The former training vehicle Kicks gets a powerful 5-turbo look

And lastly, a hot hatch-style car named ‘KOTO’, which has the image of the Renault 5 Turbo, but as the name suggests, adopts a design that evokes the ancient capital of Kyoto, where the school is located.

The front grille features the torii gate of the Fushimi Inari Taisha shrine, the over wings resemble the overhanging tiles of a five-story pagoda, and the front and rear bumpers represent Kyoto with a tiled roof-like expression.

In the interior, the door panels and other leather materials are dyed using sumi-nagashi dyeing, a kimono dyeing technique, while the speaker grilles are made to look like shoji screens and have built-in lights, adding to the sense of fun.

The base model is a former apprentice car, the Kicks (OEM model of the Pajero Mini), but it is also characterized by the fact that it has been converted to a manual transmission, adding to its image of nimble driving through the streets of Kyoto.

translated by DeepL