This superb example is one of the highly desirable Tommi Makinen Edition (TME) CP9A / SNGF2 cars and originally supplied to the Japanese Domestic Market, as most were.

Just 2,500 TME Lancers were produced between January 1991 and March 2001, being roughly equally split into batches of the five official colours.

This example is finished in Satellite Silver of which 680 were thought to have been produced.

This car’s chassis number prefix of CP9A-020 confirms its official TME status and its four digit serial number confirms it as the 1103rd to be produced.

This Evo VI spent the first four years and approximately 20,000 miles of its life in the country of its manufacture before being imported to the UK in 2004.

The Lancer was first registered with DVLA in April of that year and has since passed through the hands of six previous keepers.

Current owner, John, acquired the Evo in February 2021 with approximately 58,000 miles being registered on the odometer at that time.

With just 58,3...