Mitsubishi UK heritage auction concludes with world record hammer price of £100,100 for its Lancer Evolution VI Tommi Mäkinen
May 6, 2021 by Mitsubishi Motors in the UK![Mitsubishi UK heritage auction concludes with world record hammer price of £100,100 for its Lancer Evolution VI Tommi Mäkinen](images/articleimages/mitsubishi-uk-heritage-auction_001-400.jpg)
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The rare, pristine and completely original Mk1 Mitsubishi Shogun sold for £16,000, while the even rarer Mitsubishi Jeep J27 attracted a top bid of £20,600. Not so rare but equally as spotless, the Mk2 Shogun V6 SWB sold for a healthy £9,600 while the newest vehicles on the fleet, the 2015 Outlander PHEV and the L200 Desert Warrior, attracted top bids of £16,000 and £30,100 respectively. The brand's iconic supercars, the Mitsubishi Starion and Mitsubishi 3000GT, both in exceptional condition, sold for £21,100 and £24,500 respectively, record values for both vehicles in a UK auction. Amongst the private number plates sold at auction, the four-character plates ending in CCC all performed extremely well, with 1 CCC topping £24,000 and all nine places (1-9 CCC) topping £121,700 in total. Another coveted registration, P1HEV, attracted a top bid of £4,500. Last, but certainly not least, the 7/10th working replica of a 1917 Mitsubishi Model A, the first ever vehicle produced by Mitsubishi, sold for £13,700 undoubtedly a world record for 7/10 scale Mitsubishi Model A models. In total, the auction generated £627,100 and attracted a total of 1,287 bids across all 51 lots. Mitsubishi Motors in the UK Operations Director, Paul Bridgen, who was previously General Manager at the company's RalliArt division and Team Principal when Wilkes and Pugh won their back-to-back British Rally Championships, commented: 'These vehicles represent not only a huge part of Mitsubishi's heritage and history in the UK, they are also very special vehicles in their own right. They each have a unique story to tell and they have been cherished and cared for from the day we acquired them. I have overseen the development of some of these vehicles personally so it is difficult to say goodbye to them but the values they have achieved assures me that they will all go to enthusiastic new owners who understand the provenance and importance of these cars and who will cherish them and preserve them for future generations.'
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