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You know, sometimes, rarely, almost never based on your level of geekhood you get a glimpse of a vehicle and you do not know what it is he a few years ago, if you'd seen something in Japan and you do not know how to describe you would never find it was.
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A perfect example would be the strangest thing we zipped past the last night we went to the station in a small town just south of Yokohama It was very short, narrow and high, almost as if it was built from a kart chassis he had a set of canvas making appears to have driven through someone's tent, and he had a last pale blue dot is the first clue, like the color of the plate mineralogical determines the class of the vehicle in Japan If a car has white plates it its engine passenger car 660cc and the requirement to own or rent a parking space for your home if it is yellow, its 660cc Kei car and the limited dimensions for parking space without mandatory, which is why many of them end up the size and shape of the control box for example, here the box N Honda to its name.
Other forms of Kei car exist eg beat Honda, Suzuki Cappuccino and Autozam AZ-1 are some of the most extreme examples, but the most common type are those now that maximize their use of available space, classification of the last vehicle below the Kei class and with a pale blue sheet that accompanies it is for cars with an engine displacement as the Kei-class cars are real cars with all the contemporary features of larger vehicles and very low operating costs, the demand is very small 49cc microcars this is actually the first I've seen in 12 years of travel in Japan, including a residential passage 2 years So what do I see a single seat Mitsuoka MC-1, also known as K-1 K-1 was the first of a modern range of kits Microcar, which included imaginative names like K-2 inspired by the Messerschm idt Tiger, K3.
Lotus 7 Donkervoort retro-pastiche generic sports car is delivered in kit.
There are even EV variants to match the times.
The K-1 were also some optional accessories to make it more practical, like the tent top and a plastic box for hanging on the back if you want more practice, you need a 88 Convoy.
Mitsuoka also have a history with microcars, and we know Jalopnik they've proven to be the perfect vehicle to escape skates Ninjas in.
The question is, why would someone go to work in such a device when a scooter is cheaper, even easier to park and less limited by the surrounding traffic, I have a theory of the street, we were a preparation and go-kart racing team on it I suspect that one of the staff members has uprated its mechanicals 49cc car for a pseudo-legal street pleasure He certainly didn t hang around.
If someone thinks that the name Mitsuoka is familiar, they are of course the same company that brought you the Micra Mars who think it's a Jaguar Mk2, and the sports car strangest future in the world the Orochi, among other sights.
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Mitsuoka K1 Japanese oddity, Mitsuoka.