What the heck just happened? The Autopian’s video manager Griffin is always trying to find a good car for Trade-In-Tuesday, and this time around it sounded like it was slim pickings. The most interesting of the many vehicles traded into Galpin over Labor Day was apparently a 2009 Mitsubishi Lancer. With the same 152 horsepower, 2.0-liter World Engine found in the Dodge Caliber and amenities you’d expect to find in one of the cheapest cars of 2009, I was not expecting much. I was blown away.
In the video below, I blather on about what it takes to build a car brand. You build a halo vehicle, you advertising the bejesus out of it, and then you build a bunch of normal cars that draw inspiration from that halo car. This leads people to come to your dealerships and purchase the normal car they need, while still being convinced that they’re kinda-sorta getting a taste of that halo car they want.
[Welcome to Trade-In-Tuesday, a series in which we drive trade-ins brought to our sister-company, Galpin Motors. -DT].
It’s a brand-building strategy as old as time itself, and it’s a small part of why the Mitsubishi Lancer below is so great.
Look at that aggressive front end shared with the rally-beast. Look at that big wing. And above all, look at that five-speed manual whose shift ball is begging you to replace it with a boy-racer-ish style aftermarket shift knob.
This basic Mitsubishi Lancer isn’t a sports car in any way, even if it’s related to one. Under the hood is an engine whose architecture is shared with that of the Dodge Caliber and Jeep Compass. It’s a weak-sauce 2.0-liter making just over 150 horsepower, and when I open its throttle with a stomp to the gas pedal, Morgan Freeman comes through the car’s speakers and said: “We will take your input into consideration.” Zero to 60 is somewhere between 8 and 9 seconds, and unless the revs are above 5,000, the car is a cruiser and far from a bruiser.
And yet, I loved driving it.
It’s not the motor, it’s the transmission. Designated the F5MBB, this is an Aisin-engineered five-speed manual known for being reliable as heck and, above all, an absolute delight to shift. It snicks into gear just right, its throws are perfect, and the clutch is just heavy enough.
It’s a phenomenal transmission hooked to an average, somewhat buzzy but reliable and reasonably efficient engine.
The base Lancer with this engine only cost $13,990.00 back in 2009 — not much more than a Hyundai Elantra or Toyota Yaris.
And I have to say: This is a good car. The seats are comfortable and don’t look too dated, the dash is made of hard plastic but it looks OK for a 2009. And with boxes checked for power windows, power locks, a CD player, alloy, and that big rear wing, this car doesn’t feel like a penalty box.
It looks reasonably aggressive, with styling shared with the Evo that’s based on the same platform, it’s practical, and that stick makes it a true joy to drive. This was a surprisingly excellent trade-in, and with sale prices around $5000, these Lancers seem like great transportation, especially given 30 MPG highway and the fact that the model received the IIHS Top Safety Pick back around 2009.
Cool looking, somewhat efficient, reasonably safe, dead-reliable, and dirt cheap? Why is nobody (ok not nobody) talking about Lancers? This seems like a tragically underrated machine.
Goddamn look at how clean that once run of the mill Lancer is. These are just about freaking GONE up here. Even though Mitsubishi was awkwardly peddling these many years after ’09, until they were a generation and a half behind the competition.
There was absolutely nothing wrong with the Lancer in 2009 compared to the competition, other than taking a chance on a 00’s JATCO if you got the automatic. The issue was the decreasing number of dealers, especially after the financial crash, and that the remaining dealers went into true desperation mode. These are… not dealerships I would expect much beyond the BHPH experience.
Sounds a lot like my 2002 Mazda Protege. That had a perfectly fine but nothing special engine and a great manual gearbox, too. Ironically, I traded that car in to Galpin in 2006 for a Focus ZX3. Kind of wish I had either the Protege or the Focus back today, actually.
The Protege handled better than it had a right too because Mazda and having owned a ’07 Focus, those little cars really handled well too. It always seemed I could take any off-ramp 20 mph faster than anyone else in mine.
The Protege is one of the few cars I would have back if I could find one.
Sadly, they all dissolved where I live.
I drove my cousin’s Protege 5 once and thought it was really cool but definitely could’ve used another 20-30 hp, of course it was also in the height of summer, at 5,000 feet in MT, and the AC was on so not giving its best showing.
Why is nobody (ok not nobody) talking about Lancers? I imagine you’d find your answer if you also test drove the Lancer’s competition.
