I miss what Mitsubishi used to be. They were pretty much a Japanese Citroen. I know of at least one of these still driving around, owned by an elderly barber shop owner who I've been pestering to sell for years to no avail....The thing is mint. It's a shame that these were auto only in the US....the transmissions in these were a major weak spot.
@@barryervin8536 It's fairly obvious that I wasn't referring to serviceability when I made the comparison. I was talking about their quirkiness and character.
Sadly the thing that makes Mitsubishi Motors unique as a Japanese Citroën is what doomed their company. Their over-excessive spending on the engineering and the research and development is too much that they are losing money for every brilliant car they sell. The Mitsubishi GTO (3000 GT in the US) is probably one of their most expensive over-engineered car in the 1990's. But at that time they are already had poor sales in the US. By the time the 1990's Asian financial crisis hit Japan, Mitsubishi Motors was hit very hard. Add to that their parent corporation's ancient methods of Japanese company management of being a Zaibatsu, thus spelled chaos in their corporation, shutting down a lot of Mitsubishi divisions that are not profitable. Therefore we can see a foreseeable doom in the future of Mitsubishi Motors. I hope that the management of Renault - Nissan will help Mitsubishi Motors be revived.
Just baught an '89 last week for a 2nd car, and love it! So many gadgets and everything works! All the buttons and lights, sunroof, cold a.c. Thing is mint
I bought an 87 brand new and had it for 13 years and put 200k miles on it. 5 speed manual had no problems, super smooth clutch. Very reliable car. Aside from regular maintenance it needed the air suspension motor replaced once and the original stereo went out and I replaced it with an original that was used from the junk yard because it was that good of a stereo and you had the controls on the steering wheel for it. That mute button came in handy at times. Overall a great value! However, I would not touch a Mitsu product now given what's happened to the company.
It's a Mitsubishi Magna but with different tall lights. They looked ahead of their time and were pretty well made too. They were popular in Australia for a long time.
Yes the Australian Magna was a widened Galant and the wagon was developed in Australia. All cars built had the 4G54 Astron II engine (2555cc = 2.6L) with either Carburettor or fuel injection, manual and auto transmissions. The TP Magna Elite was a good example with it's two tone finish, digital dash, velour interior and so much more.
Steering mounted radio controls, different suspension settings at the push of a button. There was no need for a Delorean to experience things like this in 1985. Mitsubishi Motors Australia assembled a widened version of this car called the Magna which sold well as a large family car for five years. They also brought out a wagon version. They didn't have all these fancy toys though. The ride was excellent like a limo at an affordable price.
My first car was a 1998 Galant. Good looking car and comfortable. Sold it with nearly 300k km with no major issues. I miss the days when Mitsubishi was a cool brand. I really don’t know how they keep in business these days. I rarely see a new Mitsubishi.
chaseman94, the only way Mitsubishi would do if they replaced the Outlander name since it is sized just about the same with the last gen Galant (they made the 2-row Endeavor crossover based on that very platform, shared with today's 3-row Dodge Journey).
My family had one of these purchased new in 1986. I took my driver's test in this car when i was 16. Everyone else in our neighborhood had Accords, Camrys or Audis and Peugot's if they were a little fancier, but we were the only ones with this car. I liked that it was so unique and my sister and I loved the reclining rear seat on car trips.
In Australia we had a version of this called a Magna which had a 2.6 motor with choice of auto or 5 spd.manual transmissions and sedan and wagon versions. While similar in appearance, the Magna was 2.6 inches wider than the Galant.
I always thought these were the best looking Galants Mitsubishi ever offered. They were their flagship and really quite stunning. They gave the Toyota Cressida and Nissan Maxima a run for the money but since they only offered a 4 cylinder, most bought the rivals instead. Also, you never seem to see these cars on the road or even for sale anywhere. Mitsubishi obviously didn't sell many of them and 30 + years later, they are almost all gone. Great video.
