GTP Cool Wall: 1997-1999 Mitsubishi Eclipse GS-T

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1997-1999 Mitsubishi Eclipse GS-T

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Roger the Horse
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This little lovely agrees.
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Not quite in the same league though. Still looks like it'll be absolutely brilliant, mind.

In other news, I have to give the Eclipse cool. But it's better with 4WD of course.
 
I'm abstaining until the name/spec sheet mismatch is cleared up. Part of me just plain likes the AWD version, part of me says it's uncool on princible due to engine size. The FWD version is just plain uncool, but once again I struggle to place much blame on the engine here. If the nomination covers both, I'm not sure what that would balance out to.
 
kennylmao
Do you also think Civics and Integras should be RWD? :scared:
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Yes.

Turtle
So? at the end of the day, no matter how much or how little power a car has, if it handles well, then it handles well.


Why do you think that? I don't see how changing the driven wheels would make this a much better car.


Again, why? If the car does it's job well, then why should it matter so much where the power is sent?
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A RWD will be able to handle more power than a FWD. The more horsepower you squeeze into a FWD, the progressively worse it's ability to launch and power through corners will be. RWD's can power through corners. If the base Eclipse were RWD, it could launch and corner easier, and thus be a better car.
 
JMoney689
A RWD will be able to handle more power than a FWD. The more horsepower you squeeze into a FWD, the progressively worse it's ability to launch and power through corners will be. RWD's can power through corners. If the base Eclipse were RWD, it could launch and corner easier, and thus be a better car.
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The base Eclipse had 140 horsepower. You didn't have to worry about powering through much of anything.
 
Tornado
The base Eclipse had 140 horsepower. You didn't have to worry about powering through much of anything.
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I never really looked into what came on the base model so I got curious
  • Base - No tachometer, standard antenna, No rear defroster, no driving lights, 14-inch steel wheels with covers or center caps, vinyl trimmed seats, rear drum brakes
Wow.. No tachometer and rear drum brakes.. "Sports compact" indeed.

GSX? Cool. GS-T? Uncool (Especially with obnoxious BOVs good god)

G/RS (Base)?? Seriously uncool, no question.

Averages out to an Uncool but I'll bump it up to "Meh" because I like them and they're at least a nice looking econobox.
 
JMoney689
A RWD will be able to handle more power than a FWD. The more horsepower you squeeze into a FWD, the progressively worse it's ability to launch and power through corners will be. RWD's can power through corners. If the base Eclipse were RWD, it could launch and corner easier, and thus be a better car.
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The thing is you can have a different kind of fun in lower powered FWD cars than you can in any RWD cars, just because a car is FWD doesn't necessarily mean that it's not fun, power isn't everything. (I know that's been said a million times but it's true)
 
The coupe of this version is the best looking Eclipse of all... i dont like the most recent Eclipse, Mitsu ruine the small sporty car...
 
Harry6784
90% of the mustangs around here are driven by middle age women...
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Yes but those are cool women, most likey the kind I would have a good time having a beer with. As opposed to Eclipse owners, who are the exact opposite.
 
Well, the aero addenda added to sports models does a good job of dressing up the bland, somewhat awkward at the back basic shape, resulting in a car that looks pretty decent over all. In addition, the DSM is one of the cooler inline-4s around despite its reliability issues. And the Eclipse/Talon have available AWD to make them even cooler.

Too bad this is missing the last of those things. This is one I4 that might very well be cooler than V6es installed in similar class cars, but it's still Uncool.
 
JAHHAJ
The thing is you can have a different kind of fun in lower powered FWD cars than you can in any RWD cars, just because a car is FWD doesn't necessarily mean that it's not fun, power isn't everything. (I know that's been said a million times but it's true)
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My friend in his Dart would agree, after I showed him the wonderful world of metal lunch trays.
 
