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There is no better way to strut 47kW.
That’s what the JDM Daihatsu Copen produces. Just 47kW/92Nm from its turbocharged 660cc engine. But now you can make it look like it has a lot more thanks to Aichi Prefecture’s most infamous custom body shop; Liberty Walk.
Complete with obnoxious overfenders, fake exhaust tips and GT-R badging, it’s the bodykit that would yell “PLEASE DEFECT ME” in Australia and, in the rest of the world, is seemingly just an invitation for a cease and desist from Nissan.
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Liberty Walk sells the Copen ‘GT-K’ kit in a few different flavours depending on how much you want to offend GT-R fans.
The full-fat set, coming in at the equivalent of almost AU$5000 includes the GT-R front and rear bumpers, the ‘GT wing’ and signature widebody fenders. Although, to get the car in the pictures you need to add the 'Liberty Walk original aluminium wheels' (AU$2019), air suspension (AU$7376), LED DRLs (AU$129), mirror covers (AU$439) and fake quad mufflers (AU$2728) for a total cost of AU$17,691.
Kind of a tall order when a brand-new Copen Robe in Japan costs the equivalent of AU$22,200.
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You can also spec the car with the individual 'GT-K' body kit parts or opt for a more conservative AU$3002 set that doesn’t include the wide bits or 'GT' wing.
Sadly, unlike its primary rival, the Honda S660, the Copen is not a midship rear-wheel drive and channels its huge power reserves through just the front wheels.
Awesome little homage or just distasteful? Tell us what you think of the Liberty Walk GT-K Copen in the comments.
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