Remember the Mitsuoka Buddy? You know, the Toyota RAV4-based SUV that's been restyled to look like a classic American SUV in the vein of a Chevrolet Blazer or Suburban from the 1970s or '80s? It's ...

Japanese car culture is one of the most interesting in the world, with crazy-creations popping up on a regular basis. The world has become accustomed to the craziness of JDM tuner culture after it was ...

View post: Toyota Sienna vs Kia Carnival: Minivan Hybrids Head-to-Head Mitsuoka, one of Japan’s most eclectic tuners, can’t resist the market’s shift towards crossovers and SUVs. It alchemized the ...

Update (Dec. 1, 2020):Apparently the funky Mitsuoka Buddy is a hit in Japan—and all of them are sold out for a couple years. If you place a reservation now, Mitsuokawon't build your Buddy until 2023.

Mitsuoka Buddy is based on a Toyota RAV4, wearing Chevy K5 Blazer-style panels The Buddy is offered by a Japanese tuner/automaker known for retro redesigns Mitsuoka has recently offered a ...

The first Mitsuoka Buddy has just rolled off the line in anticipation of its release later this month on June 24, Car Watch reports. Now that I've seen the Buddy in motion, I get why people love this ...

It all started with Gran Turismo. From those early PlayStation days, Sean was drawn to anything with four wheels. Prior to joining the Roadshow team, he was a freelance contributor for Motor Authority ...

Granted, two years of RAV4-to-Buddy conversion production for a small company like Mitsuoka amounts to a schedule of just 200 examples, but the take-up suggests the brand could be on to a winner if it ...

It's that time of year again: the time to buy gifts for the next holiday season—for testing purposes, of course—just to make sure they're suitable to be purchased again as a gift in about 11 months.

If there’s any corner that Mitsuoka has claimed in the auto industry, it’s the corner of quirky and sometimes hideous cars. The niche Japanese automaker is the same company that gave us the Rock Star, ...

The Japanese domestic market never ceases to amaze us and, when it comes to four-wheeled oddities coming from the Land of the Rising Sun, you can’t go wrong with Mitsuoka. As a sign of the times, the ...