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Welcome, friends, to the magnificence of the Mitsuoka Roadster Essentially what we actually got here is a latest-generation Mazda MX-5 Baroque travesty To do this, you pay a fee equivalent to three brand new, MK4 Mazda MX-5 or good Morgan, and many other very serious high-end sports machines, adopt the brace position, it is 53,800 Uh-huh Fifty-three.
If you recognize the name Mitsuoka, you are probably familiar with the Orochi engine V6 sports car a few years back, which was possibly the ugliest, craziest ever designed car looking for the public road.
Anyway, the Japanese automaker crazy is back, and he brought something the UK much more tasteful A new sports car, just in time for summer.
It is chrome bumper chrome bumpers, 4,575mm as it s more than the current king of sports cars long schnozzed, the Mercedes-AMG GT is not far outstretching a BMW 3 Series is the Cartoonish word that his caricature, a Hanna-Barbera sketch gone rogue.
What Mitsuoka does is take that mk3 MX-5, cut the front frame pillars and insert a frame piece Quite a 70cm several panels Jaguar XK120-mimicking glass fibers are then hidden on top, and the headlights of a mini-boards and steps Cruella de Vil would love.
You wire the source cabin MX-5 only with a Mitsuoka badge pinned on the steering wheel boss and investigation Gulp view before the nose is three zip codes away, and rear visibility is the cinemascope variety.
But these bulbous fenders are ideal to place where the front tires are hitting the road so you turn the key button Mazda renamed it s no starter as the new MX-5 here Rouse the potty-four gruff and focus on watch glass fiber cap oscillation and vibration instead.
The short answer is like an old generation NC MX-5, but it's more than that, because even if it's inherited the same extremely light, without feeling steering, the wheelbase is so much he wants to sink in corners, and not dart to a summit.
What is good because it's softly sprung and made like to roll around his spongy roof shocks up or down, it is not stiff or it is not as if the chassis would face stiffer, more accurate depreciation Even in the wet, the lack of traction on the front axle and a relatively meager power means it won t muck around Playful, it is not.
Oh come, worth handling the point here.
No, it's not, but you do not ask, I'm sure Mitsuoka himself would admit that if you wanted to spend more fifty fifty thousand pounds on a roofless sports car, the Roadster is not intended those seeking last word in road holding final actually, maybe they i mean, who knows what they're thinking.
Good, because on the front powertrain, things are better because of less noisy performance, not particularly spritely the 158bhp engine 2 0 liters, but rather because of the manual transmission.
It is an MX-5 box, so a small cracker short range, the average weight and sumptuously each specific gear slots home is easily the most pleasant thing to drive the Mitsuoka addition incredulous amazement seems she leaves in its wake, obviously.
Does anyone really take you seriously when you're driving one of these things.
People smile more than that, in fact, they openly giggle, but not malicious, derogatory loops and other drivers look at you, smile quizzically and you know they have had their day done.
I pootled around for a few days in central London, rural, countryside Berkshire London can be a cynical place, no sense of humor when presented with a flash car, but the general reaction to the Mitsuoka was stunned the pleasure of the elderly of the parish smiled warmly, apparently to be reminded of a bygone era when the must-have car accessory was a start-crank, no LED lights running.
And because no one knows exactly what it is, and therefore how much it is worth, it does command a certain amount of respect on the road, as your colleague motorist keeps a high birth if the engine toad Toad Hall is worth more than their home.
Then it is not for you and I doubt t that means 99 5 percent of you reading this right now thrilled to style, price, mechanical underpinnings, and would rather set fire to a pile of thousand high rating , Rock around in this Far Eastern Morgan-wannabe.
But Mitsuoka products have never been to the ordinary man, and on some level you have to applaud imagination, sheer bloody determination to be different.
Or maybe you don t Honestly, I would not buy one, not as my second car, not like my hundredth But Mitsuoka makes many people crack a smile, including me what price you put on it.
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