I have noticed that most of the Manufacturers are starting to use the same nose job on all their line-ups once they settle on one model. Example: Acura, Nissan, Mercedes, and now Mitsubishi. There are more but can't remember at the moment.

 

Yep, especially since all the attention is on the evo. I thought they would be big in the modding world, considering the previous generation.

 

They need to throw the EVO drivetraine in that thing......

 

not forgotten.....rejected. has a little something to do with which wheels are connected to the gas pedal, lol

 

This car lost its appeal with the tuner crowd when Mitsubishi dropped the turbocharged engine. I want to see this car with the same engine as the Evo, that would bring it back from obscurity.

 

it's been a joke since '00. Shoulda made a ralliart versionof the eclipse instead of the lancer

 

audi/vw too

 

Definitely forgotten. They ruined ANY and ALL following it had when they redesigned it without AWD and atleast a Turbo option. It got heavy, slow, had quirky styling and got more expensive. They tried to bring back the spirit of the second gen with the current model, but that is full of fail too.

Mitsubishi only has one solid car line IMO, and that is the Lancer. IMO a very strong car in that class.

 

This model has been selling horribly. I donr any on the streets here in AZ. I agree the 4g63 motor in this thing minus 500 lbs would be amazing.

 

The front bumper screams GTR IMO but good move on the projector headlights.

 

the "new" eclipse appealed to me once.

RalliArt Eclipse
400hp evo drivetrain
awd
lightened


for about 5minutes.
then i found out it wasn't going into production.
fail.
epic #*$(ing fail.

 

I didn't like this design, and I had the chance to drive it a few times....and was horrified at how impractically crap the turning radius was. Driving around mall/costco/you-name-it parking lots was actually STRESSFUL because you might not make it around into the next parking lane without careful distance calculation....




oh, and forgot about the seriously inadequate interior quality.

 

exactly . . . mitsubishi doesn't know what it's doing anymore . . .

 

I think it's more like they don't have the money to do cool things like that anymore.

The current Outlander was supposed to carry a lot of weight for the company, it hasn't. The new Lancer, sure it's an improvement, but I've seen more of the new Corollas out than the new Lancers around (which was released before the new Corolla). Evos are great, but it's a niche vehicle that doesn't give Mitsubishi the financial liberty to do MORE cool things.