Mitsuoka

This article is about the company. For other uses, see Mitsuoka (disambiguation).

Mitsuoka Motor Co., Ltd.

Type	Public company
Industry	Automobile manufacturing
Founded	February 1, 1968
Headquarters	508-3, Kakeomachi, Toyama City, Toyama Prefecture, Japan
Key people	Akio Mitsuoka (Representative Director and President)
Revenue	227,000,000 JPY
Net income	29,700,000,000 JPY
Employees	580 (As of March, 2008)
Website	Mitsuoka Motors website

Mitsuoka Motors (光岡自動車^?) is a small Japanese automobile company. They are noted for building cars with unconventional styling, some of which imitate British vehicles of the 1950s and 1960s.^[1] It is primarily a coachbuilder, taking production cars like the Nissan March and replacing the bodywork with its own custom designs. It has also produced a sports car, the Orochi. Mitsuoka Motors is also the principal distributor of retro-classic TD2000 roadster in Japan.

Models

2005 Mitsuoka Orochi Nude-Top Roadstar.

Current lineup

• Cute^[2]
• Galue
• Galue 204
• Himiko
• Nouera
• Orochi
• Ryoga
• Viewt
• Like

Past vehicles

• BUBU Series^[3]
• BUBU 356 Speedster^[4] (a replica of the Porsche 356 Speedster)
• Le Seyde (similar to the Zimmer)
• MC
• Microcar K-4^[5]
• Ray
• Type F (a restyled Zero1)
• Yuga (a London Taxi replica)
• Zero1^[6] (a Lotus Super Seven replica with Eunos Roadster drivetrain)

References

1. ^ "In Japan, a Car Apart from the Pack". Bloomberg Business Week website. 2008. http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/apr2008/gb2008047_914952.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_businessweek+exclusives. Retrieved 2010-03-14. 
2. ^ Mitsuoka Cute^{[dead link]}
3. ^ "Mitsuoka BUBU Series". Mitsuoka-motor.com. http://www.mitsuoka-motor.com/lineup/50Series/index.html. Retrieved 2011-08-21. 
4. ^ "Mitsuoka BUBU 356 Speedster". Mitsuoka-motor.com. http://www.mitsuoka-motor.com/lineup/356/index.html. Retrieved 2011-08-21. 
5. ^ "Mitsuoka Microcar K-4". Mitsuoka-mc.com. http://www.mitsuoka-mc.com/. Retrieved 2011-08-21. 
6. ^ "Mitsuoka Zero1". Mitsuoka-motor.com. http://www.mitsuoka-motor.com/lineup/zero1_1800/index.html. Retrieved 2011-08-21. 

External links

Japanese Car portal

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