A day in the life of Dan and Phil in Japan!
Have you ever heard of Mitsuoka Motor Company.
There is a Japanese car manufacturer that has since 1993 been selling its Mitsuoka Viewt see picture above as a model of retro style that looks beautiful 1963 Jaguar MK2.
The thing is, Mitsuoka has been in business since 1968 manufacturing automobiles that are less like Japanese cars, and instead more like cars than Japan Anglophile are interested in buying, selling about 15,000 Viewt s only in Japan for the introduction of this model.
The Viewt how the sweltering do you pronounce that, and why why Japan.
Until 2016, one could buy a Viewt and other models of the company in South Asia, but for those in the UK and Ireland, you can drive yourself after visiting exclusive distributor TW Sounds white.
Mitsuoka produced the Roadster and Viewt Brooklands and some other models.
Hmmm would you like a Japanese version of expensive fake a British car you want you can afford.
I would take a Shelby Cobra kit car so my answer is hell yes I still really like a car company to build me an affordable car that looks like a Chevy Nomad wagon 1957 but with all ABS modern amenities, bags, AC, power steering and al he did not even need to be done all that US steel large as the original, but it should have all that chrome on it.
For example, the Mitsuoka Viewt available in Japan in six different trim levels and is equipped with large modern things like anti-lock brakes, air conditioning, distribution of brake force electronics and other things that Power Steering 1963 Jaguar MK2 not that I'm not sure of AC - but anything modern Sá AC system.
Prices in the UK should be between 23,000 to 29,000 according to the model variant and specifications with a long waiting list of about six months.
The thing is Viewt doesn t really looks like an old Jaguar yes it has rounded headlights and a grille that evokes memories of the old girl, but really, in every picture I've seen of the car it bears a passing resemblance to a 1963 Jaguar MK2.
1963 Jaguar MK2 - ok the Viewt kindda looks like kindda.
For people who know, like saying that the 1955 Chevy Bel Air looks to version 1956 or as version 1957.
I'm far from an expert in car and I know the many differences the many visual differences Jaguar Any fan worth his salt who wish they could afford MK2 Viewt know that is a very distant relative by marriage the cousin of iconic British cat.
Drive-wise Japanese Viewt comes with a 1 2 liter engine which is bloody tiny motor My old white 1986 Mazda 323 Familia aka for the Japanese was equipped with a 1 6 liters capable of 86 HP Now before you snicker, this lightweight beast had what I call a hidden gear that kick 120 kph and take me easily up to 140 kph I think the faster we proverbial we ever went was 205 kph, but that was on a decline and after a terribly long period before.
Thus, a 1 2-liter engine in the Viewt I'm pretty sure that the car is much heavier than my old 323, and even with a better engine tuning, it's not going to have good acceleration or even speed high peak.
But that's not the point The car was built for Japanese Anglophile who might like a gray spot rather than green tea Earl o-cha is a knock-off a tribute he's supposed to give the appearance of having some something special.
As for the Roadster Mitsuoka Roadster costs about 53,000 as of the Holy crap.
For this money, you d think you d be getting something more than a Mazda MX-5, but the Roadster comes with the same engine 2 0 liters as the MX-5 generation 158 HP and 139 pounds torque which is what Mazda Miata used to provide.
Heck within the same Roadster looks pretty much identical to the MX-5.
Still nothing wrong with a Mazda MX-5 roadster is preferred the world, after all.
It's just that this kind of money why wouldn t you just get a MX-5 is cheaper, but according to a taste that Roadster LOOKS kindda you warm.
But the Roadster enough or just look that way.
Because the Brooklands is supposed to be a limited edition version of the Roadster Mitsuoka I'm confused again by the Japanese name What Brooklands.
If you look at the photo above, the car looks like a cross between a British MG in the front and the MX-5 rear.
This marriage is like a sex goddess who wants to hang out when she is not cooking and cleaning after you think something like that exists, it should, but it never does, but here it is in Brooklands .
Remember that line it ain t pretty, it just seems that way, it is a rock song by The Northern Pikes well despite no mention of a larger engine or power, Mitsuoka has increased sticker price on the Brooklands 56700.
Okay so what do you get for this because it ain t over the bank for money.
You get wire wheels by hand like the old Jaguars, and inside, beige and green stitching one can only hope that s green Jaguar, which is a real color used by Jaguar for its racing vehicles .
Both the Roadster and the Brooklands Mitsuoka boasts that they have the fastest retractable hard top power world that opens and closes in 12 seconds.
Other cars manufactured by Mitsuoka are Galue the Ryugi I m-without-what-the-GUF-it-is like T-3 and Himiko is actually the Roadster.
Yes, in Japan, if you want a Roadster that you should ask the Himiko If you enter a Himiko, you might as well do it right.
The LIKE is a compact electric car in two places that can carry a load up to 100 kg Uh I Doesn t 100 kg load capacity depends on the weight of two people in the car because if we have two lightweights on car, then surely it can carry more than 100 kg is the maximum weight the rear storage area can hold without crumbling.
Throwing on the Japanese site, you can see the English automaker meets Anglophile, afterall some of the vehicles they used for manufacturing such as Orochi will forge Yuga Ryoga Ray Zero1 Le-Seyde SSK BUBU356 Speedster as Porsche 50s, series BUBU50, which resemble those old crappy cars Euro three wheels seen in Mr Bean or cars 2.
It is also the MC 1 micro-car series - I think we need to look at because really I'm sure you are curious as I am.
The CONVOY88 made in 2002 in the lower right looks like he tried to go between a pair others resemble golf carts One looks like a VW Beetle beheaded Both sports cars - they look like legit vehicles.
Good memories of an old 1970s American song who sneered that you are going to get killed in a Japanese car to take a look at the 1982 Mitsuoka BUBU501 and you wonder if this song was an omen, or whether the car company actually sold one of those things.
The BUBU501 it certainly looks like we could get more of a boho if you were in an accident in this case three wheels don t cut it for me, it brings back both in my childhood where I would like the number of wheels I riding was like what the big boys had.
Despite some snippy remarks, I like what Mitsuoka is doing.
More information about the company on Mitsuoka is where you can see all the details of the cars and find brochures.
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