Daihatsu Midget

The Daihatsu Midget is a single-seater mini-truck, later a microvan and kei truck, made by the Japanese automaker Daihatsu. Several distinct vehicles have carried the Midget name over the years, but all have had in common a utilitarian design for one or two people, with an enclosed or semi-enclosed cab. The original DKA Midget was introduced in August 1957. From August 1959 it was replaced by the more comfortable DSA, which has doors and a more powerful 10 PS version of the ZA engine, and there was also the DSV panel van. The MP2 Midget followed in Japan in October 1959 with a steering wheel, doors and seating for two, and it had already been sold in the United States since April 1959 as the MPA, marketed as the Daihatsu Trimobile.