@@klwthe3rd one of us must have it wrong. Here in europe the galant and the sigma are two different sizes of car. The galant has never been equivalent to a maxima here, it would counterpart the nissan p11 Primera here. The car in the video looks to be too small for being a sigma, but I could be fooled by the format. But I had a 87 galant for years and it looks like one to me.
@@merqury5 Were both are not wrong. You should know that European models can be quite different than the models sold here in the United States. I'm not familiar on what went on in Europe at the time, but here, the Galant came out in 1985. In 1988 the name was changed to the Galant Sigma as the car increased in size. After sometime, they dropped the Sigma name and went back to just using Galant only.
@@klwthe3rd cool! I think we are approaching something. Here. Id love to have one again some day. The sigma here had a 3.0L engine that you could balance a coin on while it ran.
My dad used to own a 1988 Mitsubishi V3000 similar to this but with the 6G72 V6. they were marketed as a Falcon/Commodore alternative. I never noticed how much this car looks like it was designed by the french. Its got a Japanese Citroen/Renault/Peugeot vibe to it.
Having a laugh at some of the replies. These were also made in Australia as the Mitsubishi Magna. A slightly wider body version of the Japanese design. They had absolutely nothing to do with Citroen. In later updated models they were exported to the US as the Australian made Diamanté. In 1985 it was released in a sedan only in 4 models. In 1986 a wagon was added to the range also in the four models. The wagon was so popular it was exported to its home country Japan. The Magna won several awards in Australia. The Magna/Diamanté continued in many updated models. Many were exported to the US and many other countries around the world until 2005 when it was replaced with the American designed Galant know in Australia as a 380. 38 standing for the 3.8 ltr engine. The design being American was very bland by Australian standards and although it was rated as the best car ever built in Australia and won many awards for safety, performance and fuel economy sales were slow. The factory closed in 2008 ending Mitsubishi's production in Australia.
I bought a 1985 gray like this test car for my wife. The $600 electronic suspension was a lot more than that when it came time to fix broken parts, but the ride was superb. After it was totalled, we got the Sigma version. Suspension costs remained the same.
Mitsubishi New Zealand actually painted their 5th gen Galants (called the Sigma there) in a slightly more purply brown colour and called it 'Cappuccino'. I miss mine!
@@nlpnt Mine was brown over gold two tone exterior with 5 shades of faded brown interior. But I switched out the interior for a maroon interior just to add another 80's-tastic colour.
So THAT's what that color was! I had one of these as a teenager, same color as in the video and neither me nor my friends could ever figure out what it should be called. They had a slight amount of pearl-type shine in that color, almost as if it had microscopic glitter flakes embedded. I only say pearl because it's a little similar to some Lexus models I've had but obviously not as good and like 20 years prior. If you caught this thing in the sun just right you saw a pink-ish brown slightly glittery color - I fool you not. I added a manual switch to the wiring when I was changing stereo head units out and I basically could turn off ALL exterior lights except for the headlamps. This was useful at times during the night ;)
@@kinkane5566 I had an '87 model passed down from my parents who bought it new. That color was called Dakota Sand. To this day I've never driven a car as quiet as that one. As a new driver I wanted to install an amp and subs. I'll never forget trying to run the wires. The sound deadening material had to be over an inch thick! It was amazing. The car was like a vault.
My mid 80's Chevy S-10 had 14's lol Things have definitely changed! Sometimes I wish things hadn't, as the owner of an ancient Honda it's no fun looking for new 13" tires.
@@nightmathzombieethan same story when I had my civic wagon, but I did find some performance 185/60/13 federal tires , they had good grip on 38 PSI and it lowered the car about an inch . I also had koni str.t shocks so the car sat low enough for fun cornering but not too low that it would scrape unless you had 2-3 people sitting in the back
My family had a early 90's Galant in the 2000's. That was by far the best compact car of it's day hands down, back when Mitsubishi actually made an effort doing cars unlike now
i had one these as a company car from june of 85 to july of 87 when i left the company. as i recall my boss took it after i had it, and drove it well into the 90s. these were really well built. i remember bein amazed at all the gadgets. before that i had an old volkswagon bug and this thing was like a damn space ship in comparison!!
