Sentences with phrase «as kei»

The Wagon R started life in 1993 as a kei car in Japan and was in fact, one of the first cars to carry the «tall boy» design.

In Japan, as cars under 3,400 mm (133.9 in) in length are classified as kei cars and attract lower taxes; some manufacturers build these cars with off - road looks (such as the Mitsubishi Pajero Mini).

Japan has a sub-species of automobiles and trucks known as kei class, which are among the smallest working vehicles in the world.

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But there is still a negative image in Japan about meeting someone online, as some shady deai - kei online dating services have been hotbeds for child prostitution and other crimes.

A decade later, Mitsubishi was looking like it had found its feet again, but in early 2016 it was revealed that the automaker had been fudging fuel - economy numbers on its Japanese - market kei cars for decades, including vehicles sold under its own brand as well as those built for Nissan.

Elsewhere, Suzuki's lineup is somewhat whackier, primarily as the brand is a huge player in Japan's kei - jidosha microcar market.

Displacement can also be very small, as found in kei cars sold in Japan, such as the Subaru EN series; engines that started out at 550 cc and are currently at 660 cc, with variable valve timing, DOHC and superchargers resulting in engines that often claim the legal maximum of 64 PS (47 kW; 63 bhp).

The Honda S660 has to be the most desirable kei car right now, and this new Modulo X special edition makes us even more jealous at Japanese buyers as they're the only ones that can enjoy it.

We know you're waiting for the performance bits, and the S660 won't disappoint as it features a specially tuned suspension with five stages of damping adjustment — quite a sophisticated thing to have in a kei car, don't you think?

The company's president has however said the 625,000 or so Japanese kei - style minicars admitted to have had their mpg ratings altered by as much as 10 percent does threaten the company's survival.

Tiny cars called «kei» vehicles sold briskly in Japan market, while strong demand for sport utility vehicles such as the Nissan Rogue helped perk up sales in the U.S.. Although Nissan's sales in China in the latest quarter exceeded those in the previous year, the momentum of growth was tapering off, the company said.

The engine remains unchanged as per Japan's kei car regulations, and continues to be a 660 cc, turbocharged DOHC three - cylinder engine with 64 hp and 104 Nm of torque.

Honda has equipped the kei car with Honda Sensing, that too as standard.

A joint venture to produce gasoline kei cars made sense for the two makers, and now an electric adaptation of that car — just as the i - MiEV was adapted from the gasoline «i» — seems to be the likely outcome of this announcement.

Mitsubishi already sells the MiEV, an electric variant of their popular «i» kei - car, in Japan as well as Hong Kong and the UK, and plans to roll out MiEV sales to nineteen European countries starting this year.

As a purely hypothetical example, if the keyphrase «New York tax lawyer» appeared in 85 searches in the sample search database in the past 100 days, and 1,670 websites use that exact phrase, the KEI for that keyword is 4.326 (i.e., 85 squared divided by 1670).

KEI is based on the number of searches each keyword gets, as well as the number of competing sites in Google.

This «number - of - searches - to - competition» ratio is known as Keyword Efficiency Index, or KEI.