What do you think about the Mitsi FTO?
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Still looking quite good in a chunky sort of fashion. But expect to have to remortgage if the MIVEC engine goes belly up. Very view people understand them so any major engine work is costly and hard to find in the first place.
As a 14 year old design, it looks dated inside, but then so do most cars that age.
However, there are much better cars out there. Primarily, a corrado VR6, which trounces it in every aspect. Although it might be slightly down on power on paper, in the real world the near extra litre of capacity gives it sledgehammer levels of torque that would leave an FTO trailing.
Build quality is good as with all Mitsi's, and if you buy a good one and look after it, it really shouldn't cause much for concern. Despite there being better cars out there, the FTO is far from a shameful purchase, especially in red with a set of 18 inch BBS wheels..
My Advice? Scrap it!
Reliable, like all Jap cars but horribly over-rated. Far better cars around. Nightmare to work on as well, especially the V6. Plug changing. DOH!!
Nice looking car but no sports car.
Interior looks ok, externally good and turns the odd head but it doesn't handle much better than a family car, not particually quick and seems to be heavy on fuel especially the auto/tip gearboxs.
Friend of mine had one and sold it coz of the poor fuel consumption, he also had quite a lot of problems with it too.
So overall, it's a bit of a sheep in wolfs clothing.
Not bad to look at, slower than an asthmatic tortoise!
sorry!
Not bad but a slow car.Have you thought about the GTO a much sportier looking car and quick as well
Nice looking car and quite rare but only really worth having the Mivec 200bhp version with a manual box. Others are pretty slow. Interiors are very dull. Expensive to fix as where never sold in this country so only grey imports avaliable.
For that sort of cash there are plenty of alternatives around such as nissan 200sx, toyota mr2 turbo, honda prelude vti. All are cheaper, perform better and will be cheaper to run.
I had a GPX Mivec
It was quick, reliable and comfortable. The only problems over a few years were new exhaust and dodgy brake discs. I had the auto box box which is very common, seemed a bit strange with such a high-revving engine but it went well. It also handled surprisingly well for fwd.
I don't know about buying one now. As they are getting older you would have to be very careful about abused or poorly maintained examples.
The 3000 GTO is also a possibility but it's a very complex car and quite heavy. Also, like the FTO, starting to look quite old fashioned.
If you can stretch to a newer car I think the current Honda Integra is the best of this type of car, it's certainly doing well in Touring Cars, but they start around £10k.
Good Luck
That they would make me a lot happier than the crappy eclipses, diamantes, and (non vr-4) galants, that we get in the states.
US market cars suck.
they can be very fuel efficient if you put a k&n pod filter on them, the only down about them is too kept them well serviced or they got no guts, paint work can crack if it still has the original jap paint on it, central locking sometime fails on drivers side but easily fixed. I've got MIVEC GPX manual and had ppl in ferraris and posches get whiplash trying to figure out what my car is.
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