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I didn't mind them until the NFS fanboys started ricing them out around '03-ish. After that I lost all interest in them. Same with 3000GT's.
 
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I love the second gen Eclipse ('95-'99). Especially the Eclipse GSX.

The new ones are crap.

Let me ask @GranTurismo916 's question again @Cano

What is an Eclipse supposed to do?
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I'm gonna take a punt at being a small FWD sports coupe similar to a Peugeot RCZ. So basically, it's demographic will likely be well-off people with no/very young children looking for a weekend car which can be used during the week if needs be. Although, some may have another car for the mundane.

Similar to a Toyota GT86, but FWD.
 
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The original two generations, thanks to their US production, were supposed to be "Japanese" cars that dramatically undercut the competition in price while still being obviously Japanese in their design, construction and powertrain. For the first generation (and somewhat less so with the second when it started having all of its reliability problems, and I don't mean just crankwalk), it worked. All of the competing cars were essentially priced out of the market as the 90s wore on, and the Eclipse was still pretty affordable.

The 3rd generation was supposed to be a way to reach a wider demographic while also being cheaper to assemble, purchase and maintain; since it became infeasible to continue building the Eclipse as an AWD turbocharged crazy machine which blew up all the time after the Eagle brand went away and the coupe market in general started tanking. The Eclipse had always been derived from the Galant, but the 3rd generation was much closer; and was designed to try to carve out the nice little market GM had managed to hold onto with the N-Body cars (side by side it's blatant that the 1998 Grand Am was the benchmark, if the idea of a Grand Am being a benchmark for anything isn't too depressing to think about) as everything larger died off. The final Hyundai Tiburon was also targeted in the same niche. It also essentially replaced the lower model 3000GTs in Misubishi's lineup. Considering the entire market was disappearing completely, it was also fairly successful, was undoubtedly the correct decision over another car like the first two, and holds a surprising fanbase.


The 4th generation was designed to be a cheap way of getting a knockoff of the Audi TT to market, with little regard for anything beyond that. Everything Mitsubishi USA was making at the time was completely half baked, and the huge success that the 2005 Mustang was made it irrelevant before it even came out. It bombed about as much as you'd figure, yet Mitsubishi continued to sell it after the Genesis Coupe came out. Probably so they could keep the lights on at the DSM plant when total production dropped to a tenth what it was a decade prior.
 
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Slash
Yet both look atrocious :lol:
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Oh yes, absolutely. No one is arguing that.

GranTurismo916
What is the Eclipse supposed to do? Just curious.
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Well, I was gonna say pretend to be a sporty coupe failing miserably because it's based on a chassis that offers the sportyness of a door knob so it only looks like (an incredibly ugly) one but it's a piece of crap, but

Tornado
Bio of the Eclipse
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He told it better than I ever could.

ColinH96
I think that a Volga/Lada/FSO would like to have a word with you.
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Not, because this:

legacyMACHINE
Lada doesn't deserve to be there. Cheap utilitarian transport is not, will never be crap.
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The Volga ddoes exactly what it was intended to do and it seems to have done a pretty good job at it actually. Was even raced. Does not compute.

RandomCarGuy17
unless it's a Ferrari
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Yeah, I know. They're like a plague.
 
Flames on a Viper, I'm not really fond of it. It just doesn't look right to me.
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Yes, typical F&F/NFSU body modding, but what I really found questionable about this is that the owner decided to put money torwards a body kit before getting the car to run in the first place.
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That's actually a fairly understandable occurrence. Body kits are extremely simple to install and pretty cheap. Fixing blown up 2G motors is really neither of those things. It's still idiotic, but more because the owner is misguided to what running/repairing a car like that actually entails rather than actively being foolish.
 

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