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Old 10-23-2005, 06:01 PM
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Are you people familiar with this car? I know it was not available in the usa (I said "was not" cause is not in production anymore since 2000). Although you can buy a used one for the same price as a used tiburon. I think is one of the prettiest sport cars ever made. The dimensions of the car are similar to the tiburon, although I think is a little bit wider.

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The car is coming with two different engines and three different models, the first engine is a weak 1.8L 4cyl. producing around 138whp, the second engine is a powerful 2.0L V6 producing 180whp and with the addition of the MIVEC technology the engine produce 200whp.

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Old 10-23-2005, 06:05 PM
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the FTO is the car Mitsu should have imported rather than the weaksauce Third Gen Eclipse.
Old 10-23-2005, 06:06 PM
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fooock yeah!!!!!!!!!!

and are you calling our tib's 1.8L 4cyl 110hp engine wimpy? (good, cuz it is)...

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but damn, nice find. and for the same price as a tib, woot woot!
Old 10-23-2005, 06:07 PM
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I guess they didn't want competition in America with their own 3000GT, which already had competition from 300ZX, Supra, RX-7, Dodge Stealth, etc.
Old 10-23-2005, 06:39 PM
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Wow thats nice car mabe i should import one to the states when i over in iraq =) would be a nice DD
Old 10-23-2005, 06:46 PM
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hail.gif hail.gif hail.gif OMFG If I can get one I want one! That is SOOO much sexier than the 3000 GT. I agree.... It's like a 3000 GT and a Tiburon had an illigitimate child and wanted to hide the fact from the US! lmao.gif If anyone can figure out how to get one over here I'd be game! fing02.gif
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That's what I wanted to get at the time I bought the Tib/Coupe... Like in the States, it was never officially brought into Australia (sold only as a "Grey Import") which sucks; It made it too hard for me to get finance for it mad.gif

For some reason the Kiwis (New Zealand) did get it... which sucks even more wink1.gif They also get the G35/V35 Skylines & all sorts of other cool cars sad.gif

Anyway, back on topic, the FTO 2.0L V6 MIVEC GPX with 5 speed manual is the one to have... Too many of them have the INVEC-S (I think that's what it was called) semi-auto transmission.
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AHHHHH was just on ebay UK and they are cheap. And there RD1 F2's on there for 4k ahhhhhhhhh must but must buy
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Some more pictures, although they are not real smile.gif:














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kind of looks like a 3000gt supra combo



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