Matt Prior
TESTER’S NOTES
Perodua Nippa put young Prior in a pick-out pickle
D o you remember the Perodua Nippa? I think you would be forgiven for not doing so. Somebody reminded me of its existence the other day: it was a cheap city car that was considered sufficiently difficult to recognise when it was launched in 1997 that it featured in my first job interview.
Having applied to be a picture researcher for a car annual, I was shown a selection of pictures of cars and asked to identify them. One was the Nippa, and it was the only car that I couldn’t pick out. It was a few months before it went on sale and I thought it was a Daihatsu Mira. Which effectively is what it was, only facelifted and rebadged. So I was half-right, and I got the gig.