Car Of The Day: June 25, 2009

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Car Of The Day: June 25, 2009; Racing Champions '95 Mitsubishi Eclipse
Topic Started: Jun 25 2009, 02:26 AM (84 Views)
Swifty	Jun 25 2009, 02:26 AM Post #1
Multiple Mustang Syndrome: '82 3.3 & '08 GT Posts: 22,576 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: July 3, 2006 DLM or Cardboard Collector DLM Theme Of Choice Default Gender Male Favorite Arcade Game 4 Wheel Madness Preferred Brand Yat Ming SG Blog Yes Location Lebanon, Pennsylvania USA	Today's car of the day is Racing Champions' 1995 Mitsubishi Eclipse. Wikipedia The Mitsubishi Eclipse is a coupe that has been in production since 1989 for left hand drive markets. It was named after an eighteenth century English racehorse which won 26 races, and has also been sold as the Eagle Talon and the Plymouth Laser captive imports through Mitsubishi Motors' close relationship with the Chrysler Corporation. Their partnership was known as Diamond-Star Motors, or DSM. As of 2009, the Eclipse is officially available in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, China, South Korea, the Philippines, and Brazil. For more information and pictures of the real car please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Eclipse From "The Fast & The Furious" line comes a repaint of the green Eclipse blown up in the first movie. This does not replicate a real car from the movies, unfortunately. The paint job is stunning, but I could do without the NX ads on the car. Wikipedia The second generation car maintained the market focus of the 1G car, but had a major update in styling and had different engines between trim levels. New to the line was a convertible model, the Spyder, introduced in 1996. The convertible was available in two trims: the GS and the GS-T. The first is powered by the non-turbo 4G64 engine, and the latter by the turbo 4G63 found in the GS-T (turbo) and GSX (all-wheel-drive) hardtop models. There was no convertible model powered by the Chrysler 420a. The turbocharged motor was a more powerful version of the previous one (210 hp vs 195 hp). The non-turbo motor found only in the hardtop RS and GS trims was a version of the Chrysler Neon engine, manufactured by Chrysler and delivered to and installed at the Diamond Star Motors facility. The Talon was discontinued in 1998 because lack of sales in previous years.
	Thanks to cerberus128128 for the 1/18 Daytona!


james_autos	Jun 25 2009, 05:40 AM Post #2
SUV Posts: 1,951 Group: Members Member #199 Joined: August 24, 2007	I'd like one of these to 'tone' down.
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jedimario	Jun 26 2009, 06:57 AM Post #3
RAWR Posts: 3,936 Group: Moderators Member #366 Joined: October 19, 2007 DLM or Cardboard Collector DLM Gender Male Location Clemson University	Er, a bit loud there.



ivantt	Jun 26 2009, 09:28 PM Post #4
New casting?? Quick! Take it apart! Posts: 2,188 Group: Members Member #575 Joined: January 6, 2008	The wheels should have been pink.
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Swifty	Jun 27 2009, 04:52 AM Post #5
Multiple Mustang Syndrome: '82 3.3 & '08 GT Posts: 22,576 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: July 3, 2006 DLM or Cardboard Collector DLM Theme Of Choice Default Gender Male Favorite Arcade Game 4 Wheel Madness Preferred Brand Yat Ming SG Blog Yes Location Lebanon, Pennsylvania USA	Actually, I'd think yellow rims would look better. Plus the color yellow supposedly adds five horsepower to most tuner cars. A Honda Type R badge is good for ten, regardless of whether the car is a Type R...or even a Honda (I've seen "Type R" on a Mustang for crying out loud, and I'm not talking about the Cobra R either!).
	Thanks to cerberus128128 for the 1/18 Daytona!


james_autos	Jul 3 2009, 09:39 AM Post #6
SUV Posts: 1,951 Group: Members Member #199 Joined: August 24, 2007	And how many votes did this thing win by then?
	It doesn't matter how good you are at something, there's always a million other guys better than you - Homer Simpson


craftymore	Jul 3 2009, 10:17 AM Post #7
Nothing Runs Like A Deere Posts: 7,432 Group: Moderators Member #50 Joined: August 7, 2006 Preferred Brand M2 Machines Location Charleston, Illinois	james_autos Jul 3 2009, 09:39 AM And how many votes did this thing win by then? Two votes over the JL Rivy and the MB '79 Ford.
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james_autos	Jul 3 2009, 01:13 PM Post #8
SUV Posts: 1,951 Group: Members Member #199 Joined: August 24, 2007	Sickening.
	It doesn't matter how good you are at something, there's always a million other guys better than you - Homer Simpson


James	Jul 4 2009, 01:06 PM Post #9
Mr.Bowtie Posts: 5,499 Group: Members Member #355 Joined: October 14, 2007 DLM or Cardboard Collector Both Favorite Arcade Game Pacman Preferred Brand Johnny Lightning	james_autos Jul 3 2009, 01:13 PM Sickening. yah you win some and you lose some, and I think we just lost big time here. Yuck!
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