...This appears to be a Daihatsu Zebra, probably based on the second-generation Charade that was built from 1983 to 1987.
NO! I am sorry. I am the administrator of the "Daihatsu Charade G10 owners club" (
www.charade-g10.net). The Charade G10 was build from 1977 till 1983. From the 1981 modell on Daihatsu changed a few things like squarde headlights a cleaner hood, different dashboard and some other small changes. For more details look here
http://www.charade-g10.net/diffs_de.htm we (the club) named the two different versions MK-1 and MK-2.
So the Zebra is based on the MK-2 Charade G10 (1981-1983) from 1983 to 1987 the Modell was known as Charade G11.
The Zebra was not build by Daihatsu, it was made by Automeccanica.
Automeccanica was a Greek automobile producing company. Founded in 1981, it was one of the companies that produced the "passenger-uitlity" type of vehicle popular in Greece at the time for tax categorization reasons. Its creators were former executives of Autokinitobiomihania Ellados (meaning 'Greek Car Industry') a company founded in 1975 to also produce vehicles of this type – it assembled Italian Fissore models based on Fiat products, as well as other Fiat models and variants. Automeccanica followed a different path, building (not just assembling) the Zebra model, a passenger-utility car based on the Daihatsu Charade, as well as assembling the Charade itself. In 1985, when the law favoring the Zebra-type vehicles changed, Automeccanica started licence production of the Soviet Lada Niva model, while it developed its own cabrio-version of the car. In 1988 it acquired its former "father" company, Autokinitobiomihania Ellados and the latter's factory in Thiva. Automeccanica went out of the car-construction business in 1995.