Anybody who subscribes to the RWD > FWD, always, mentality has yet to experience a DC2 Type-R / Clio RS (insert any number) / Megane RS / JCW Mini GP, I'm guessing.

Yeah yeah, physics will tell you it's not a "pure" experience, but if you can't have any fun in any of those, I feel a little bad for you.
 
I drove one of these not too long ago. Got in the car with quite some expectations, I mean, it looks all sporty and stuff, the seats make you feel like you are in a sporty car. But sjeez. What was I wrong. For something that is supposed to have 200+hp it lacked the go. And going sporty into the bendies just turns into understeer towards what ever there is on the outside of said bendies.

Uncool, for killing my good hopes.
 
Wolfe
I'm curious. What makes Mitsubishi's Sirius engine a cool 4-cylinder in your eyes?
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I'm amazed, given his Hitler comments in the Mercedes thread, he'd give anything Mitsubishi anything less than the melting point of tungsten of uncool. What with Mitsubishi using forced labour in WW2 to build planes for kamikaze bombing runs and their subsequent use of the three-diamond propeller from said planes as their emblem...
 
Famine
I'm amazed, given his Hitler comments in the Mercedes thread, he'd give anything Mitsubishi anything less than the melting point of tungsten of uncool. What with Mitsubishi using forced labour in WW2 to build planes for kamikaze bombing runs and their subsequent use of the three-diamond propeller from said planes as their emblem...
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To be fair, this car wasn't made when that was a thing that is happening
 
SlipZtrEm
Anybody who subscribes to the RWD > FWD, always, mentality has yet to experience a DC2 Type-R / Clio RS (insert any number) / Megane RS / JCW Mini GP, I'm guessing.

Yeah yeah, physics will tell you it's not a "pure" experience, but if you can't have any fun in any of those, I feel a little bad for you.
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I've had fun driving a Saturn SL1 with the dumbest automatic transmission I've ever experienced. But to me, those cars would all be more fun with RWD -- or to express it in realistic terms, I'd rather drive something RWD with the same weight, footprint, engine, etc.

Which isn't to say that RWD is objectively superior across the board or blah blah "true car enthusiast" blah blah.
 
I voted cool, but I am rather unsure why. I don't want to like this car. It screams ricer and was it was excellent at anything. But I can find an unappealing angle, it's fun to drive, and isn't a bad place to sit. Cool, but just barely.
 
Uncool. Forever tainted by "Danger to manifold". Sorry, Fast & Furious.

Not that a kinda bland-looking Mitsubishi coupe is an especially cool thing in the first place.

Saved from SU because one day, the F&F green Eclipse will probably be as much a part of automotive movie culture as McQueen's Mustang, the BTTF DeLorean or Herbie.
 
homeforsummer
Uncool. Forever tainted by "Danger to manifold". Sorry, Fast & Furious.

Not that a kinda bland-looking Mitsubishi coupe is an especially cool thing in the first place.

Saved from SU because one day, the F&F green Eclipse will probably be as much a part of automotive movie culture as McQueen's Mustang, the BTTF DeLorean or Herbie.
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Considering the last three are far more iconic and popular than the Eclipse I think it's a bit late for that. If anytging, the R34 took its place as the F&F poster car simply because Paul Walker loved them so much, himself. Also because they're a actually a cool, fast, and epic car out of the box, and not just a suped up shell of its former, economical...slowness.
 
Minty
Considering the last three are far more iconic and popular than the Eclipse I think it's a bit late for that.
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Nah, the Eclipse still has a chance I think, simply for being such a big part of the first movie. The Supra was the bigger one of course, but the internet gets priapic over those anyway so it's the more obvious choice. Nobody really gave a monkeys about the DeLorean when BTTF first hit theatres - that a DeLorean was used was part of the joke. But three films and quarter of a century down the line it's the thing people remember. The Eclipse and the Supra will be the things people remember from TFATF.

That, and things like this:

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...but that's the internet for you.
 

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