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Out of my lot I'm going to guess than the Daihatsu Charmant 1.3 LE is the rarest, there's only about 5-6 Charmants of any description left in the UK and I'd guess less than a thousand worldwide (mostly developing countries). They were pretty rot-prone and worthless when they were nearly new, non-mechanical parts are near-impossible to find (even critical things like light units), they didn't sell in that many places and much of the remaining ones are likely to just end up as cheap drift cars which ultimately end up crashed. I'm not a drifter though, just somebody who appreciates plastic woodgrain and mediocre ride quality.
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Actually, I just looked outside and thought about this one. It's almost certainly the only Nissan Laurel 1800-LPG in the UK, it was a high-mileage ex-taxi bought and imported by some guy in 2000 for reasons unknown (probably alcohol, it was for me). Nissan only sold the 1.8 of this model in Japan for commercial fleet use, directly to taxi drivers and driving schools, the engine was deemed too slow for actual consumers. Given that the newest one would be 1993, I suspect none of them are still in use commercially and were scrapped years ago. If there's any survivors they will probably just be the odd one which escaped to Russia as a budget used car and still survive. I'm only aware of one other survivor, some guy in Eastern Europe, not sure if he still has it. I look forward to busting it out in a future "who has the lowest power/weight ratio" thread.
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