I knew nothing about Daihatsu when I first purchased a 2001 Cuore because my girlfriend loved the way it looked, and we needed a cheap runabout. I absolutely fell in love with the car and dailied it for a couple years before my girlfriend drove it under a ute. She’s all good, but the Cuore was a writeoff.
Fast forward to today and I’ve just rego’d a Sirion 2000 (155k odo) after buying it for $1000 sight unseen and driving it 200km and will probably buy another Daihatsu to daily once something catastrophic happens to my red beast.