A coworker has one of these, nearly identical to this one but all stanced out and bits covered in carbon fiber vinyl wrap. In fact, I can’t recall the last time I saw a relatively stock Lancer of this generation, as it seems like nearly all of them were modified to be pseudo-Evolutions and then driven into the ground.
Yeeeeeeah. I always get SO excited whenever I see another Lancer that looks pretty clean.
I HAVE BEEN SUMMONED. (And linked! Haha.)
That looks like the wing and trim from my ’10 GTS. If that’s the case here, too, that’s the top end of the normie, non-turbo Lancers. Those started at around $18K and got the bigger 2.4-liter engine with 168 hp, which made a pretty big difference in acceleration over the regular 2.0L. It’s got bigger brakes shared with the Outlander Sport, which means that track pads are a special order, but I could get truck pads all day off the rack if I wanted to. Fatter swaybars. It’s tough as snot, too. It’s just the best little car. I refuse to part with mine.
100+-degree track days finally got to it before I moved, though, so it’s been sitting in my garage waiting for a new head gasket. After 220K miles of hooning around, it can have a little mechanical woe, as a treat. I had to *try* for about 15 years to get it to have any major issues, for Pete’s sake. It’s still on its original CVT, which really trips people out. Maintain these cars well and they go the distance.
I was looking for a second, cheap ‘n’ dirty one as a winter/rallycross beater, but the Mazda3 was the right price at the right time (read: right when the Lancer broke). Still, the idea of getting a blue Lancer and naming the duo Terrance and Phillip cracks me up.
(Also, I still need a Porsche Cayenne, too, but that’s more so I can tow my Porsche with a Porsche.)
Fun aside: Mitsubishi still has the ’09 press release up announcing the GTS’s bigger engine, heh. https://media.mitsubishicars.com/en-US/releases/2009-lancer-press-kit?la=1&downloadUrl=%2Fen-US%2Fvideos%2FdownloadSource%3Fid%3Dvideo-94f657451d730c117b6396324b8ffab3#press-kit
I’m sad the video doesn’t work.
I knew you’d show up. 😀
Thank you for showing up and giving your 2 cents. It didn’t feel right otherwise.
(Oh, and I confirmed: This one had the 2.0).
Oh weird! Maybe they added the other bits (or blew the engine at some point). (Would not surprise me either way.)
D’oh! I missed the wheels. Probably the ES WITH BITS ADDED.
Fun aside: I know at least one Evo that had the slightly less gaudy Lancer GTS wing like mine. It’s a good wing! I like the big one on the Evo, too, but they’re both good wings! I can’t blame anyone for adding it.
A friend has a manual GT – he was looking at Civics and felt like the Lancer GT split the gap between the regular civic and the Si pretty well and was a good deal. I drove it a few times, and it was certainly fun in a “hot hatch” sort of way (not really that fast, but felt fast because of economy car roots).
He bought my FRS and intended to keep the Lancer as his winter car, but then the transmission lost a syncro. Apparently the manual trans for the GT was different than the one used with the 2.0 or with the Evo. So there’s roughly none floating around the states and he would have had to order one from Japan (or order OEM parts for a hefty sum plus pay the labor for the rebuild). Sad end to a car that was otherwise still in great shape at 10 years and over 100k miles.
Third option: he could have learned to double clutch like he should instead of granny shifting 🙂
I owned an ’86 Subaru BRAT that I bought with 176,000 miles on the stopped odometer. Synchros were toast on 1st and 2nd. It was fine once you got used to it.
I think the synchro wasn’t the only issue – it started whining pretty loud in one of the gears. So chicken or egg, not sure what caused what. But I’d agree with David’s take, prior to that it was a decent feeling gearbox.
Aw, man. That’s wild. I wouldn’t have thought it was that different.
So you’re saying he could have…
– “Ordered overnight parts from Japan!!!” 😉
Mitsubishi is criminally overlooked in comparison to Toyota and Honda. Avoid the CVTs and these are every bit as reliable and often better to drive than their japanese couterparts. The 2.4 i4 (optional in the lancer) has been in use for like 25 years in various forms and still a workhorse in the Outlander today.
I think 1 reason why Mitsubishi cars are overlooked is they used to have engine cam walk issues.
