is a small Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese automobile

Automobile

An automobile, autocar, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor...

 company. They are noted for building cars with unconventional styling, some of which imitate British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 vehicles of the 1950s and 1960s. It is primarily a coachbuilder

Coachbuilder

A coachbuilder is a manufacturer of bodies for carriages or automobiles.The trade dates back several centuries. Rippon was active in the time of Queen Elizabeth I, Barker founded in 1710 by an officer in Queen Anne's Guards, Brewster a relative newcomer , formed in 1810. Others in Britain included...

, taking production cars like the Nissan March

Nissan March

The Nissan Micra, known in Latin America and in most of Asia as the Nissan and in North America as the Nissan Versa , is a supermini produced by the Japanese automaker Nissan since 1982.-Micra K10:...

 and replacing the bodywork with its own custom designs. It has also produced a sports car, the Orochi

Mitsuoka Orochi

The Mitsuoka Orochi is a Japanese sports car designed and built by Mitsuoka Motors as a concept car in 2001, with updates and revisions to the design appearing in 2003 and 2005, before finally being put into production and offered for sale in late 2006 as a 2007 model. The car takes its name from...

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Mitsuoka Motors is also the principal distributor of retro-classic TD2000

TD2000

The TD2000 is a retro-styled roadster styled after the British MG TD. Produced by TD Cars Sdn. Bhd., a 70% Malaysian-owned operation with the remaining 30% share owned by Australian partners, the car is assembled in Malaysia and exported overseas...

 roadster in Japan.

Models

Current lineup

• Cute
• Galue
  Mitsuoka Galue
  The Mitsuoka Galue is a name used on two series of cars, which are based on more conventional Japanese and American cars. Both series are available as of February 2008.- First series :...
  
  
• Galue 204
• Himiko
  Mitsuoka Himiko
  The Mitsuoka Himiko is a Japanese sports car designed and built by Mitsuoka. It is named after Himiko, an obscure shaman queen of Yamataikoku in ancient Wa....
  
  
• Nouera
  Mitsuoka Nouera
  The is a car model from the Japanese car brand Mitsuoka. The Nouera is a 4 door saloon model, based on the Honda Accord. The front and rear styling is modified: a chrome grille and twin circular headlamps have been added at the front to give the car classic English looks, and differently-shaped...
  
  
• Orochi
  Mitsuoka Orochi
  The Mitsuoka Orochi is a Japanese sports car designed and built by Mitsuoka Motors as a concept car in 2001, with updates and revisions to the design appearing in 2003 and 2005, before finally being put into production and offered for sale in late 2006 as a 2007 model. The car takes its name from...
  
  
• Ryoga
• Viewt
  Mitsuoka Viewt
  The Mitsuoka Viewt is a modification of the Nissan March/Micra, intended to resemble the Jaguar Mark 2. It, along with Mitsuoka's later Galue, encouraged larger Japanese manufacturers to produce retro-styled versions of their own cars.- The K11 Viewt :...
  
  
• Like
  Mitsuoka Like
  Mitsuoka Like is a car manufactured by Mitsuoka Motors, based on Mitsubishi i MiEV.- External links :*...
  
  

Past vehicles

• BUBU Series
• BUBU 356 Speedster (a replica of the Porsche 356
  Porsche 356
  The Porsche 356 was the company's first production automobile. It was a lightweight and nimble handling rear-engine rear-wheel-drive 2 door sports car available in hardtop coupe and open configurations. Design innovations continued during the years of manufacture, contributing to its motorsports...
  
   Speedster)
• Le Seyde (similar to the Zimmer
  Zimmer (automobile)
  Zimmer is the name of a U.S. neo-classic automaker, based in Syracuse, New York. The company was founded in 1978 as Zimmer Motorcars Corporation by Paul Zimmer and failed shortly after his death in 1988....
  
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• MC
• Microcar K-4
• Ray
• Type F (a restyled Zero1)
• Yuga (a London Taxi replica)
• Zero1 (a Lotus Super Seven replica with Eunos Roadster drivetrain)

External links

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