I had one of these, it was definitely strange. You could change the angle of the back seat by pulling some lever and the area where distance changed was somewhat like an accordion. I got a bobble-head Taco Bell dog and crammed it in the middle between the top of the back seat and the back horizontal area. It was greatness. As I drove around, the Taco Bell dog was bobbing its head.
Motorweek famously did exaggerated crap in their tests, such as the way they ram the gear shift back and forth through its positions or the way they carelessly load luggage into a trunk, dragging the suitcase across the bumper and weatherstripping to drive home their point that lift-over is high. It was annoying to me back then. Now, I find it amusing how stupid they looked doing those things.
@@briansmith8361 I think there was some confusion back then as Mitsubishi had French/Italian sounding names without harsh consonant ends. Cordia, Tredia, Montero, Mirage, ....Galan(t)?. Was the T supposed to be silent? I do remember later Galant commercials where they say Galant with the T. More to the topic- I only ever saw two of these cars in the flesh, which is surprising considering how well they liked the car in this review. I guess they were expensive for a Mitsubishi. The Toyota Cressida had the wonderful inline 6 and "traditional" rear drive, which would have swayed many buyers wanting a cruiser without the sport/manual.
This review must have been produced before Mitsubishi's U.S. marketing determined the preferred pronunciation. When in doubt, use the french pronunciation for a french word.
I’ve grown up pronouncing it with a “T.” My mother, who leased three Galants between 1998 and 2008, pronounced it as such, too. I’ve never heard it pronounced as “Galan.”
Agreed, though I'm glad to see they are oversampling to 1080p instead of going with 480p that so many others use when they upload vintage SD video. (is it that much more effort to go with 1080p?) As well as keeping 4:3 aspect ratio instead of zooming in to fill 16:9. (i.e. JustPlanes) I don't know what RUclips does, but there must be various quality settings for 480p since it seems all over the map (when using 480p) if it's going to look just ok or worse.
@@nessuno5403 Wasn't it based off this and Mitsubishi Australia just extended and widened the chassis. Apparently it shared mostly the same tooling from the galant.
@@REPOMAN24722 the only tooling shared was for the doors, guards and pillars so it was a significantly different derivate chassis. It also had to be strengthened.
@@nessuno5403 I guess if you could call it a "new" car, I drive an Octavia, golf chassis just extended, it's pretty much a golf, I just call it a modified golf.
I live in New Zealand where this car was locally assembled and called the Mitsubishi Sigma with a 1.8 or 2.0 litre engine (including turbocharged) between 1984 and 1988. In 1988 NZ became the only country where they did drop in a 3 litre V6 and called it a Mitsubishi V3000 in both manual and automatic versions. In 1990 they grafted the more curved front of a Mitsubishi Eterna onto the V3000 as a facelift. It was a good looking (and fast) vehicle! We were also able to avoid those sealed beam headlights!!
Up until 1983 all U.S. bound vehicles had to use the sealed beam headlights, ether round or rectangular, they came in standard sizes. Then in 1984, composite headlights started to appear. So it wasn't a styling choice to have those instead of composite. Though this 86' Mitsubishi has sealed beam, I suspect they had not made a face-lift composite version for the U.S. market yet. Though looking at google pics, it seems the Japanese version also had sealed beam at least up though 1986 before the sixth generation redesign in 1987.
@@marcusdamberger My mum had a top of the range 1986 Sigma SE (digital dash etc) and those had one piece fully glassed over aero headlights. I thought sealed beam were individual lights that weren't glassed over. My bad
@@lynx318therealone Nope. The Magna was a wide bodied version of the Sigma with a 2.6 litre engine. They were only built in Australia for the Australian market in both sedan and wagon models (1985-1991). The Magna wagon was sold in NZ along side the Sigma then the V3000 as the 84-88 Sigma/Galant was never made as a wagon.