Much like Cadillac* said issues might have been solved decades ago, still the enthusiast community will remember
*GMs unfortunately decision to keep peddling the same Caddies to retirees even though that customer segment was aging out or moved on and GM has spent more than 20 years now trying to shake that image that they themselves allowed to happen over the proceedings +25(ish) years, Im thinking from about 1975 through early 2000s
Looking for a reliable, fuel efficient vehicle circa 2009 we looked at an almost identical new Lancer like that. Had the upgraded stereo, interior was more modern then anything we owned at the time, seemed like a decent place to just put on highway miles fuel efficiently on the Maine highways.
Made the better decision to buy a 2003 MR2 instead. We were very happy with that decision.
These are one of the most common beaters in Puerto Rico. It’s always this year in red. I’ve seen them in all kinds of shape, still trucking along. I have a friend who totaled one and bought a second one. They’re one rung up from your 96 Toyota Corolla in terms of cash cars.
This article helps me understand why they love them- the hills. I drove a compass with that engine and it was slow but torquey. It climbed hills with aplomb and you didn’t miss the loss of speed at the top end because there are very few straights. I hated driving it on the highway though. So it makes sense why this would be a beloved car in a poor country full of hills.
The looks have aged surprisingly well. It’s the best looker on this list by a mile. The rabbit gets close I suppose but still about a mile away I reckon. https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/comparison-test/a15151768/2009-toyota-corolla-vs-ford-focus-vw-rabbit-subaru-impreza-and-four-more-economy-cars-comparison-tests/
Test drove a few when they were still new.
They all drive and handle impeccably, but had a lot of road noise. They held up amazingly well over time, and I really felt bad not just getting one for how well they survive.
There was even an AWD hatchback with 2.4L (170hp?) and 6MT before stepping over to the Ralliart and Evo.
Shamefully the Ralliart was automatic (DCT) only, and the Evo (6MT) didn’t come with a hatch.
Well the Evo is still to this day my #1 favorite car ever owned. I have never found anything quite like it since. From an IX to an X new from the dealer it was the only car that felt “worth” buying new.
But the whole thing with them was how easy they gained power with little $200 here, $400 there mods that then woke the car up because it was built to correctly use that extra power.
A well modded stock turbo IX was 400whp/400wtq with a crazy torque curve that was already north of 300/300 by 3000rpm.
I miss both of mine dearly
I just don’t know who would trade a car like this in at a dealer. We don’t know the mileage, but I’m guessing that Galpin paid $500-$1000 for the trade. You could put this on FBM for $3500 and get a $3000 offer within a week.
Some people don’t want to deal with a private sale… especially Facebook marketplace. I get it. Back in 2020 my VW CC lost all compression on one cylinder, making it a stylish paperweight. I could have listed it for a few grand and could probably have gotten it. The car was a manual and was immaculate, inside and out.
But I still traded it in, getting around $1,500, part of the down payment on my Sportwagen. I found one in the exact spec I wanted it, so I traded the dead CC (which they towed from my house) and that was that. I didn’t want to risk losing out on the exact spec I wanted, nor did I want to deal with trying to sell a car, especially an inoperable one. I imagine a lot of folks are willing to take a hit on trade if it means they don’t have to sell the car themselves.
I charge friends $300 to sell their beaters on FBM. They all think they are getting an insane deal. I have it down to an art. They don’t even know where to start (which is, empty and wash and wipe down the damn thing first, then line up all available documentation).
Actually, I prepared a document telling them EXACTLY what to do, in what order. They STILL don’t want to do any of it.
When we dumped ours, we dumped it at a dealer.
Why? No way in hell it was going to pass safety because rust, and a safety was required for registration for the new owner. California has smog testing, so dealing with that may be an issue.
That, in addition to the wondrous world of ‘delightful’ people who haunt FBM that make for great stories but awful human interactions.
I also didn’t want some random person coming back to me screaming that the car had issues because they bought a clapped out junker.
It goes to the dealer, they wholesale it out. Don’t know where it goes after I hand them the keys, don’t really care. Yeah, I might have left a few bucks on the table, but a painless disposal of a worn out car is worth that cost.
(FWIW, the pic in the article shows 144k miles on this Lancer)
“Uh, you know, when they asked me if I wanted to be the first human to drive a Mitsubishi Space Lancer, I thought, ‘Well, I don’t know. I got this cool orb suit that goes really fast.’ But you know what sold me? The Council said I could pick my own bridge crew. Morty, Summer, Beth, what do you say?” – Jerry Smith, Rick and Morty
“You are no longer worthy of Mitsubishi.” – Space Lancer, Rick and Morty
Low spec lancers are under appreciated. They were decent enough. You used to see tons of them on military bases because they were cheap efficient and good enough.
