{"id":21208,"date":"2011-06-27T16:05:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T15:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=21208"},"modified":"2022-06-14T12:17:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T11:17:09","slug":"good-things-small-packages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/good-things-small-packages\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Things, Small Packages"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Every now and then we come across a small, Japanese utilitarian vehicles (or kei<\/em> car) that floats our automotive boat.<\/p>\n

They’re designed to be cheap and to help transcend various taxes and other regulations, but inadvertently at times they seem super cool and somehow aesthetically appealing.<\/p>\n

We’re not sure why.<\/p>\n

But we reckon it’s probably ‘the bonsai<\/a> effect’.<\/p>\n

If you make something composed of stout, practical stuff but condense its essence into a dinky package – you instantly have something that, to western eyes, appears to be transcendent of rigid design orthodoxies.<\/p>\n

Suzuki’s Suzulight Carry series of kei<\/em> utes were born in the early sixties – and our favourite the glassed panel van hot the streets in 1964. September 1964. It had a little 360 cc two cylinder two stroke that produced 21 hp: so a powerhouse it most certainly was not. But think of the fun that could be had buzzing around Japan’s congested cities in one of these things.<\/p>\n

Of course, nice graphic design came as standard in sixties Japan, and the catalogue scans here speak for themselves…<\/p>\n\n\t\t