New Mitsu Eclipse

MrFT000 · Post by **MrFT000** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 8:55 am

http://www.mitsubishicars.com/06eclipse/

check out the new eclipse - pretty sweet...

The shape is somewhat reminiscent of the FTO body.

oh yeah, not dialup friendly site!

FTO338 · Post by **FTO338** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 9:48 am

OMG 3.8L V6 MIVEC, I hope they going put the same engine into the new Magna replacement Galent. Its suppose to have the 3.8L V6 too.

Anyone planning to get the engine from the state by any chance??? hehehee

afterburner · Post by **afterburner** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 10:27 am

Thats a large capacity engine in quite a small car.

Reminds me of the 350Z from some angles - I assume it's still FWD?

BuCkEt · Post by **BuCkEt** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 10:41 am

Saw this a few days ago......shape is pretty hot.

And yeah it's still FWD.

Boris · Post by **Boris** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 10:42 am

That looks nice! BUT it doesn't redline at 8K!

I think this eclipse is not really a light weigh car, like the FTO, and Type-R...

But what it looses in weight, it makes it up with 3.8L V6...

rxboy · Post by **rxboy** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 11:19 am

Wasn't there an article a little while back which said that the Eclipse was going to be a petrol/electric hybrid? Or was that just a concept car?

sxcfto · Post by **sxcfto** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 2:05 pm

me has to get one of them

Mitsubishi looks like they have finally got it right !

HiRAEdd · Post by **HiRAEdd** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:00 pm

Saa-Weet!

I wonder if there will be a version with the steering wheel on the correct side of the car

afterburner · Post by **afterburner** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:06 pm

I wouldn't be too hopeful, given that all previous models were LHD only. Shame really.

One of the few Japanese performance cars that we don't get here...

3.8L is a rather large increase in displacement from the previous models.

Post by **smorison** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:46 am

unfortunatley the eclipse is made only for the North American market...

even Japan doesn't get them (if they did we could)

sxcfto · Post by **sxcfto** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 9:15 am

Why do they do this to us ............ blah ha ha I want to know why the Australian Standards are so high it's ridiculous that we miss out on so many cars because of this reason ......

FTO338 · Post by **FTO338** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:09 am

sxcfto wrote: Why do they do this to us ............ blah ha ha I want to know why the Australian Standards are so high it's ridiculous that we miss out on so many cars because of this reason ......

We miss out lots of good cars because we have a very small consumer market (population), so is not justify for any car makers to bring them in, therefore we just have to stick with the cost effective & cheap quality local made stuff.