I want to know what they traded it for. Mazda 3? Or did they go electric maybe a polestar or VW.
I think these types of articles should be more like, “This car is going to auction on MM/DD/YYYY, or it can be yours for $X,XXX.”
Then we, as commentors, can opine on the $X,XXX.
I mean, the car gets a good home from a loyal reader (or a clever flipper), and it gets off the lot quicker. Win-win. Win.
They could call it something like “good price or bad deal” and we could have a vote on it.
A little effusive, mayhaps. I think it’s underrated (I’ve always liked the way Lancers looked) but not by that much. It’s a 17-year old economy sedan, so not a hot topic. And back then there used to be far more choice and therefore harder to make it stand out.
Somebody’s getting a bit hoity-toity of late if they think an 8-9 second 0-60 run is worth reaching in the ol’ autojournalist toolbox for some moviestar quote like that. 8-9 is fine!
I want you to find a used Kizashi to review. Now we’re talking underrated.
Yes! I’d love to find a non-thrashed manual Kizashi. Underappreciated when they were new because its competitors had options for an economical 4 or a thirsty-but-powerful V6, and the Kizashi’s only engine option was a thirsty 4. That said, they’re just gorgeous. I really wish they would have been a runaway sales success and kept Suzuki in the US market. Alas.
I seriously shopped for a Kizashi, but none of the dealers would bring in a FWD manual model for me. They kept insisting that Canadians all wanted AWD, and those were slushboxes.
They’re not wrong. Few Canadians need AWD but if it’s available, they buy it. I’m surprised they wouldn’t order it for you, though. A sale is a sale and you’d think that a Mitsu dealer would take any sale it could get.
“Somebody’s getting a bit hoity-toity of late if they think an 8-9 second 0-60 run is worth reaching in the ol’ autojournalist toolbox for some moviestar quote like that. 8-9 is fine!”
Hard agree.
Back in the dark ages, when I graduated high school, a fairly hot car was lucky to break 10 seconds on the way to 60. A Hot Rod cartoon of the day showed a guy in the timing stand at a drag strip with an egg timer on the counter. Another fellow sitting beside him said “Timing stockers, eh?”
In a lot of ways, this was the Ford Focus’ mojo. From the beginning, Ford would use it as its rally car, and the everyday versions contain that DNA in one form or another, to a greater or lesser, but still there, extent. It’s a cool way to pitch a car. Worked on me.
There’s a great Ford Heritage Vault release of a short film Ford made for the UK market to introduce the Focus. It showcases side by side production of the road-going and race car variants, including a great ending where they end up on the road together, side by side.
I will once again stand up for the 08-11 North American Focus. Yes it was ugly, but it had decent bones, the Duratec 4 is good, it drove well, had a lot of gizmos (and safety features) for it’s class, and was the best used car purchase I ever made.
You said it. My ’10 SE has been and continues to be a great all around everyday ride that’s both durable and cheap to maintain, and yet can be a hoot to drive spiritedly.
I actually get a kick out of Ford’s tarting it up inside like it’s an actual performance car. Big white-faced gauges, entertainment display in a rally car gauge pod on top of the dash, the silly fake aluminum center console…it’s fun that Ford embraced the over the top cheesy like that.
Years ago I was at a work holiday dinner for my wife’s work colleagues. Some how cars came up specifically talk of a Ford Escort so jokingly I asked if it was a Cosworth.
One of the other husbands actually laughed, so we talked cars for a good while.
Always fun to find a fellow gear head when you’re expecting a relatively nice though a bit boring evening
I’m sad we’re nearing the end of the days when car companies make high performance versions of regular (or low) performance cars. It gives you a much greater chance of car connectivity at places you’d otherwise not expect to find it, like dinner parties or work.
My spouse had a Lancer of this generation when we stated dating. It was a bright blue CVT-equipped mid-level model.
Between various road trips and whatnot, I got enough seat time behind the wheel.
It suffered no major drivetrain maladies and was a decent transportation-mobile for a decade. It was a decent highway cruiser and had good visibility out of it compared to a lot of newer vehicles.
However, it was pretty uninspiring from a driver’s perspective. The engine was indifferent in both power production and fuel economy. The handling and brakes were fine if you had low expectations. The steering was a feel-free sort of affair.
