Japanese 7

[BusaNostra]

Remember this car? Zero-1 by an excellent builder Mitsuoka.

Ugly like Florida GAR fish.

But ahead in it's time -- 1.8 Mazda engine - Japanese dependable wiring - Hey, airbag equip..where do you find that?

[pksurveyor]

Based on what little Japanese I can read from the posting , the Zero 1 production ended at July, 2000.

[scannon]

That car looked like it was about 3/4 size of a regular Seven when the second, American sized driver got into his car.

 

Neither one sounded like any 1.8 Mazda engine I've ever heard. Sounded more like a two stroke or maybe even a Wankel.

 

There was another video of the unveiling of a car that looked like the design was based on an XK120. Much easier on the eyes than their Seven.

[Sean]

That is not a Mitsuoka Zero-1. The Zero-1 looks like this: http://www.mitsuoka-motor.com/lineup/zero1_1800/index.html. My brother-in-law had one back in the 1990s.

 

Whatever they are, they look like fun.

[BusaNostra]

Here is another Zero 1 made in England

http://www.kitpartsdirect.com/page40.htm

[TheDingo8MyBaby]

That's actually the Microcar K-3. I believe only about 100 were made and it's powered by a 50cc motor in the back.

 

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.takerusoftware.no-ip.com%2Fmicrocar%2Fk-3%2Fk-3.htm&lp=ja_en&btnTrUrl=Translate

 

or http://www.takerusoftware.no-ip.com/microcar/k-3/k-3.htm if you can read japanese.

[scannon]

That's actually the Microcar K-3. I believe only about 100 were made and it's powered by a 50cc motor in the back.

 

That accounts for the strange motor sounds in the video. I wonder why they made it LHD for what was likely a Japan only car?

 

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