I'll never forgive Mitsubishi for what they did to the Eclipse

Ford: "Hold my beer!"

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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)

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- 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.
  
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And Puma is such a sporty sounding name too. And it ends up as yet another bland crossover.

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Augh I love the early Puma. I wish I could get one in the states.

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I owned an original puma, such a wonderful car. Then the new monstrosity arrived :( sad times

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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.

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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!

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I lived through the 90s and can confirm that the Mitsubishi Gallant was the Altima of its day

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- Damn I had no idea the Galant had such a bad rep in the US...
  
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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.

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- My dream car is still a 3000GT VR-4 twin turbo.
  
  I have no idea how to work on cars so I’ll never have it. But that 50,000 pound tiny beast is so beautiful.
  
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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?

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- Mitsubishi stopped making the eclipse in 1999. Not sure what it was they made after that but it was not an Eclipse.
  
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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.

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Wait... this isn't loss.

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I’ll never forgive them for killing off the Lancer. I love my Lancer, would love to upgrade, but nope.

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I'll never forgive Mitsubishi for MY SHINS!

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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.

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- Yeah seriously, especially that last bit. Hyundai is absolutely killing it with their N series right now.
  
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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.

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The VR4 with all wheel drive, all wheel steering, and a hardtop convertible was YEARS ahead of its time. They threw pearls before swine.

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They got Mustanged!

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Throw the WRX up there too

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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.

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- Exactly. 20 years of samey power in a porkier, blander, body. What's not to love? I just can't imagine a 22b would appreciate the glance into the future.
  
  Just my snarky, subjective take.
  
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80s Celica/Supras are still my favorite

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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.

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One of the Celicas looked like a 7/8 scale Mustang, those were cool.

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1993 eagle talon tsi, ‘nuff said…

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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.

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My mate had a BEAUTIFUL eagle talon with a giant stylized eagle on the hood. Until the engine exploded.

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I modded the crap out of the first 2 gens. This is sad.

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Mitsubishi is dead to me.

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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.

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Yeah that 3rd gen was ugly as fuck

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What’s the Toyota Z4 doing in this comic?

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Oh no I'm sorry car make collaborations bother you.

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- It's a rebadge.... it's not a damn collaboration. The Mark iv was a collaboration with a bunch of companies...this is a damn BMW, looks good but it's a BMW.
  
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I loved my Sapporo.

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I'd love for the Galant to make a comeback. Such an underrated car.

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- Same 4G63 as the Talon/Laser/Eclipse and AWD... Family race car.
  
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- Galant was my only experience with Mitsubishi. Worst car I have ever owned.
  
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public transportation time ¯_(⊙_ʖ⊙)_/¯

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Get used to it, SUVs are inevitable.

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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.)

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Station wagons should have stayed dead.

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station wagons are all we ever needed and more than we ever deserved.

pickup trucks with a bigger cab than bed should die and stay dead though. a van with stow away seats is infinitely more useful and the stuff you haul stays dry, no need for separately purchased tonneu cover or that dumbfuck accessory that adds a roof level to the cab and windows for why even. Our old caravan had a handy folding liner for dirty shit that fit in the back when all seats were up too. Bench down and it could fit a standard pallet up to a reasonable height as long as the weight isn't over what the rear suspension could handle.

Transmission was utter shit and seemingly still is in current gen which suck for addititonal reasons.

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- The big plus for pick up trucks are essentially no vertical constraint and that there is a space outside the cab for smelly things (ie. Manure, trash). The people who put hard bed covers on should just get an SUV.
  
  There is also nothing wrong with having a cab bigger than the bed so long as the extra seats aren’t wasted space (ie. Silverado mid gate).
  
  What is absurd ( and I have been thinking about a pickup for several years because my station wagon isn’t as handy due to the hard vertical constraints) is how big they have gotten. Why do you need to take up so much space when most of the time that isn’t necessary? Or like, you know, the super lifted trucks? Wow, your approach and departure angles are near vertical. But your break over angle is still shit. And who’s going to drop their truck two feet anyway? Also why do you need to be so tall with such a square hood so you can’t see modern sedans sometimes
  
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Why? I don't think I've ever seen someone hate on station wagons.

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- Men with masculine fragility hate on station wagons.
  
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They never died. Look at the M5 Touring, the E63 Estate and the RS6 Avant for starters.

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- Volvo's V60 Polestar is fucking awesome. 450 horsepower plugin hybrid with 74 MPGe, 4.3 second 0-60.
  
  In a station wagon
  
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Volvo: "Am I a joke to you?"

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I'd rather have station wagons than minivans

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