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ArcticTsi
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Awesome find, Jose!
How is it that I never heard of these cars before? How many did they make? Are any of them still in existence?
Leon, not sure how many we're produced. The above pictured one I attached that is not from the magazine was one I found for sale. It was in the Japanese version of an auto trader. A lot of the cars ended up in privateer garages. You still see them show up to open wheel events. The last one I saw was 2 years ago at one of the Idler's events.
On a side note when mitsu decided to go with the 2liter 4G they knew they had something special so they really tried to push it out to everyone and get it noticed. The Formula Mirage series was just one of those pieces. It was a full blown point series program with something like a $200,000 purse for the series champion. So that enticed some notable racers to commit to the series. Keiichi Tsuchiya was the 1st years champion(1990). Better known to the the younger crowd as the drift king and of Option, Best Motoring and D1 fame. It's demise was F3 had just started and the Formula Honda And Formula Toyota series got a better foothold and enjoyed greater popularity.
There were other 4G series Mitsu tried to get rolling but they never took off past one or two series. I'll post those as I unbox them.
Sorry for the length, but I know some of you enjoy the history.
Later
Jose
Just did a quick search on the web and found some recent pics.
1.Some guys who have the formula mirage and still race it, in the one pic with the red car the formula mirage is actually the white one in the background with "3FOX" on it.
2. Looks like one is sitting in the HKS museum.
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