Buy This Glorious Pajero Evolution, Live Out JDM Off-Road Dreams

In the late 90s, Mitsubishi wanted to take their Dakar program to a production-based class. Their Pajero Evolution racer, however, was a far cry from the road car that gave it a name. The solution was a homologation special, a three-year run of road-going Pajero Evolutions. Just a few thousand of these unique super-SUVs were ever built, all sold in Japan. 25 years have passed, which means the earliest Pajero Evolutions are finaly legal for import into the U.S. and the long-forbidden homologation special is now available to American buyers. That means the timing of this Pajero Evolution's sale could not be better.

The car, currently in Scotland, is about to be listed on Collecting Cars. While the car does not have a full listing yet and the auction has not actually begun, the published photos show a particularly well-kept white Pajero Evo. This particular car is an automatic, but the site also has a manual 1997 model coming up for sale soon in Australia if that's a dealbreaker for you. Previous Pajero Evos on the site have sold as high as $52,000 and as low as $16,000.