Kei Cars

Nissan keeps the factory camper vans coming. Its newest is built atop its smallest van, the Clipper kei van, which measures in under 3.4 meters (11.2 feet) long. To make it a micro-camper, Nissan relies on a basic household staple with which everyday DIY handymen have been familiar for ages: pegboard. The van's integrated peg panels serve as a simple, affordable means of holding up the bed and providing highly versatile storage organization for related (and unrelated) outdoor adventures.

Ovrlnd has built out a miniaturized camping topper sized to a 1980 Mini 95 pickup that measures comparably to a Japanese kei car. And though the rig looks more like a toy at first, it offers 6.5 feet of standing room inside and a comfy double bed.

Honda has revealed intriguing details of forthcoming Super-One compact EV. Along with aggressive styling, up to 70 kW of motor power and a 200-mile city range, you can buckle up for an exciting simulated hot-hatch experience by hitting 'Boost.'

For decades, the Mitsubishi Delica has proven itself a rugged, reliable base van for mini-camper vans and pint-sized adventure vans. And now it's joined by an even smaller Delica camper van, the purely kei-size Delica Mini Pop micro-camper

Here’s a fun fact: Fiat's Topolino doesn’t even certify as a proper car, but rather an electric “quadricycle.” How will the under-100-inch-long compact electric runabout fare in a market that's dominated by big performance cars and heavy trucks?

At this year's Japan Mobility Show, the legendary little Mitsubishi Delica van cedes the stage (for a moment, anyway) to an even cooler Mitsubishi camping rig: a futuristic concept combo that expands into a multi-room base camp.

Honda took to the track back in July, with an electric four-door kei car called the Super EV. Now it looks like the concept has gone into production, as the company launches the compact N-One e: city car on its home turf.

Telo's upcoming compact electric truck has a whopping 500 hp – enough to haul a full-size bed full of cargo. That kind of power will inevitably corrupt you into dreaming about drifting in this thing, and soon, you'll be able to do just that.

Is there any vehicle more adorable than a sub-4-m Japanese micro-camper van? Maybe a next-gen micro-camper built into a versatile van platform that also works as a commercial goods-hauler and mobile pop-up shop? That's the Toyota Kayoibako.

At the dawn of the current EV revolution, Mitsubishi launched a highway-capable, mass-produced five-door hatchback called the i-MiEV, followed by an electric version of its veteran microvan. Now that Minicab-MiEV is being updated for 2024.

HW Electro has revealed a new light electric concept called the Puzzle, a boxy minivan designed with disaster relief in mind and sporting external power outlets, USB ports, a crowbar and a first aid kit.

One the world's most beloved mini-camper van nameplates has gone full micro. The Mitsubishi Delica has spawned the Delica Mini kei van. It shouldn't be long before Japan's camper conversion industry turns it into an amazingly efficient micro-camper.