J53 Final Edition

STORY

Mitsubishi built the Willys Jeep under licence in Japan from 1953, and the licensed truck stayed in production long after the company launched its own Pajero in 1982. Later trucks used Mitsubishi diesels such as the 4DR5 four-cylinder. In June 1998 the company said it would stop making Jeeps, with the last one due in August, because they no longer met new environmental and safety standards. Over about 45 years Mitsubishi sold roughly 200,000 of them in Japan, many to the government.