Working Daihatsus

Daihatsu sold its 4x4s to people who worked them: the Taft to Japanese farmers and foresters and, as the Wildcat, Scat and Pionier, to Australian stations and Austrian mountain farms; the Rugger and Fourtrak to British agriculture, where the 2.8 turbo-diesel and its towing capacity made it the Land Rover’s cheaper rival through the 1980s and 1990s.

In Indonesia Astra Daihatsu’s Taft and Hiline were the plantation, provincial-government and police 4x4 for over twenty years, and the F300 Feroza the small 4x4 of European and Australian towns.