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We need to talk about the GTO. This is a car which deserves to be remembered more fondly than it is. Marketed in the UK as the Mitsubishi 3000GT (for copyright reasons), the car that was elsewhere known by the iconic Gran Turismo Omologato name has become the butt of many a journalistic joke these days. It’s fashionable to disregard it as a flabby irrelevance, a pseudo-sports car that was made undesirably heavy by all of its complex technology – all-wheel-drive, four-wheel steering, automatically adjustable aero, adaptive suspension and so on. But in an age when such things are found on many a high-end supercar, perhaps it’s time to reassess the GTO… and consider that maybe it was just well ahead of its time?

The model certainly launched at a peculiar time for the Japanese motor industry. It all comes down to, weirdly,