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Mitsubishi's experience with sports cars starts in the early 1980s with the development and sale of the Mitsubishi Starion. Up until this point, Mistubishi Motors had sold smaller keicars for the Japanese and American marketsalthough many were rebadged as American makes (such as the Dodge Colt). The Starion, similarly sold as the Chrysler Conquest, offered performance and features on-par with sports cars offered by Japanese makers with more experience in performance motoring.
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The Mitsubishi Starion is a two door, turbocharged four cylinder rear wheel drive five seat sports car that was in production from 1982 to 1990 throughout various locations around the world, and also marketed in North America as the Conquest under the Chrysler, Dodge, and Plymouth names. During production, the Starion was produced in both a narrowbody and widebody design. The design proved durable, and few changes were made between models, with only simple improvements demarking the change from one model to the next. In the United States market, there was only one major change when the car was upgraded to the TSi model, featuring an intercooler and five-bolt wheels replacing the four-bolt wheels it had inherited from the rear wheel drive Galant Lambda. Without any obvious flaws, the design was not without drawbacks. The design was somewhat unusual however, and didn't have widespread appeal. It may have been due to this factor that the Starion never brought Mitsubishi the success it desired in the marketplace to match the vehicles success on the racing circuit. Production ceased entirely by 1990, and its successor, GTO - was fitted with the mechanicals of the recently demonstrated Mitsubishi HSX Sports Coupe concept vehicle.
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It seems that Mitsubishi's chunky Starion coupe was so christened as the result of a misheard conversation 'twixt occident and orient. American marketeers wanted a car called "Stallion" as a rival for Ford's Mustang: Japanese phonetics did the rest. Stories such as this one should always be taken with a grain of salt, because they depend upon the premise of Three diamonds a multi-national, multi-million-dollar company's making its marketing decisions in a vacuum (nobody in all of Mitsubishi noticed the error or thought to question the name), and, having caught their mistake, deciding that the model name of their first entry into the lucrative American market wasn't important enough to merit correction.
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Although Husky Heavy-Duty Mitsubishi Floor Mats and Weathertech Mitsubishi Floor Mats are both semi-custom floor mats, the two companies have different patterns so that between them, you should find the floor mat for your Mitsubishi which will fit well. Floor mats for your Mitsubishi that are suited to all conditions are called Mitsubishi All-Weather Floor Mats. They are basically a rubber floor mat or floor liner for Mitsubishi which have indentations and grooves. These trap water, sand, slush, snow and practically anything else! Unlike Mitsubishi carpet floor mats, Mitsubishi Rubber floor mats can generally take a beating and maintain the same appearance. In the main, they are easier to clean as spraying them off with a hose normally does the trick. If you're looking for a way to enhance your Mitsubishi's appearance, Mitsubishi carpet floor mats are the perfect solution. These floor mats are custom made for your Mitsubishi's interior and are thicker and heavier than the factory floor mats that you initially received with your Mitsubishi.
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Available in a somewhat staggering array of variants in markets around the world, the Starion was produced in both widebody and narrowbody styles in its lifetime, as well as turbo and non-turbo versions. Interestingly, one of the basest-of-the-base model (the Japanese GX) didn't feature an independent rear end. Despite some racing success, especially in rallying (where a variant was developed for steroidal Group B class), the Starion never really caught on with the general public and was euthanized in 1990, replaced by the far-more-popular Eclipse and its Chrysler-brands-badged siblings.
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