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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)
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
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!
I lived through the 90s and can confirm that the Mitsubishi Gallant was the Altima of its day
Damn I had no idea the Galant had such a bad rep in the US...
Yeah part of the problem was you had the VR-4 which all the car nuts understood, but then everyone bought the S or SE and they were everywhere, half because it was an affordable midlevel car, and half because they wanted a VR-4 and couldn’t afford it
Like OP said, it's because they'd give financing to basically anybody with a pulse, just like Nissan did.
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.
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.
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.
Wait... this isn't loss.
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.
They got Mustanged!
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.
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.
Sure, but let's all agree it could be worse.
If it were added to this meme, it'd have a reaction somewhere between the Supra and the Eclipse. Something like "oh, okay".
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 modded the crap out of the first 2 gens. This is sad.
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.
I loved my Sapporo.
I'd love for the Galant to make a comeback. Such an underrated car.
Same 4G63 as the Talon/Laser/Eclipse and AWD... Family race car.
Galant was my only experience with Mitsubishi. Worst car I have ever owned.
I owned a 1992 and 1994 Eagle Talon Tsi AWD (the '94 was pretty modified). I had a lot of fun in that car.
It was a mid 12 sec (in the 1/4 mile) car on pump gas in the late 1990's. I upset a lot of Corvette's, Mustangs and Camaro's back then.
My license plate was 'V8EATR'. :)
What’s the Toyota Z4 doing in this comic?