#Mitsuoka Rock Star

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Mitsuoka Rock Star, 2018. To celebrate their 50th anniversary the Japanese coachbuilder built 200 of these C2 Corvette replicas based on the ND generation Mazda MX-5. The cost, in 2018 was equivalent to $30,500/£23,700. In 2022 Mitsuoka built an additional one-off left hand drive Rockstar with a 2.0 litre engine (all other Rock Stars were powered by the MX-5's 1.5 litre DOHC Skyactiv-G motor).

[spandexual]

Ryuunosuke with Takeru: raised in a (mostly) traditional samurai environment specifically to be his lord's most loyal servant, happens to also be flamingly homosexual and an extremely dramatic theatre kid, these things are separate but together add up to A Lot

Ishiro with Taiya: idk but whatever you got going on CANNOT possibly explain why you're leaving snail trails in the passenger seat of his Mitsuoka Rock Star.

[driftingfuturefish]

Those are great options but may I suggest the mitsuoka rock star

These start out as 4th gen MX5

Before getting second gen corvette style front and rear.

show me a transmasculine car. but a little flamboyant with it.

Well, I pretty much literally asked for this.

So.

To me, a transmasculine car must be a car that underwent some sort of process -of transformation- that resulted in an aesthetic difference between before and after, right?

And that is very much a thing in cars. I mean, you don't even need to know about cars to know people transform them in all sorts of ways, right? But what I intend to talk about specifically here is front-end swaps - people smacking completely different front ends onto their cars to make them look a way they deem preferable - or sometimes just to save money over the original parts. Such is the story of the Sileighty (or sil80), which is a Nissan 180SX onto which drifters that fucked the front end put Nissan Silvia parts instead because they were cheaper and lighter. Before and after:

Now, potentially this may already satisfy your request, but let's keep going anyway: From the opposite swap -putting a 180SX front on the Nissan Silvia- nicknamed Onevia, before and after...

...was born an idea: see, some people thought what the Silvia really needed weren't the headlights from the 180SX, but the ones from a decade younger Honda Odyssey minivan. I don't know why they thought that but it turns out the custom bodykit they created around the concept proved them right.

Now, since as you might have gathered before the Silvia and 180SX front ends are interchangeable, this custom bodykit also bolts right up to the 180SX. Let's see the before and after on that...

Yeah, I feel like we're pretty close.

Although, for the sake of completion, I must add that Nissan also pulled this "different front end for different body styles" trick with the Skyline and its wagon version, the Stagea - and many Stagea owners felt the need to rectify that by installing the Skyline front end on their cars, resulting in the below before and after:

And now, on a completely unrelated note purely because it's pretty rare you get an excuse to bring this up, while some say the 90s Subaru Sambar Dias -also called... well, many other things, really- was the peak of personal transportation (it's me, I'm some), someone else at Subaru clearly thought it wasn't classic enough - hence the special Dias Classic edition (as featured in Love Hina!), which I'm sure was right up someone's alley.

I'm not that confident in my awareness of what I just went on about, so I would very much appreciate some feedback and, of course, reblogs to make the stupidest poll I've seen in quite some time get even bigger a sample size than it ever deserved.

Links in blue are posts of mine explaining the words in question - if you liked this post, you might like those!

[mensfactory]

Mitsuoka “ Los Angeles Blue” Rock Star

[mitsuokamotor]

ロックスター、日曜日まで富山ショールームで展示中です🎸 遠方から見にきて下さった方もいてありがとうございます！ - The Rock Star will be exhibited in Toyama Showroom until Sunday! - 展示スケジュール https://www.mitsuoka-motor.com/events/20181215-42453/ - - - - #Rockstar #LA #LosAngeles #Blue #Rocknroll #Mitsuoka #Mitsuokamotor #ロックスター #光岡自動車 #富山 (at Mitsuoka) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtDIrLylqle/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=hvg10c2t3q79

[usedcarshoustontx]

Corvette-Aping Mitsuoka Rock Star Is Now Available in LHD — But There’s A Catch

[smoothshift]

The Mitsuoka ‘Rock Star’ is a Mazda MX-5 in Corvette fancy dress via /r/Autos

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Mitsuoka Rock Star, 2018. A C2 Corvette replica based on the Mazda MX-5 by the Japanese coachbuilder to celebrate their 50th anniversary (Mitsuoka was formed in 1968)

[bai4zi]

Mitsuoka Rock Star 撸先生：看片神器，每日更新，高清流畅，无需翻墙，t.cn/EVvnoK4

[mitsuokamotor]

富山ショールームでロックスターを展示しています！是非見に来てください！🤩 - Rock Star currently exhibited inside the Toyama Showroom! - - - - #Rockstar #LA #LosAngeles #Blue #Rocknroll #Mitsuoka #Mitsuokamotor #ロックスター #光岡自動車 #富山 (at Mitsuoka) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs_1spxFDVP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=k2zl0ui57t5o

[fantasticmiraclementality]

รถญี่ปุ่น

เอาใจคนรักรถคลาสสิคกับ MITSUOKA ROCK STAR สปอร์ตหลังคาเปิดประทุนราคาราว 1.37 ล้านบาท

ค่ายรถแปลงชื่อดังของญี่ปุ่น MITSUOKA MOTOR เปิดรับจองงานแปลงโปรเจกต์ใหม่ล่าสุด MITSUOKA ROCK STAR รถสปอร์ตหลังคาเปิดสไตล์เรโทรรุ่นพิเศษ ที่จะพาย้อนห้วงเวลาไปนานถึง 55 ปี เพื่อสัมผัสกับ CHEVROLET CORVETTE STINGRAY CONVERTIBLE (C2) ในปี 1963 บนพื้นฐานของ MAZDA MX-5 ROADSTER เมื่อโรดสเตอร์ญี่ปุ่นคอสเพลย์เป็นสปอร์ตอเมริกัน ก็จะเป็นอะไรเจ๋งๆให้ทุกคนได้เห็นกันแบบนี้แหละค่าา

[bhabegger]

Mitsuoka Rock Star — Dieser Corvette-Klon war ein MX-5 Die Corvette C2 ist Kult, fast kaum zu bekommen, geschweige denn zu bezahlen. Der Mazda MX-5 ist auf seine Art auch Kult, ein populäres Modell und bezahlbar.

[tuetaunus]

Der japanische Karossier Mitsuoka ist vor allem darauf spezialisiert, Großserienfahrzeuge in schwülstig-barocke Sonderlinge zu verwandeln, die in meist skurriler Art vornehmlich alte britische Autolegenden zitieren. Doch jetzt haben die Japaner den Look der US-Ikone Corvette C2 String Ray kopiert und auf den Mazda MX-5 übertragen. Das neue Modell in historischer Aufmachung wurde „Rock Star“ getauft. Euer Ingo vom ExpertenTeam derAutoErlebniswelt-Tü Taunus Bildquelle: Mitsuoka

[hoory]

RT @mitsuokamotorjp: ショールームから写真が届きました！ 今日から名古屋ショールームで展示中です😍 Mitsuoka Rock Star currently located at our Nagoya showroom! #nagoya #rockstar #mitsuoka #mitsuokamotor #名古屋 #光岡自動車 #ロックスター https://t.co/IUtttvdUZt