Ford: "Hold my beer!"
Mach E missing from this photo. It's not a mustang it's an all electric small SUV, give it a new nameplate you cowards.
(I'm not some purist, just sharing the recognition that the Mach E is a vastly different product and should not have gotten the nameplate, and they used Mustang to evoke a sense of reliability/performance to push sales their experimental new SUV)
I own one and like the car, but the branding is awkward. There was one car related service that had me select and let me specify that it was the mach e, but the places system just printed out "mustang" and they were a bit confused.
And Puma is such a sporty sounding name too. And it ends up as yet another bland crossover.
Augh I love the early Puma. I wish I could get one in the states.
I owned an original puma, such a wonderful car. Then the new monstrosity arrived :( sad times
Not a big deal - the crapi was rightly viewed as such, and the puma was a rebadged fiesta; the cougar was the real car of that era. Still sucked though.
Consider this beehive kicked: The Eclipse was crap long before they tried to bloat it into a crossover SUV. Mitsubishi killed it by continuing to sell the things knowing damn well they had faulty sumps and oil pumps, so they'd constantly starve of oil and then explode. My sister's Eclipse was the only car I've ever witnessed to melt its own radiator. I think that pointless hump in the hood was actually to have a space to contain all your cams and valves when they left the chat at highway speed.
And then, back in the day it was Mitsubishi and not Kia or Nissan who were so desperate for sales that their dealerships were instructed to finance any moron at punitive interest no matter the risk and put them in a brand new base Eclipse or, occasionally, a Galant. Bad credit? No credit? No eyesight? No pulse? No problem!
So the early 2000's equivalent of "Big Altima Energy" was you inevitably found that any unexploded Eclipse driven by anyone who wasn't a tuner was instead being piloted by somebody who had no business whatsoever operating a motor vehicle. Sure, that was really a problem with the drivers and not the car, but it means that to this very day every time you see one you still let out that disgruntled sigh and give it an extra couple of car lengths of room.
I await with interest my imminent crucifixion by angry Eclipse owners, now. Go on, give it to me. I am invincible!
The hump was for the DOHC.
Just like the 3000gt’s humps were for the active shock connectors.
The engines were crammed in there so they had to make some design decisions to get it all to fit.
What year range was this?
I only ask because I used to have a 2003 eclipse (bought used in 2010 or so and kept until 2016) and I loved it, because it got decent mileage and nobody ever asked for a ride (which is why I still have a coupe), but I also really never encountered anyone else with one, much less driving like an idiot (and it wasn’t me, I’m a really cautious driver).. so I’m kinda curious. Coupes in general have never been particularly popular around here.
Did I just lucky and get one that survived?
The only thing I remember about the 2000's eclipse was the Girls that drove them. They were like jetta girls but hung out in pool halls.
I’ll never forgive them for killing off the Lancer. I love my Lancer, would love to upgrade, but nope.
I'll never forgive Mitsubishi for MY SHINS!
It's like the whole of Japan just decided to kill all the interesting or fun cars they made.
Toyota put out the Scion badge for the young'uns, marketing cars the same way Texas Instruments markets calculators: Let's sell replaceable colored face plates at $20 a pop, $30 for the pink ones. They were designed to last 5 years and the brand was discontinued like 7 years ago now. There are no more Scions in the world. Meanwhile the Toyota marque went full diaper bag. The Celica, Supra, MR2, all gone never to return, in their place were minivans with built-in vacuums and other 2000 pound self-propelled diaper bags. If they made a 2-door Corolla, they would have discontinued it. And for the folks who sit and watch the Weather Channel while waiting to die, one of the dull colored unnamed loafers on the Lexus lot is waiting for you.
Honda did basically the same thing at the same time though they weren't as Japanese about it; they kept making an Accord with a spoiler on it.
Subaru and Mitsubishi both kind of faded into the background to the point you forget they ever existed and Isuzu and Suzuki both actually stopped making cars for the North American market.
And the Koreans didn't really rise up to fill the gap left by the Japanese.
Yeah seriously, especially that last bit. Hyundai is absolutely killing it with their N series right now.
Wait... this isn't loss.
They got Mustanged!
It’s sad that we probably will never see Mitsubishi make “VR-4” vehicles again. I’d love to see a modern version of the galant and 3000gt on a shared platform. Japanese muscle was really cool.
The VR4 with all wheel drive, all wheel steering, and a hardtop convertible was YEARS ahead of its time. They threw pearls before swine.
Throw the WRX up there too
What do you mean? At least the new WRX is still a sedan, still AWD, still has a boxer, and can still be bought as a manual.
Sure, it's making about the same horsepower as 20 years ago, and it got progressively heavier as Subaru needed to add more safety equipment to remain compliant, but it's nowhere near as bad as Ford and Mitsubishi taking legendary name plates and slapping them on crossover SUVs.
80s Celica/Supras are still my favorite
We had an 84 Celica GT hatch when I was a little boy. I'd been told it had something like 386,000 miles when it was parked in like 2003 and it still ran. It just had a bunch of other issues. Good old R engines. They'll outlive the death of the sun with basic maintenance.
One of the Celicas looked like a 7/8 scale Mustang, those were cool.
Mitsubishi is dead to me.
1993 eagle talon tsi, ‘nuff said…
My mate had a BEAUTIFUL eagle talon with a giant stylized eagle on the hood. Until the engine exploded.
I loved my ‘96 ESi. I ended up getting Hahn Racecraft’s stage 2 kit for it but the head gasket ended up going. Stupid weak head gasket in the 420a.
Those 2nd gen DSMs are a beauty, but the first gens also have a really good look as well. There’s one for sale up the road from me and I’ve thought about asking about it.
I modded the crap out of the first 2 gens. This is sad.
public transportation time ¯_(⊙_ʖ⊙)_/¯
As a former owner of a Mitsubishi 1996 Eclipse GS-T and 1997 GSX...it died for me when they did the weird model with the indented lines on the side.
Yeah that 3rd gen was ugly as fuck
Get used to it, SUVs are inevitable.
Never! You can take my roadster from my cold, dead hands. (Cause I'll probably get run over by an SUV driver who didn't see me.)
