A new record has been set for Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution at auction, after the company sold off its UK heritage car fleet.
The Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI Tommi Makinen Edition sold for £100,100 on 30 April. The previous record was held by a delivery-mileage Evo IX, which made £99,000 in 2017.
The auction of the company’s heritage car fleet comes ahead of Mitsubishi pulling out of the UK entirely later this year.
Other lots sold last month include a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX MR FQ-360 by HKS, sold for £68,900. A Lancer Evolution X, one of the final batch of FQ-440 MR special editions and the last official Evo sold in the UK, went under the hammer for £58,100.
A Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX Group N Works rally car – a two-time championship-winner driven by Guy Wilkes and co-driven by Phil Pugh – sold for £61,700.
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Elsewhere, a Mk1 Colt Lancer 1.4 – the first Mitsubishi registered in the UK – made £15,000, while a Colt Galant 2000 GLII sold for £11,600 and a Mitsubishi Galant GLSi rally replica managed £12,500.
Meanwhile, a completely original Mk1 Mitsubishi Shogun sold for £16,000, a Mitsubishi Jeep J27 attracted a top bid of £20,600, and a Mk2 Shogun V6 SWB sold for a healthy £9,600.
In total, the auction raised £627,100 and attracted a total of 1,287 bids across all 51 lots.
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