GTP Cool Wall: 1995-2005 Mitsubishi Diamante

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1995-2005 Mitsubishi Diamante

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1995-2005 Mitsubishi Diamante nominated by @Badasp5.0
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Production: 1995-2005
Styles: 4 Door Sedan, 4 Door Hardtop Sedan, 5 Door Station Wagon
Engines: 2.0 L 6G71 V6, 2.5 L 6G73 V6, 3.0 L 6G72 V6, 3.5 L 6G74 V6
Transmission: 4-speed Automatic, 5-speed Manual
Layout: Front Engine, Front Wheel Drive & Front Engine, All Wheel Drive

Since @White & Nerdy wanted me to take over for a week, I'll be posting 3 nominations a day until the 1st to try and clear out the backlog that is the nominations queue, after that either W&N or someone else will have to take over until W&N comes back/I come back from my vacation
 
Uncool. This is everything that was wrong with the 1990s.
 
Fairly non-descript sedan yes.
But. It has a Mitsubishi badge.
Therefore, I must give it cool.
Particularly if it has 4WD.
 
The name is apparently Spanish for Diamond. This does not sparkle like one. Seriously Uncool.
 
Those actually looked quite handsome up until 2004. When it went from Galant-esque full-size saloon to what looked like a Lancer that forgot to take its diet pills.

Meh for the 1995-2003 models + Seriously Uncool for the last two model years = Uncool.
 
One of the rare instances where the U.S. spec car looked better than the home market model. In the years 2002 and 2003, it was downright handsome. It still doesn't get more than a meh from me, but at least it's more interesting than a Toyota Chaser.
 
I want to like Mitsubishi. The third gen Magna and eighth gen Galant are beautiful. The Lancer Evo and Carisma are legendary sports cars.

But this? This is a bag of nothing. It's so utterly unspectacular. I bet it's 'competent' too. Doesn't even have the decency to be noteworthy by being awful.

I think a good acid test for 'cool' is to consider how you'd feel picking up a date in it. Quite frankly I wouldn't even turn up in it. I'd tell my date that it got stolen and that's why we're walking.
 
There is nothing cool about this car, and nothing uncool about it either... just a sleeping pill on 4 wheels

Its not offensive, and its not even defensive...

Its a car for people who want to blend in and go unannounced, unnoticed...
 
Boring. Ugly. The manual option saves is from seriously uncool. Uncool it is.
 
Seriously uncool. It's 13ft of car from a horribly uncool brand. I also wasn't aware it was even sold in America, but since it has Maryland plates on it obviously it was.
 
The thing about the Diamante is that, when it first showed up, it was a truly competitive and fairly forward thinking car from a company who was no more than an also-ran in the Japanese market. The later ones were just small revisions on a quickly aging chassis, which was largely the name of the game at Mitsubishi, and pretty much still is.

Otherwise, its uncool.
 
Joey D
Seriously uncool. It's 13ft of car from a horribly uncool brand. I also wasn't aware it was even sold in America, but since it has Maryland plates on it obviously it was.
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Similarly, I didn't remember this was sold elsewhere either.

For us, the Mitsubishi Magna/Verada (sometimes known as the "Fagna" by the haters) was Mitsubishi Australia's answer to the Commodore and the Falcon, the Verada being the luxury car version to compete with the Statesman and Fairlane, respectively.

The TJ Magna VR-X and Ralliart pretty much changed the way the automotive press saw FWD V6 powered vehicles, especially in the straight line where it essentially took the then-new LS1/Gen III-powered Commodore SS to beat it from 0-100 and in the quarter mile.

However, the rest of the line-up ruins its status because of its inherent Camry-like qualities and, in the smaller engined models, its inherent unreliability. MMAL did well to live up until 2008 but unfortunately they were the first Australian manufacturer to go down the toilet after the colossal failure of the Magna's successor, the 380.

If it was this:

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I'd be tempted to give it cool because it actually has some zest even though it looks incredibly ricer.

But because it's the full platter of mostly unappetising Magnas (or Verada, it really doesn't matter much either way), it's getting a low Uncool.
 

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