page_title: Mitsubishi Minica
section_title: Fifth generation
hierarchical_section_title: Mitsubishi Minica / Fifth generation
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: H14V型 三菱・ミニカエコノ ZEO。2013 MMF岡崎にて撮影。日本の軽自動車における550cc時代の最終期にあたる1988年より、1年だけ販売されたホットモデルで、現存数は極めて少ないとされる。 English: Mitsubishi Minica Econo ZEO(H14V). Taken in 2013 MMF Okazaki. It is from 1988 that corresponds to the final stage of the 550cc era in the K-car of Japan, a hot model sold only one year, the number of existing and very small.
context_page_description: The Mitsubishi Minica is a kei car produced by Mitsubishi Motors mainly for the Japanese domestic market from 1962 to 2011. It was first built by Shin Mitsubishi Heavy-Industries, one of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' three regional automotive companies until they were merged in 1964, and as such predates MMC itself. In Japan, it was sold at a specific retail chain called Galant Shop. In 2011, the car was replaced with the Mitsubishi eK.
context_section_description: The fifth-generation Minica was introduced in February 1984 as a front engined, front wheel drive vehicle for the first time. It offered three- and five-door configurations, increased size and a torsion beam/coil spring rear suspension. With its "tall-boy" design it was much more spacious inside. It retained the G23B engine, but modernized with a timing belt rather than the old noisy timing chain. The Minica sedan had 33 PS (24 kW), the sparsely trimmed Econo commercial version 31 PS (23 kW), and the Turbo gained an intercooler and now offered 42 PS (31 kW). Air conditioning finally became an option. Reflecting the design improvements, Mitsubishi advertised the car as a worthy competitor for the considerably larger cars of the one-litre class. A considerable improvement on the old model, sales of the passenger model tripled year-on-year in its first month on the market. Sales of the Econo doubled.
  In September 1985 a four-wheel drive model with a live rear axle was introduced. In January 1988, as the bubble economy and the kei-class horsepower war were both heating up, an aero-kit version of the Turbo was introduced to compete with Suzuki's Alto Works and Daihatsu's Mira Turbo TR-XX. Called the Turbo ZEO it was equipped with the same 50 PS (37 kW) carburetted engine as the regular Turbo model; sales were low. There was also a low-priced, well-equipped version of the Minica Econo called the Tico, as well as a new top-of-the-line five-door sedan called the Minica Exceed.
  This generation was the first to reach export markets, usually labelled Mitsubishi Towny, originally with a two-cylinder 783 cc engine and a four-speed manual transmission. Later (1987) it received a three-cylinder 796 cc engine with 45 PS (33 kW) and a five-speed gearbox (also locally manufactured by CMC in Taiwan, only as a five-door); a three-door panel van was also marketed abroad.
caption: Mitsubishi Minca Econo Turbo ZEO (H14V)
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