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Charades Are In: Daihatsu America Inc., based in Los Alamitos, has finally got enough 1991Charade cars from Japan to officially introduce the line, six months into the selling season.

But while late, the news should give the Los Alamitos-based importer a boost: Prices are down from last year. The three-door Charade hatchback has a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $6,397, down from $6,597 for 1990.

The new price for the bottom-of-the-line Charade is “$400 below the lowest-priced Geo Metro, $600 below the least-expensive Honda Civic and, after tax, more than $2,000 below the lowest-priced Nissan Sentra,” said C.R. (Dick) Brown, executive vice president of Daihatsu America.