MITSUBISHI 3000GT
IF YOU’RE OF AN age where you remember when the Mitsubishi 3000GT VR-4 was one of the fastest of Japan’s ridiculously hightech new breed of coupes for the ’90s, then you’ll probably remember one key fact – the Mitsubishi’s weight.
Had it been a film and television star snapped holidaying in France, it would’ve been on the front page of New Idea faster than you could say ‘pass me another cream bun’. But with the benefit of hindsight and from the context of a different era, there’s something deeply wonderful about a two-plus-two as OTT as the 3000GT. After all, it only weighs 1720kg, so how about some body positivity, people!
Thing was, back in 1990 when the 3000GT efftively showed the door to the already deceased Starion, its bulk was something of an eyebrow-raiser.
Perhaps overcompensating for the rear-drive Starion Turbo’s relative crudeness – certainly in comparison with the sophisticated second-gen RX-7 (1985) and third-gen Supra (1986) – the top-spec 3000GT VR-4