The paint held up; the rust was relentless underneath. An anecdote: It was experiencing electrical gremlins towards the ends of its days. I checked the ground under the battery. Trying to break the ground loose ended with me shearing a chunk of the rusty body off where the ground attached. I ended up installing a new ground in a location that actually would allow electric current to flow properly.
If this car was in California, it would probably still be in the driveway today; they’ve mostly disappeared from northern roads by now.
To me, the Lancer kind of represents a more modern Chevrolet Cavalier; maybe the last version of such a vehicle sold. A very affordable car that held up better in the long-term than it should have given its low cost and indifferent maintenance these things generally ended up enduring.
It sounds as if the manual transmission made all the difference for the one you drove, because the CVT version stole about 90% of the pizazz you speak of.
Oh also, the wing annoyed me to no end. Right in the line of sight out of the rearview. I guess it looked cool if you were into that.
My friend just got rid of his, GTS auto. It’s a Nissan CVT (didn’t explode!) and had real full size metal (!!!) shift paddles. Not great on gas, but strangely about equal to his new CX-5.
Aw man, why the downgrade?
they take regular road trips with 2 week camping, they fill that CX5 to the brim lol. Unfortunately, the Mazda is miles more comfortable and quiet.
okay, but the wing is probably smaller
Mmmm – Lancers.
My parents loved that wine back in the 60’s.
Really though? Are you just advertising used cars for Galpin or you actually liked driving that thing? I test drove this exact year back in the day when I was trying to decide what daily to lease and away very unimpressed. The fact that the mitsu dealer then wanted more on the lease than a better equiped subaru legacy was going for and was kind of an A-hole kind of left a bad taste on mitsubishis for me. I went and leased a subaru legacy right afterwards and it was only $2K down and something like $140 a month.
Implying THAT after all these years I’ve been in this biz: not cool.
You can’t even buy this car; it’s gonna get wholesaled.
What’s more, owner satisfaction for these seems to be really high. People dig them, just as I do!
I love hearing other people’s opinions on cars, even if those opinions differ from mine. But cars are huge purchases in people’s lives; I will NEVER lead anyone astray. That’s a responsibility we take seriously here.
my bad! I guess I just had a hard time believing this could get a good review. I mean, this is no jaguar xf
The Jag XF does reign supreme to be fair
S’all good!
Beau should open Galpin – b Stock, a used car lot so you can sell cars like this strictly to Autopians. Imagine all the car(singular) you’d sell! Can’t have a tax write off if you don’t spend money, to lose money.
Given the track record of this website, I have full trust in your assessments and I think trade-in Tuesday is a great series.
But I do think this commenter has a bit of a point – whether this car is for sale or not is irrelevant, this series is still exposure for Galpin, and should probably be labelled “Partner Post” like your other collabs.
I think the fact the website is part owned by Galpin makes this disclosure even more important.
I too am kinda sick of seeing Galpin everywhere even if it’s a partner thing.
This isn’t Galpin Journalism, it’s the Autopian which should be a separate brand.
I’m surprised you’re saying that; I always assumed everyone would be down for reviews of junkers instead of brand new press cars you see from every other publication. We include Galpin (who is not a partner; we are sister-companies), and will continue to include Galpin, in our content because it is a huge advantage for this publication. It’s not just regurgitated press release and press cars like you see elsewhere. It’s random trade-ins and amazing cars in Beau’s collection (seriously; what other website gets to give you a review of a Vector M12, various microcars, a beat up old Dodge Nitro, a Chevy Avalanche, etc). Not to mention, we got to take a 787B-liveried Autozam to Laguna Seca, and we did an epic Shelby Concept vs. Corvette vs. Viper shootout that you’ll get to see soon. Galpin, and the brilliant car-nut at the helm (Beau), makes this website soooo much better; there is a strict editorial independence clause in our founding documents, which is when we write about Galpin, it’s always good shit. More to come.
The reviews on traded in cars are fantastic. It’s a breath of fresh air and honestly quite enjoyable to look back at cars of the past and see how they have held up.
Counterpoint, if you had essentially unlimited access to used cars to review, why wouldn’t you do that?
None of these have been ads trying to sell us a particular car, nor even included anything about Galpin beyond the fact that they exist and had a car available for a brief drive. There was no sales pitch, discount code, or call to action to Visit Galpin Today!
