Article: Hold the Applause

Joel Gordin
Jerusalem Post
07-17-1998
DAIHATSU APPLAUSE GLI

ENGINE: 1,590cc.

HORSEPOWER: 99 at 6,000rpm.

TORQUE: 13.8 at 3,600rpm

SHIFT: Automatic

MAXIMUM SPEED: 175 km/h

GASOLINE CONSUMPTION: 15.1 km/l at 90km/h; 11.8km/l in town

PRICE: NIS 82,200. (manual shift version : NIS 76,200)

The Daihatsu Applause arrived here in 1990 - smack in the right place at the right time.

Its arrival coincided with the mass aliya from the former Soviet Union, when thousands of consumer-conscious immigrants were searching for a suitable car to buy with their tax-exemption privileges. The Applause fit the immigrants like a glove. It was the cheapest family-size car available and, to ...

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