Japan’s Mitsuoka is teasing again, and this time the fog is starting to clear. The company has released a second teaser of its upcoming model, with the official debut set for November 2026.
The new project is being built under the banner of returning to “the origins of Mitsuoka’s character.” The company promises an emotional and unusual model, but officially it still won’t confirm the name, body type, or technical platform.
Except now you can guess anyway. The latest image shows a fragment of the car’s front end — a two-tone fender finish in red and white, plus a chrome ring around the headlight. Foreign outlets are already confident this points to the first-generation Chevrolet Corvette (C1, 1953–1962), with its signature twin headlights and rounded curves.
The sketch was signed by designer Takanori Aoki, the same person behind Mitsuoka’s retro roadsters Himiko and Rock Star. That’s not a coincidence: underneath the new car’s skin will almost certainly be the Mazda MX-5 (ND) platform — the go-to base for every modern Mitsuoka sports car.
It increasingly looks like a successor to the Rock Star, the 2018–2022 model that mimicked the Corvette C2 and has since gone out of production, leaving a gap in Mitsuoka’s sports car lineup.
Mitsuoka is known for small production runs of cars with original retro styling built on mass-market Japanese platforms. More teasers are promised in August and September, with the company set to reveal a few more details before the November premiere.
The biggest question is still the car’s overall concept. What’s known so far are only fragments of the bigger picture, and any conclusions about the final design and technical package remain guesswork for now.