@@NeighborhoodCarReviews from an 80s perspective, right? Because the tech in my 2019 Corolla hatch makes the tech in that car look like stone carvings in a cave!
Kevin Allen Oh, of course! 30 years ago, this was considered technologically well equipped. Today, even the most basic cars have all that and more. I just like seeing how everything was.
@@SearchEast2069 true. Got 55k original miles on mine and it hasn't let me down in 32+ years. Torque is a fairly respectable 190ft.lbs Don't get me wrong, it's slow, and the 3 speed is made of glass, but it keeps on chugging knock on wood
A wide body version was designed and built by Mitsubishi australia which was named the Magna, of which later generations were imported into the USA as the Diamante
And could come in wagon starting from the 1987 TN model. The only engine option was the 2.6L Astron II. The narrow body Japanese and US models could have a 3.0L V6.
But the Australian version was stripped of a lot of features (especially electronics) because it had to compete on price and was therefore not in the luxury category (although the higher models SE and Elite were well equipped relative to their rivals)
I love Mitsubishi prior to the 2000’s they made some awesome cars, well ahead of they’re time. While we lived in Germany in the 90’s my dad almost bought one of these in that same brown color but for whatever reason the deal fell through and he bought a BMW 316i instead.
A friend at work had one and let me borrow it for an errand a couple times. It was Black with a Midnight Blue interior and looked so amazing with those wheels shined up. I loved driving it and would love to find one in decent condition!
Not exactly what I'd call a competitor to the V6 powered Cressida and Maxima, but still a nice car, although rare. That test car had some paint work done on the driver side front. It didn't quite match up.
As a former Mitsubishi owner, I ca attest that their factory paint jobs always had poor matches between materials. Both my Galants (2001 & 2003) had front and rear bumpers that didn’t match the body. The Diamanté I had (2002) was built in Australia and was better matched.
I would love to collect all of the old Japanese cars. This would be one of them. Mitsubishi always tried to give you more for the money. Though they're not as good as their other Japanese competitors they were always very innovative at Mitsubishi
:D I had this one. Maybe in Europe You will have lot's of luck. For example i saw Galant from 1993 for 400€ for sale this week. But as You can see from vide, brakes are not well. Maybe because not heavy motor on them. I have also this experience of little longer braking distance.
I own a 86 model as shown here with a manual and an 89 GTi High Performance model. Great cars. In Europe, the 87-93 generation is still available, but only as mid-range model. The 84-87 are ultra rare as well.
Wow, Motorweek was way off that time. The Galant was never in the Toyota Cressida/Nissan Maxima segment. Those were rear wheel drive V6 luxury cars. The Galant was a 4 cylinder compact in the Accord/Camry segment with a bit more feature content to differentiate itself.
I saw this and thought why does that car look so skinny? The then penny dropped, let me explain. Chrysler Australia began assembling Mitsubishi Galants in 1971 marketed first as a Valiant Galant then it became the Chrysler Galant and was produced through four different model changes until 1977. The GA, GB, GC and GD. They were popular and gained a good reputation for reliability. So 1977 brought along it's replacement. It was another Mitsubishi, called the Chrysler Sigma assembled here by Chrysler Australia and it was such an enormous hit that Chrysler sometimes had trouble keeping up with demand. Fast forward to 1980 and the entire manufacturing operation of Chrysler Australia was sold to Mitsubishi. The Sigma continued (obviously badged as a Mitsubishi) but it's replacement was on the horizon. Mitsubishi Australia looked at it and obviously figured that it would not cut it against what Ford and Holden (GM) had on offer. They went radical and spliced the body to add 2.5" or 65 millimeteres to its width, equipped it with a 2.6 litre four cylinder engine and in 1985 the Mitsubishi Magna was born. It was an instant hit and took the market by storm and in a very short time it was the third best seller. As a footnote though, I would like to add that a lot of the engineers behind this ground breaking car were former Chrysler Australia engineers.
