Mitsubishi Evo VI Tommi Makinen Edition Sells For Record £100,100 At Heritage Fleet Auction

Mitsubishi UK’s auction of its prized heritage fleet has seen records smashed as eager buyers looked to snap up some of the company’s most prized models.

The star of the auction was a Lancer Evo VI Tommi Makinen Edition that sold for a record £100,100 ($139,139), narrowly beating the previous sales record of an Evo by £1,100. The car sold was #6 of 2500 units built worldwide and had been owned by Mitsubishi since new.

Also sold during the auction was an Evolution IX MR FQ-360 by HKS, which is one of just 200 built. It fetched an impressive £68,900 ($95,771), which makes it the third most expensive Evolution sold at a public auction. Meanwhile, an ultra-rare Evo X FQ-440 MR, one of just 40 ever made, sold for £58,100 ($80,759). The final Evo sold, a 2007 Evolution IX Group N Works Rally Car that won the British Rally Championship twice, brought in £61,700 ($85,763).

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Among the other vehicles sold at the auction included a Mitsubishi Starion that sold for £21,100 ($29,329) and a 3000GT that sold for £24,500 ($34,055), two UK sales records, Piston Heads reports. Elsewhere, a Shogun from the heritage fleet and a 2015 Outlander both sold for £16,000 ($22,240) each, while an L200 Desert Warrior fetched £30,100 ($41,839). Other Mitsubishis sold included a Colt Lancer 1.4 (£15,000 – $20,850), a Galant GLSi (£12,500 – $17,375), a Colt Galant 2000 GLII (£11,600 – $16,124), and a 7:10 scale of a 1917 Mitsubishi Model A that sold for £13,700 ($19,043).

“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,” Mitsubishi UK operations director Paul Bridgen said. “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.”