Mitsuoka

Mitsuoka Motors (光岡自動車) is a small Japanese automobile company. It is noted for building cars with conventional styling, some of which imitate British vehicles of the 1950s and 1960s.^[1] It is primarily a coachbuilder, taking production cars, like the Nissan March, and replacing the bodywork with its own custom designs. It has also produced a sports car, the Orochi. Mitsuoka Motors is also the principal distributor of retro-classic TD2000 roadster in Japan. Mitsuoka is the youngest Japanese auto manufacturer, and bases its current cars on Nissans and Infinitis. Also, it built just one ute version of the Viewt, which is in the U.K. It also makes its cars look like different cars (i.e., the Galue is meant to look like an older Rolls-Royce).

Models

2005 Mitsuoka Orochi Nude-Top Roadster.

Current lineup

• Cute^[2]
• Galue
• Galue 204
• Himiko
• Nouera
• Viewt

Past vehicles

Second generation Ryoga

• BUBU 50 Series (a series of three-wheeled microcars)^[3]
• BUBU 356 Speedster^[4] (a copy of the Porsche 356 Speedster)
• Convoy 88
• Dore
• Le-Seyde (a Nissan Silvia-based coupé in the spirit of the Zimmer)
• Like
• Microcar K-1
• Microcar K-2 based on the design of the FMR Tg500
• Microcar K-3
• Microcar K-4^[5]
• Orochi
• Ray
• Ray II
• Ray III (similar to the Riley Elf Mk.3)
• Mitsuoka Ryoga - 1998-2004, a "classically" styled sedan originally based on the Primera and later on the smaller Sunny.
• Type F (a restyled Zero1)
• Yuga (a London Taxi copy)
• Zero1^[6] (a Lotus Super Seven copy with Eunos Roadster drivetrain)

References

External links

• Mitsuoka Motors Japanese website (Japanese)
• Mitsuoka Motors global website (English)

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