Its cult following didn’t exactly appear through its production, however. Honda projected 10,000 units a month; the real number came at just shy of 3,000 in a single month, and closer to 53,000 across the entire production run.
In the years, since, this plucky little runner has been a mainstay in Japanese pop culture such as anime (it turns up as a police runabout in You’re Under Arrest, and lent its silhouette to a character in Kino’s Journey), a face of some genuinely odd…

