Innocenti Mini 650

The Innocenti Mini 650 was the entry-level Daihatsu-powered version of the Innocenti Mini, first shown at the Turin Auto Show in November 1984. It used a short-stroke 617 cc two-cylinder engine rated at 31 PS (23 kW), which ran smoothly thanks to twin balance shafts, in the Minitre body, and it was also sold as a better equipped SE with hubcaps divided into threes. It could be recognised by a silver-painted asymmetric grille, a spartan dashboard with no glove compartment door and a black plastic bar between the taillights. A Moto Guzzi 650 cc V-twin was tried in a few prototypes, but fitting a motorcycle engine proved unworkable, so Innocenti stayed with Daihatsu. The 650 gave way to the Mini 500 in 1988 when Daihatsu ended its two-cylinder engine.