My FTO is scrapped. Superb vehicle. My (slightly tuned) GPX blew the doors off the contemporary ITR - in comparison the Honda was an undertyred, understeery, overloud and extremely cheap feeling tool, albeit fairly well screwed together. Decatted with exhaust and filter, it sounded glorious - best V6 this side of a tuned NSX. Alfas sound good but from 5,500rpm up to 8k, it sounded phenomenal.
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Edit: Having read the thread, while I've never experienced a GPvR, my GPX was effectively that spec, but in 1994 guise with the simpler front bumper and less ricey wing. It was lowered on Tein S-Lines and Koni adjustables and on Yokos or Toyos in the dry it was impossible to make understeer unless you had an utter deathwish. There is a complex of bends on a particular road near Gaydon, and my FTO would traverse them with far more confidence than any Aston I drove down that road, with the notable exception of the V12 Vantage. Stock Vantage on Sportpack suspension with P-Zeros was close, but it had to control nearly half a tonne of extra mass. The FTO felt much more like a track car. I drove it for 150,000 miles and do miss it. IMO there is no FWD car that's as capable and fun and yet docile and usable when you want it to be. The only FWD car with better turn in I've driven was a track prepped Ford Ka with chassis mods and a 1600 Zetec on ITBs, and it was twitchy at speed.
It wasn't a Lancer based car - it was Galant, mostly, albeit quite a bit lighter. The rear suspension was sorta mix and match, with some Lancer parts from the EVO I/II era - I remember figuring out how fit the car with Lancer EVO II rear uprights (and thus driveshaft capability) as I did have the notion of hooking a Lexus V8 up to an Audi 01E transmission and putting it in the back of an FTO. We got the powertrain done, but never cut the car up due to a berk of a project partner.
Here it is (rather dirty) on a Team GTM holiday to the Isle of Man.
