I also had an experience with Japanese masterful auto making. I found a brand new 1988 Daihatsu Charade sitting on the showroom floor 2 years after it was introduced. So for $6,500 I got this wonder car with an engine smaller than most motorcycles. 3 cylinder 84cc. A couple of months after getting it I am whizzing down the freeway at 65MPH with a tachometer reading 6500 RPM and I hear BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG,....  I pull over and start looking of this itty bitty engine and notice it only has 2 spark plugs. One apparently wasn't properly torqued down and feel out. I go to a parts shop and share my experience and find a new plug and borrow a wrench and I was back on the road. We got it as TOAD. It was to be towed behind our big motorhome and used for local run around when we parked. It was fun to drive and really did the job. I sadly have no recall of where it ended up. Maybe it was sold when we got rid of the RV.  It really was a fun car to drive.