Remember the scene in The Fast and the Furious when the busted up Supra rolls into the shop and Brian says “pop the hood,” and everyone gasps when they see the 2JZ under the hood…as if they would expect anything else under the hood of a Mk IV Supra? Anyway, the car that should have […]
Back before AMG became the designator of sportiness in a new Mercedes-Benz, the German company would work with OEMs to turn out tuned version of their cars. We mostly think of AMG for their work with Mercedes-Benz sedans (C36 AMG, for instance) but there was a time when they collaborated with Mitsubishi to turn out […]
Before I get too far into this next car I want to point out that it is monstrously overpriced, even if it only has 13,500 miles on the odometer. Despite the high price tag, it is an interesting example of the Chrysler corporation’s obsession with badge engineering. The Sapporo was a rebadged version of the […]
Mitsubishi didn’t start selling cars under its own name in Australia 1980, producing cars in the old Chrysler Australia factory in SA. It was a fairly open secret that Mitsubishi was behind Chrysler’s smaller offerings; this Galant, and the Sigma which replaced it the next year. Find this 1976 Chrysler Galant for sale in Maddington, WA, […]
Rally-inspired technology was as much of a buzzword in the ’80s and ’90s as Nurburgring-developed suspension is today. Yet the principle is the same. Who among us doesn’t want to play racecar in a family sedan? Ergo, the latest Porsche Panamera and the white wonder you’re looking at today are only differentiated by their price […]
The first generation Dodge Colt (sold from 1971-73) was a re-badged A50-series Mitsubishi Colt Galant. The Colt was a simple front-engine rear drive sedan with aspirations to be a competitor to the Gremlin, Pinto, Vega, 510, Corolla & Civic. It isn’t necessarily a bad car, but it suffers from the general perception of Chrysler products […]
Back in 1975 Dodge worked with Mitsubishi to create a car for the buyer who liked the idea of Japanese quality without the stigma of having bought from foreign devils, a strange and wondrous novelty at the time. The end result was a front engine, rear drive platform shared between the Mitsubishi Galant, Plymouth/Dodge Colt […]
The first generation Dodge Colt was a rebadged version of the Japanese Mitsubishi Galant and also sold under the sweet Plymouth Cricket moniker in Canada. Colt or Cricket, the basic front-engine rear-drive Japanese economy car lends itself well to Shakotan (シャコタン) style, which is typified by extreme lowering, wide deep dish wheels and flared fenders. […]
The Plymouth Sapporo was a rebadged version of the Mitsubishi Galant Lambda and exported in small quantities to the US Market to compete with base model Mustangs, Celicas & Camaros. Mitsubishi’s pony car didn’t last past the 1983 model year and was replaced by the DSM (diamond star motors) front-drive based coupes. Find this 1982 […]
The first generation Dodge Colt was a re-badged Mitsubishi Galant and also sold in Canada as the Plymouth Cricket (best cheap car name ever!). The Colt was intended to be Chrysler’s answer to the GM’s Vega & Ford’s Pinto, but really was cross-shopped with Datsun 510 and Toyota Corolla. Today’s 1973 Dodge Colt needs some […]