We didn't get that adjustable suspension in Australia, but it looks like the Subaru setup in the Leone wagons of the time, the replacement strut price was so exorbitant, manufacturers were doing conversion standard struts to replace them.
that car definitely screams 1986 with its futuristic angular interior and same with the exterior, I can hear Michael Jackson playing on that premium stereo now...
My Dad had a '85 Galant. There were issues with the 4 speed automatic. He traded it in for an '87 Starion automatic (he was 78. A boy racer at heart). The Starion went for $18K. With the Galant trade in and some sort of added discount he paid $6000. My Dad thought he got taken for a ride until I pointed out that the '87 Mitsubishi Mirage (5 speed non turbo) I had recently purchased was $9K and that NO he wasn't taken for a ride.
About 20 years ago I had a slightly modified 1991 MR2 turbo and got smoked from a red light by a Galant VR4 like I was going in reverse. I found out some time later the car I lost to was well known and ran high 11’s in the qtr mile. Still prob my worst wood shed beating to this day.
The Car Crazy Guy, figure that when Nissan introduced the Murano mid sized crossover in '02 with standard 18" wheels (very commonplace today in the category) that was "something to stare in awe"...
This generation of the Galant sold well in Europe too. The GLS/GLX were much the same as the car in the video, but there was also a GL with a more spartan interior. Ofcourse most were manual. I liked the smooth flowing lines, the comfy ride, and the thrummy sound from the engine. On paper not that much power, but in normal driving a fine performer. Not fuel injected but it did start and run like one, flawless starting and idling. The next generation seemed much less ambitious, more trying to match watch the European manufacturers were doing.
Quality, quiet ride, 4-passenger comfort, convenience, standard equipment, good looks.... Ahhh Mitsubishi how you have fallen, please come back as you used to be.
We've had a few Mitsubishis in my family over the decades and I didn't even know the Galant has been around this long in the US! I was thinking it came out with what I guess is the generation after this one.
My aunt used to have a 2000 Galant ES 2.4i in bodega beige since new until it hit around 400,000 miles on the odometer. Had oil leakage and battery problems plus faulty gas cap and trunk releases, along with a cracked dashboard that's too cheap. Rear seat is cramped for adults.
There was a station wagon version of these, sold as the Mitsubishi Magna in Australia, nice design. My dad had a sedan with manual trans here in Europe back in the day.
@@albear972 Mitsubishis of the 1980s were very different than Mitsubishis of today. They were loaded with premium electronic gadgets for the day and generally had more tech than rivals from Toyota and Nissan. Unfortunately they had not got to grips with rust, and these cars rotted away faster than most comtemporary cars from the era, which combined with their low sales volume is why they were a rare sight by the early 1990s. Later Galants would sell better, especially when they started to be built in the USA, but those cars were more conventional and didn't have the charm or technical sophistication of the cars from a decade before. We might not have known it then, but that was the beginning of Mitsubishi's big downfall. In many ways, this Galant was ahead of its time and made a compelling choice versus traditional segment leaders. Much as Mitsubishi was later known for turning a basic compact car into the EVO, in the 1980s all Mitsubishis were known to be on the forefront of in-car technology. Even their basic econoboxes led the way with sophisticated engines and more than the usual amount of features. They may not have been as reliable as Toyota, as all-around competent as Honda, or have the sales of Datsun/Nissan, but these were decent cars loaded with features you never knew you wanted. That drove their price higher than rivals, thus why fewer were sold.
