Lonsdale was a marque of car sold in the United Kingdom by the Colt Car Company[1] between 1982 and 1983. It took its name from the industrial suburb of Lonsdale in Adelaide, South Australia, where Mitsubishi Australia had an engine production facility. The only car sold under this brand was the Lonsdale, a badge engineered Mitsubishi Sigma (GJ). It was sold as the Lonsdale YD41 and the Lonsdale YD45. 700 were produced, although no cars have been proven to survive.[2]
The car was powered by one of three four cylinder engines of 1.6, 2.0 and 2.6 litres, producing respectively 81, 95 and 103 bhp.
The largest of these power units produced a maximum torque of 192 Nm., and was one of the largest post-war four cylinder engines produced.
Although the Sigma was merely an Australian version of Mitsubishi Motors' Colt Galant[3]