Sado: escape to Japan's remote and wild island.
We host our Sado workshops here
and other activities that involve sitting on the floor.
Joined Super Kids Orchestra with Hiroshi Sado in the second year of junior high school.
Today let's focus on the Sado 550, which Paulo described as“Think Smart Car
but 20 years older.”.
While the guests were eating, Sado sat facing them and thanked them several times for coming.
Between 1982 and 1984 about 500 Sado 550s were built,
and you can still find a few for sale today.
The Sado 550, modest and limited as it is,
does strike me as something that could be a satisfying little car to drive,
A Portuguese reader named Paulo actually
emailed me to let me know that there's plenty of good, weird Portuguese iron, like the Sado 550.
The Sado 550 was born as part of Project Ximba,
which was undertaken by Entreposto, a conglomerate of companies whose name seems to mean“Warehouse.”.
Actually, wait- think less like a Golf and more like a shrunken Chevette,
or a Mazda GLC, because the Sado 550 was, incredibly, a RWD car.
They found they weren't quite able to do that, but,
at about 70% local content, the Sado 550 proved to be far more
Portuguese than almost anything else available on the market at the time.