Classified in the Kei-car class, a category that attracted the leanest of insurance and road tax costs in Japan, early cars in this genre were generally restricted to domestic sales, although the car was seen in markets as diverse as Australia and Holland. A more purposeful but somewhat ornate upgrade over the Fellow, the Fellow […]
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The 1960s was a significant period for Japanese cars, where their ambitions grew to overseas markets. In order to appeal to the European market, several Japanese companies utilised Italian design schools to create more appealing looking vehicles. Some like Bertone were very resolved to a European sense of aesthetics but had limited appeal in their
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The standard middle-weight MK2 Colt Lancer was announced in the UK in 1980 and was fairly mundane news; another smart if slightly anonymous-looking Japanese car looking to find 1500 homes for its first year. It had no outstanding drawbacks, so there was no problem fulfilling that modest import run. However, late in 1980 Mitsubishi announced
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It’s been a long time coming but Mitsubishi has confirmed that they will cease to import cars into Europe. A combination of dated machinery, emissions and no strong contenders in the best selling sectors could be to blame. Mitsubishi owners in the UK benefitted from a very active heritage involvement (quite unlike any other British
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The 1978 Datsun range was the most successful line up of cars up to that point. Nissan first imported their products just 10 years prior and was rewarded with over 100,000 sales in 1978 alone. The virtues of the cars didn’t lay in driving excitement, advanced engineering or sporting ability but as the public proved,
