The Japanese Damd does its familiar trick and turns the already fun Daihatsu Taft into a real retro rascal. In two flavors, because Damd offers something for everyone.
If there was a prize for the company that best combines an aggressive-sounding name with friendly-looking products, it would undoubtedly go to Damd. The Japanese tuner even made its own episode of ‘De Vluchtstrook’, simply because the friendly-looking and creatively conceived retro products of the company stand out in a positive sense in the sea of ​​black paint, dark alloy and carbon fiber of today’s tuning world .
Damd also shows his sympathetic side with the Daihatsu Taft. In this particular case it was not that difficult to come up with something nice, because the Taft presented last year is already a striking appearance. Damd first turns it into ‘Little D.’, a recipe that was also used on the Suzuki Jimny, among other things. The ‘D’ in the name is the first letter of a word that ends in ‘efender’, because the Little D. clearly takes its inspiration from the most iconic Land Rover. A grille in the right style, cool camouflage colors, steel wheels with colored hub caps and real all-terrain tires complete that picture. Also nice is the roof rack, which with its wooden accents seems to have been picked straight from the toy catalog of ‘Little Dutch’. Wait a minute, little D…?
Damd’s second Taft is called ‘Taft 80’s’ and is a logical tribute to the decade between the ‘seventies’ and the ‘nineties’. The atmosphere of that time is evoked by, among other things, the typical striping on the sidewall, but also the chosen colors, the wheels and the silver-colored decoration on the front and back refer to ‘an era in which the ride itself was fresh and fun’, such as Google Translate entrusts us from Damd’s website.