The Mitsubishi Nessie is a

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, mated to an automatic transmission. Styling features include 22 inch front and 23 inch rear wheels, glass panels in the lower half of the doors to enhance visibility in town or off-road, and an arrow-shaped roll bar/roof-rack which extends from the C-pillars over the glass roof, without being affixed to it. Although it was rumoured that the second generation Airtrek/Outlander might have incorporated styling elements from the Nessie, this never materialised, as the overall shape and design details proved too complex for practical mass production."2005 Mitsubishi-Italdesign Nessie Concept"
, Justin Couture, ''Canadian Auto Press'', BCautocentral.com

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"The Mitsubishi Nessie"
Italdesign press release, February 16, 2005
"Mitsubishi Nessie Concept"
AutomobileMag.com {{Mitsubishi Motors vehicles

Nessie NESSIE (New European Schemes for Signatures, Integrity and Encryption) was a European research project funded from 2000 to 2003 to identify secure cryptographic primitives. The project was comparable to the NIST AES process and the Japanese Gov ...

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