• Home
  • Makes
  • History
  • Maintenance
    • Engines By Make
    • Engine Components
    • Electrical & electronic
    • Gearbox & Drivetrain
    • Induction & Exhaust
    • Suspension Types
    • Tyres wheels Brakes
    • Vehicle Body types
  • Trivia
  • Register
  • "log in"
Manufacturers
1950s
Japan

Mikasa Okamura Mfg. Co. Ltd.

Mikasa Okamura Mfg. Co. Ltd.

Mikasa (ミ カ サ) was a car brand from Japan from the late 1950s to the early 1960s. 

History 

The company Okamura Seisakusho from Yokohama began in 1957 with the production of automobiles called the Mikasa, the Mikasa debuted at the 4th Japan Automobile Show in 1957.

Special feature were the front-wheel drive and the revolutionary AK-4 automatic transmission powered by torque converter. An air-cooled two-cylinder four stroke boxer engine with 585 cc powered vehicles. In the later built two-door station wagon or Service van which looked like the 2 cv van with corrugated sides the engine produced between 18 and 21 hp and in the two-seater Roadster Touring or Touring Car between 21 and 23 hp. Production was only around 500 of all three models and by late 1960 ended production.

Mikasa

Related items
Japanese Vehicles 1960s | Japanese Vehicles 1950s | Commercial vehicles
  • Japan Previous 24 / 45 Next

1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s  1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s

  1. You are here:  
  2. Motor Car
  3. Motor car History
  4. Japan
  5. Mikasa (1957-1960)