OK, so I’ve got a silly obsession with the Mitsubishi Cordia. I was only vaguely aware of the Cordia/Tredia back in the 1980s, but since then it has come to symbolize crazy pre-Boredom Era Japanese automotive design plus drive home the point that not all Japanese cars were more reliable than Detroit products back then. So, my heart leaps when I see a Cordia, be it on the street, on the race track… or awaiting a one-way trip to a Chinese steel factory. Here’s a non-turbo Cordia I found in Northern California last month. (Read More…)
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Tagged as 1980s, 1984, 1984 Mitsubishi Cordia, Cordia, Down On The Junkyard, junkyard, Junkyard Find, Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi Cordia
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