Mashimitsu is a japanese car company, that is easy to compare with Mazda, Nissan or Honda in RL.
History
The japanese car brand Mashimitsu was founded in the city of Hakodate in the Hokkaido prefecture by two japanese mechanics, named Feng Mashimi and Kashimo Tsu in 1925. It was a brand for tiny boats before WWII. After both of them died at the Hiroshima desaster after visiting their familys, Yin Lee Mashimi, Fengs wife, took the brand over and decided to change from building boats to building cars. The first cars of the brand weren’t well known, because it was a time, where nearly nobody could have had the money for a car. At the begin of the 70s the sales instantly increased by a huge number because Yin Lee Mashimi started to ship their cars to the europeans and north + south americans. Yin Lee Mashimi died after a brave fight against cancer in 1972. Her son Saitama Mashimi took the brand over and honored his mother with the japanese only model “YinLee special”. After he took over, he decided to build different cars for the three different markets and took the australian market in its progamm. His plans worked until the beginning of the 80s, where it just was to expensive to build three different cars for the same car size. Saitama Mashimi took Mashimitsu to the top of the japanese sales ranking and changed the headquaters from Hakodate to Sapporo, where Mashimitsu builded the Mashimitsu Tower that is 120m high. In 1988 Mashimitsu started to sell their cars in Russia, south korea, the middle east and Indonesia. In 1992 followed China, malaysia and the south eastern asian countries. Saitama Mashimi left the boss place to his son Miro Mashimi in 1996. The sales in south africa, india and the maghrebstates started in 2000. It was the first time ever, that Mashimitsus where available on every continent.
After the last Y3 Mashisport was a fail, Mashimitsu only planned with a few sells and were surpriced, after the Mashisport grew to one of the best selling cars in the hothatch class within a year.
The Mashisport only was a little preview on the new Y3 line.
Here are the new Y3s, they are available as the versions Base, Bright, Lux and Mashisport (The first two are available as a wagon and hatchback).
The Y3 Base has a basic front design, with a little bit less chrome. Its engine is a turbocharged 1.4 4 cylinder that puts 127hp out.
After one year without a Y2, that replicated in a huge minus at sale numbers, Mashimitsu released the new generation. There will be 5 different versions and it will only be available as a 5 door hatchback.
One of the two new versions is the Y2 Young, that is specially for young drivers, with the tiniest engine, but more equipment than the Base model.
The Y2 Base is the cheap one, that drives on the same engine as the Young, but it has nearly no equipment, that lets Mashimitsu give it to the costumers for a low price.
Your whole lineup looks quite nice. It’s actually quite rare, if not outright impossible, nowadays to find a (sub)compact with double-wishbone front and rear suspension (and on the Y3, five-valve heads for its engine) in real life, but the high-performance versions ought to be particularly competitive.
The Yuso convertible is also clearly a looker; however, there are quite a few issues holding it back. First and foremost, this is a large front-drive car powered by what is essentially a hot hatch engine, and as such, it might not feel like a premium product to drive at all, especially at or near wide-open throttle. Also, a sports interior is not comfortable enough for a premium convertible meant for cruising down Sunset Boulevard. I would have preferred it if it were rear-wheel drive and had at least an extra pair of cylinders. It’s still a beautiful car to behold, though, especially from the front.
Thanks for the suggestions, I wanted it to be a V6 too, but automation wouldn`t let me give it one, because it would have been to big. To the interior thing, you are right when I think about it now, I just gave it a sports interior because its predecessors werent even nearly as premium as it.
It is the new top of the Y3 line, and gives it gives all of us a taste of the new Mashimitsu design, beeing the second car that has been designed under our new design team!
To the car itself … it is planed to fight against other hot hatches with the all new 1.8 I4 T engine!
It takes balls to offer something like the flagship of the Y6 line with a manual, but few of its real-life equivalents offer one, so kudos to you for making a self-shifter optional - if it is ever available at all. However, 5.6 degrees of body roll is quite frankly unacceptable, although it can be fixed with stiffer springs, dampers and anti-roll bars (but not too stiff, obviously). Also, a wagon should have five seats, not four. Other than that, it’s a decent choice for anyone looking for a fast wagon, with a handsome front-end treatment.
As for the Y3 RS, it’s very quick off the mark thanks to its AWD system, but the fuel consumption is higher than it would usually be for a hot hatch, primarily because feeding a low-displacement engine with large amounts of boost will cause a significant decrease in efficiency. And the red accents seem overdone when combined with the excess chrome. Nevertheless, it’s a promising start for the model line.
Thanks for mentioning it, I totally overlooked the body roll and it will be fixed in a facelift. By giving it a manual, we achived the relative low price. A sequential version will be available (for a little bit more money) soon after the release of the stock Y6. You are right with the seats, but we build it as a four seater, because the Y6 actually wasn`t planed to be a wagon at all, but we wanted to give the costumers what they want (at least in some parts of europe, where nearly 80% of the wagons will be sold), five seats might be a option for a facelift. Thanks, that was our wish!
Moving on to the Y3 MaSport RS, I agree that the fuel economy isn`t the best, because we focused (maybe to much) on the performance, I will try to do it better on future cars. We thought about the red accents and offer them as a optional, free feature.
Is Mashimitsu working on a Hypercar?
Some people spotted a hypercar with a Mashimitsu badge driving around the area of Mashimitsus european headquaters in Germany! They took some photos and posted it on the internet. After asking Mashimitsu Motors, they only said that there might be something coming soon! Later we found a picture of a prototype called YRx.
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