Continuing the discussion from Sunny Motor Company:
When Sunny Motors Co. emerged from the Japanese economic crisis of the 1980s, they saw a niche that they could fulfill in the auto market, and, quite desperately, they rushed the production of a new, fairly inexpensive two-door coupe.
The Sunny Pandion premiered in 1994 to little fanfare, boasting a paltry 145hp for its RM602B flat-6 engine. However, for its lack of initial power, the RM602 engine soon proved to be a highly capable engine in the aftermarket scene.
Sunny would continue to make incremental improvements with the Pandion from 1995 to 1999. However, they would quickly find success in the 1997 JGTC series with their NIJIMA-TOMY Pandion GTF race car, skyrocketing the popularity of the model in the eyes of the Japanese car community.
Several factory-tuned variants would emerge from their successes in motorsports, from the Pandion ZZ to the Pandion Silphantom.
In 2000, Sunny would declare the end of production for the Pandion, and as a final farewell, they produced the Pandion Silphantom SpecA, which possessed an AWD drivetrain instead of its original RWD layout, and the improved RM602BZ sequential turbo engine would go on to produce 320hp.
