Category: Mitsubishi
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10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About the Mitsubishi Starion Turbo
The Mitsubishi Starion arrived before the Japanese performance-car boom was in full swing, yet it already had the essential ingredients: turbo power, rear-wheel drive, pop-up headlamps and a body that looked ready for a Group B stage. Here are ten details that make it far more interesting than its 1980s poster-car shape suggests. 1. It…
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10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About the Mitsubishi FTO
The Mitsubishi FTO became one of Britain’s defining 1990s grey imports: curving coupé styling, a compact V6 and an automatic gearbox with a genuinely novel manual mode. Yet the range was far broader than the familiar GPX badge suggests. Here are ten facts behind Mitsubishi’s affordable Japanese sports coupé. The FTO’s low, curved shape was…
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10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI
The Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI looks like the most aggressive member of the original compact Evo family, but its significance goes deeper than the huge rear wing and rally-bred stance. It was the final CP9A Evolution, the basis for the celebrated Tommi Mäkinen Edition and one of the cars that cemented Mitsubishi’s late-1990s performance reputation.…
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Mitsubishi Eclipse 1G and 2G: GS-T, GSX and Buying Guide
UNUSUAL CARS MODEL GUIDE The first- and second-generation Mitsubishi Eclipse are American-built sport coupés from the Diamond-Star Motors era. The sought-after GS-T and GSX versions paired Mitsubishi’s turbocharged 2.0-litre 4G63 with front- or all-wheel drive, creating one of the most tunable performance platforms of the 1990s. Quick answer: choose GS-T for lower weight and simpler…