1979 - Juavos, Garcia’s capital. MV Design’s and Duhen Co. JP’s personnel were present at a series of meetings that would define who would be the new provider of niche off-road cars for the island, parting with Garcia’s stronghold brand, Bogliq. The prototype sent for evaluation was a lengthened and widened Duhen Shonen, a Kei offroader with some years on the Japanese market as a more capable alternative to the Duhen Shota Kei van. That was also when the Peak version was born, the choice version for exporting to foreign markets. The car would be powered by a retuned Bogliq 1400cc boxer 4, though their proprietary 5-speed gearbox and 4wd system.
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In one of those meetings, an agreement between Bogliq, MV Design, and later Bridgell started to be developed. Since last year, Bogliq had been importing a small sports car to the island, called Buccanneer. It wasn’t being the sales success expected by the company, so a facelift and more powerful engines were being developed to be released next year. A mutual interest in making an unforgettable, high-performance version of the car was found, and after some months of development, a new body kit, suspension tune, and upgrades on their new V6 engine transformed it into the absolutely bonkers MVD-SPV 838SVP, or Buccanneer Stage 1 for short.
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This car was produced by request, with no limited numbers. But to staple the nameplate on the books of automotive history forever, a limited, hand-built DAOHC Twin Turbo V6 powered, MVD-SPV 841R, or Stage 2, was produced. This car was so wild and untamed, that the purchase price included a driving course to learn to tame the beast. 800 cars were produced to be sold by Bogliq, with custom numbered plates USA-000 to USA-800, and a further 80, UK-00 to UK-80 right-hand drive cars to be sold by Bridgell in England, along with the Stage 1 RHD cars ordered though Bridgell dealerships.
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This also opened the UK market to receive the RHD rebadged standard V6 variants, starting in 1980.
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Link to Bogliq’s lore
Link to Bridgell’s lore