In a media world filled with buried sales pitches and backdoor marketing, this ain’t it.
Cleverly veiled exposure is still advertisement, arguably more problematic due to its more covert nature.
I am in favor of this series and look forward to reading more. But it costs The Autopian nothing to be slightly more straightforward. They have done it for other partnerships and struck the correct balance in the past.
I disagree with your sentiments and intent, there is a lot of forced marketing on the internet, and the fact that this very website goes above and beyond to NOT shove that down our throats trying to monetize every square inch of webpage screen space, or force extra clicks into each article makes this egregious IMNSHO.
We can still be friends.
It’s not cleverly veiled at all. We don’t get to where we are by hiding things. This whole site is built on the relationship with Galpin, who isn’t a partner but a part owner; we’ve been very open and proud of that.
With that said, I’m happy to reiterate again in each of these articles that The Autopian is part-owned by Galpin; that’s easy enough, and I appreciate the feedback.
I know of one that’s usually heavily hooned. They can hoon. And also this one’s a stick! Inherently more fun!
I’m almost certain that the Integra from about a month ago was the only, ONLY, Trade in Tuesday car ever sold by Galpin (after being featured) and all the rest were sent to auction. Franchised new-car dealers seldom bother with anything over 10 years old on their used lots.
Thanks to the nature of the stuff we’re shooting, this is almost always the case. Typically, I see an internal doc that shows a trade-in was made that day, I inquire, and they’re almost always going to auction or wholesale within the week, and we try to slot it in before it goes off the lot.
For reference of how tight the turnaround is sometimes, the Ford used lot got a 2011 3 Series we would’ve loved to film, and I believe it was two days between when it hit the lot and when I inquired, and it was already sent off to wholesale, never to be seen again.
It’s cool when we get something properly perty like that Integra, but buddy the hoopties and random crap makes me happy as hell.
Thanks for the info! And now I’ll spend the rest of the day wondering what in the current Ford line someone driving a 2011 3 Series would trade it in on.
On the commercial side, it was a few years ago but I do remember David writing a glowing if budgetarily regretful review of the Lexus dealer experience that Elise (nhrn) was so enamored of, and referred to the Los Angeles dealership (ie a direct competitor to Galpin) by name at least once in the article.
Was it a stick? He clearly states that the stick made it a car that he loved driving.
David daily drives an i3s, and his stick shifts don’t get driven much, so I could see that this was a hoot to drive.
If he drove a stick Miata on the way to test drive this, I think his opinion would be a little different.
Holy grail of this car would be the Ralliart Hatch version. There’s 2 for sale in CA, both seems a bit overpriced.
The hatch on this gen always felt like it was from a different, roundier car than the blocky, squared-off rest of it. Those are fun, though.
Now, the prior CT9W Evo wagon? That one’s the holy grail for me.
“Zero to 60 is somewhere between 8 and 9 seconds, “
And that’s more than fast enough for a daily driver. And it’s as fast or faster than 7/9 vehicles I’ve owned.
“Cool looking, somewhat efficient, reasonably safe, dead-reliable, and dirt cheap? Why is nobody (ok not nobody) talking about Lancers?”
Because the majority of buyers are mindlessly obsessed with AWD CUVs, SUVs and trucks.
When my GF needed a new car 6 years ago, her first thought was to ‘get an SUV’. I asked her ‘why’?
There was no good reason.
I steered her to a decent, reliable car (Hyundai Elantra GT hatchback… which is still running strong today)
And when a friend of mind and his wife were having another kid, she immediately said that she wanted some big assed SUV for “more space”. I told my friend that if it’s space they wanted, then it’s a minivan they should get.
And I showed the actual space specs of common minivans compared to the SUV the wife wanted… and minivans blew the SUV out of the water in terms of space and practicality.
So they are driving a minivan now.
Unless a knowledgeable person like an Oppo intervenes, many people will just mindlessly get an ‘SUV’.
And the result of this is the death of solid, affordable vehicles like the Mitsubishi Lancer.
A nice reliant automobile!
Definitely the kind of car people say they want, though it would be a CVT auto for those these days. and that would be a problem for me.
rrrRRRRAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrr!
And there’s 40.
What’s not to like?
Jatco, is that you??
Yes, actually. Yes, it is.
I’ve always liked these. Probably the best looking cheap sedan of its era. And it was a long era, these things were in production for ages.