The Mitsuoka Like (雷駆) is a five-door
hatchback
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electric car
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produced by the
Japan
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ese automaker
Mitsuoka
is a small Japanese automobile company. It is noted for building cars with unconventional styling, some of which are modern while most others are retro-styled to imitate the look of American, European and particularly British cars of the 1950s ...
Motors between 2010 and 2012. It is based on the
Mitsubishi i MiEV
The Mitsubishi i-MiEV (MiEV is an acronym for ''Mitsubishi innovative Electric Vehicle'') is a five-door electric city car produced in the 2010s by Mitsubishi Motors, and is the electric version of the Mitsubishi i. Rebadged variants of the i ...
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It was unveiled in 2010 and was discontinued in 2012. The wheelbase was extended to help accommodate five passengers, unlike the i-MiEV, which only seats four. Its distinctive front styling separates it from other rebadged i-MiEVs, including the Citroen C-Zero and the Peugeot Ion. It was priced at US$55,000, before a Japanese tax credit, which lowered the priced to US$14,550.
The name "Like" is an indirect romanization of , which is a portmanteau of 雷 (thunder, referring to its electric powertrain) and 駆 (drive, more specifically drivetrain).
Another electric car produced by Mitsuoka was th
Like-T3 a three-wheeler produced from 2012-2022.
Like
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Production electric cars
Electric city cars
Cars introduced in 2010
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