Social a little over a year after Charmant production ended. The Charmant was heavily based on the E20/E70 Toyota Corolla platforms; model changes paralleled those of the Corolla. All Charmants were fitted with Toyota inline-four engines, ranging from 1.2 to 1.6-litres. The word charmant is French for "charming." When it was introduced, it was the largest Daihatsu passenger vehicle sold in Japan (until the introduction of the Delta Wide minivan in 1982), with the Charade supermini in the middle (introduced in 1977), and the Fellow Max (succeeded by Mira in 1980) kei car as the smallest.
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UK vehicles on the road
1 licensed and 11 SORN (12 total) at 2025 Q4.
| Year (latest quarter) | Vehicles |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 12 |
| 2015 | 10 |
| 2016 | 12 |
| 2017 | 13 |
| 2018 | 13 |
| 2019 | 13 |
| 2020 | 12 |
| 2021 | 12 |
| 2022 | 12 |
| 2023 | 11 |
| 2024 | 12 |
| 2025 | 12 |
DfT/DVLA VEH0120 vehicle licensing statistics, source ↗, Open Government Licence v3.0. Small counts are rounded or suppressed at source.
Sources
- Wikidata / Wikipedia profiles — https://models.autoculturesociety.com/cars/Q1157554CC0 / CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daihatsu_CharmantCC BY-SA 4.0 · Intro text © Wikipedia contributors; revision 1371692968 · retrieved 2026-10-03
- DfT/DVLA VEH0120 licensing statistics — https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/vehicle-licensing-statistics-data-tablesOpen Government Licence v3.0
- Car Model Index — https://models.autoculturesociety.com/Compiled record. Sources that do not permit reuse are not copied; this index is credited instead.