RE: Shed Of The Week: Mitsubishi FTO

[Lewtyper]

Three pages and no Female Touring Option?

Poor show!

Edited by Lewtyper on Saturday 17th December 13:28

[pSyCoSiS]

I do like the engine note on these. Don't really like the looks or interior.

[hondansx]

I assume these must sound good; surely can't go wrong with a V6?!

Like others, my experience of them was in in Gran Turismo, where they were a great starter car. There was also the LM model, which was the one that could make big power!



In period, they looked cool on the road. I remember, from a distance, they looked like a DB7. In fact, my dad had a I6 DB7 in the late 90s and accidentally flashed one up!

[Hrimfaxi]

pidsy said:

Hrimfaxi said:

Gran Turismo 1 (I think?) You could tune one of these to 900bhp..

I've always had a soft spot for the FTO, don't see many on the roads anymore. If it had been based around the Evo, it would have been fantastic - imagine an Evo's engine and running gear in one of these.

Ben and mark @eurospec built a 600hp FTO a few years back. It was a proper 1/4 mile machine. Spec here:

http://www.euro-spec2000.co.uk/Our-Cars/

What a beast! Are there any videos of it in action?

[Japveesix]

S10GTA said:

Had a GS back in 2004ish. FT-Slow it was christened. Enjoyed it tho.

I'm not really sure why anyone with even a passing interest in cars would decide to buy the GS over better models (or quicker alternatives), much less then criticise it for being slow (surprise surprise).

Anyway, not every owner is a chav and not every example is totally unloved or hideously modified. I genuinely loved mine which was a late reg GPX manual and it was fairly immaculate (most of the time) and a really enjoyable car both to drive and own:






Yes they're not rocket ships (but they're 20 years old and less than a grand) but mine kept pace well with a friend's GTV 3.0 so I'm a bit surprised that everyone here went in their friend's cars and struggled to keep up with Nissan micras or whatever.

A well looked after manual gpx is a 200bhp, quickish car that handles very well (and reviews of the time seemed to agree with this) and sounds better than almost anything else you can get for that price. Sadly there are simply bugger all left for sale, let alone any actual decent examples, and so they'll no doubt slowly dissappear from the roads and always be sneered at by many who only ever sat in a ropey old 1995 tiptronic GS their mate owned etc.

I'd have another in a heartbeat if I could afford it and could find a low mileage and unmodified GPvR.

[V8A*ndy]

This little clip is from a while back, however they do go and steer rather well and sound great with a Milltek.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2bMp_gg1vM

[pidsy]

Hrimfaxi said:

pidsy said:

Hrimfaxi said:

Gran Turismo 1 (I think?) You could tune one of these to 900bhp..

I've always had a soft spot for the FTO, don't see many on the roads anymore. If it had been based around the Evo, it would have been fantastic - imagine an Evo's engine and running gear in one of these.

Ben and mark @eurospec built a 600hp FTO a few years back. It was a proper 1/4 mile machine. Spec here:

http://www.euro-spec2000.co.uk/Our-Cars/

What a beast! Are there any videos of it in action?

There used to be on youtube. They're pretty rubbish at looking after their website and channel. Most of their cars have won time attack championships.

[anonymous-user]

Tried one some 12 years ago before buying an Integra R, and have to say the fto was worse in every way.

Felt heavy and relatively sluggish given they were meant to be a performance car, and the photos of some examples here only reinforces the fact they look pretty terrible, especially the white example that's been ruined with chav bits.

Not sure why anyone would choose one over the competition, but suppose they are extremely cheap so have that in their favour.

[F1GTRUeno]

TNH said:

Always liked these after playing Gran Turismo back in the day. I suspect I'd be disappointed if I ever actually drove one though.

Very much this.

Used to see a fair few back in the 90's and always thought they were great looking things. Majority of them were in the silver-blue-grey sorta colour.

When I got GT and they were on there it was my car of choice in Arcade Mode.

Always wanted one but there are so few that are unmolested and even fewer than are in decent nick. Suspect like you said they wouldn't be very good if you could get one though.

[lord trumpton]

JONTY_L said:

that's bone stock.

What's 'bone stock'? Something used to make soup isn't it?

[hammo19]

Had one of these in blue.....lovely sounding V6. Not designed to float - it was written off after the local river burst its banks and flooded the station car park. I was effectively parked on the drain that was the sink plug.

[Mr2Mike]

TooMany2cvs said:

Mr2Mike said:

CalNaughtonJnr said:

What the heck is a genital topiary footrest?!?

Something you rest your genital topiary on I would think. The 'foot' seems to be extraneous.

No, it's where you put your foot whilst you've got the bushtrimmer out.

It all makes sense now. Pass the mind bleach please.

[S10GTA]

Japveesix said:

S10GTA said:

Had a GS back in 2004ish. FT-Slow it was christened. Enjoyed it tho.

I'm not really sure why anyone with even a passing interest in cars would decide to buy the GS over better models (or quicker alternatives), much less then criticise it for being slow (surprise surprise).

In my defence I knew nothing, and I mean nothing about cars when I purchased it in 2003(ish). For me the Internet was in its infancy so there was not a huge amount of knowledge out there for someone who knew nothing in the first place.

I'd passed my test in 2000 and my first car was a mk 1 fiesta then a mk 5 escort. Both were slow so when I saw the FTO it looked incredible. It went really fast (in my non car world) and because it was a 1.8 it wouldn't be too much to insure...(2200 per year!) I didn't even know they did different engines in these cars for a good year or so.

Paid 6k for it at the time. In hindsight the garage must have laughed their socks off when I drove away, but I was made up. I still remember how I felt when they opened the small hanger type building and showed me it the first time. It looks incredible.

What it did do however is introduced me to the world of cars, introduce me to my best mate and introduce me to my first proper girlfriend. I learnt a lot from that car.

M807 UDP, I'm sorry I stuffed you into a curb and then flogged you on eBay to some poor bloke.

[MorganP104]

Not Shed's greatest effort, which may have been (slightly) improved by using this car as the basis for the article:

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/m...

Rubbish auto 'box notwithstanding.

[Liquid Knight]

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=155...

Criminally under rated cars both at the time and now, import only made them expensive to insure and the few UK models were all automatics and expensive to buy. I would never say no to a good FTO

I'm stalking a Mivec manual as you read this.