You can lump 80s Japanese cars into two categories — the first is the appliance machines that came from Toyota or Honda — they are reliable and efficient, but not particularly exciting or cool. The second category is the oddballs, the weirdos, the Subarus, Mitsubishis, and Nissans of the world, the interesting cars that offer […]
Mitsubishi was probably at its peak during the 1980s after it bought out Chrysler Australia in 1980. Their Sigma sedan was a popular family car, the Colt an equally popular hatchback, and the Pajero sold well too. In 1983 they added a new model to the range; the Cordia. Unlike much of the range, not […]
Remember that What Am I? feature where we showed a picture of a car under a pile of rubble and after somebody solved the puzzle everybody in unison say, “a what?” Yeah, this is one of those. The rarest of the rare, a car that was so terrible that it has been collectively scrubbed from […]
This Monday’s What Am I post featured a picture of a compacted Mitsubishi Cordia from Oakland Jeff, and some of DT’s readers put on their detective hats/capes and solved it. I even reached out to Murilee Martin from of Car & Driver and The Truth About Cars and he confirmed that this was a famous […]