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New Mitsu Eclipse
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 8:55 am
by MrFT000
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!
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 9:48 am
by FTO338
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
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 10:27 am
by afterburner
Thats a large capacity engine in quite a small car.
Reminds me of the 350Z from some angles - I assume it's still FWD?
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 10:41 am
by BuCkEt
Saw this a few days ago......shape is pretty hot.
And yeah it's still FWD.
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 10:42 am
by Boris
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...
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 11:19 am
by rxboy
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?
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 2:05 pm
by sxcfto
me has to get one of them
Mitsubishi looks like they have finally got it right !
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:00 pm
by HiRAEdd
Saa-Weet!
I wonder if there will be a version with the steering wheel on the correct side of the car
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:06 pm
by afterburner
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.
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:46 am
by smorison
unfortunatley the eclipse is made only for the North American market...
even Japan doesn't get them (if they did we could)
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 9:15 am
by sxcfto
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 ......
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:09 am
by FTO338
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.