You're totally right! Like I said before in another comment 1986 cars were most modern then. A year before they seemed ancient meaning most 85 and older models. ( no third brake lights, old carbed engines, older styling ect)
I' m sitting here on a Thursday night. That was when Motorweek ran on PBS in Baltimore. In '86, I couldn't decide whether to watch Motorweek or The Cosby Show! (2/6/20)
albear972, today those U$33.5K would buy you a lesser equipped V6 Camry or a T-2.0L Accord, so the Galant was a wee bit expensive against the competition (being compared and almost priced with the larger RWD Cressida, but competing with the FWD Camry and the smaller compact Altima of the era), something Mitsubishi would try to correct with the (3.0L) V6 Diamante.
djkenny, not same category, Bub... You're comparing a COMPACT CROSSOVER with the regular (non-turbo) version of the large I4. I'm talking about upline (250+hp) MIDSIZED SEDANS. Try an XT (Turbo) Forester and check how much more that one cost, and that's still a compact (Subaru makes two larger crossovers, the midsized 2-row Outback and fullsized 3-row Ascent, sized and priced above the Forester).
Never drove a Galant, but did drive the 2nd gen Australian Magna years back, which shares some DNA. It had the 2.6 Astron engine with a manual transmission. Although not a "cool" car by most locals standards, it had a few interesting innovations that some cars today still don't all have. Among other things, it had a seamless laser welded roofline and 180 degree folded metal joints in the rear wheel arches (most only fold 90 degrees, which catches crud and promotes rust). The car was the size of a crown vic, but was so light and stiff that you soon forgot how big it was. If I didn't know any better, I'd say Mitsubishi had their sights on the BMW-7 of the day. Even the styling hinted at it. It also had one of the most precise cable shift linkages I'd ever laid a hand on.
The second generation Magna has nothing to do with this to the extent you say. That was a hybrid of Sigma and Diamante, the latter being benchmarked against the BMW 5 Series. Your facts are twisted.
@@nessuno5403 I appreciate your comment, nes. But all I said was it shared some DNA (such as a similar silent shafted engine). I did see the 1st gen magnas at the time too. The BMW 7 mention was only my personal impression at the time, nothing more.
The Gallan's primary competitors were the Toyota Cressid and Nissan Maxim. I think JD forgot the Mazda 92, by the only other automaker trying to compete with Mitsubishi when it came to gadgets. I always liked the styling on these cars, so much more sleek and advanced than its Japanese competitors from the day. To know that Mitsubishi lost the plot over the next decade or two is really sad, they made some quite decent and unique cars trying to carve out a niche for the brand. What is their niche now? The gadgets on this Gallant were hit or miss, but satellite radio controls on the steering wheel are standard on almost 100% of new cars in 2021!
nice car, I havent seen one around in like 15 years, I always felt they should've been more successful, did the later years of this generation come with a V6?
My aunt used to have a 2000 Galant ES 2.4i in bodega beige since new until it hit around 400,000 miles on the odometer. Had oil leakage and battery problems plus faulty gas cap and trunk releases, along with a cracked dashboard that's too cheap. Rear seat is cramped for adults.
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Oh those overengineered mid 80s spaceship Japanese cars. I love them all!
A friend had one of these in college. We called it the "Go-go-gadget mobile."
LOL
The Gadgetmobile wasn’t a Galant, for Gadget’s car looked like the Plymouth Sapporo.
@@rockolutheran $12k isn't really that expensive, even in 1986
Those "pod" controls on the steering column while he's moving it @ 1:47. So much cheap 1980s scratchy grey plastic. I'm glad this era passed quickly.
@@Matt_Dagostino Yeah, I just did an inflation calculator. 12K in 1986 = 28K today. Not an expensive car.
I miss what Mitsubishi used to be. They were pretty much a Japanese Citroen. I know of at least one of these still driving around, owned by an elderly barber shop owner who I've been pestering to sell for years to no avail....The thing is mint. It's a shame that these were auto only in the US....the transmissions in these were a major weak spot.
A Japanese Citroen? Is that supposed to be a compliment? Have you ever worked on a Citroen? LOL!
@@barryervin8536 It's fairly obvious that I wasn't referring to serviceability when I made the comparison. I was talking about their quirkiness and character.
They were a Citroen but with added reliability.
Sadly the thing that makes Mitsubishi Motors unique as a Japanese Citroën is what doomed their company. Their over-excessive spending on the engineering and the research and development is too much that they are losing money for every brilliant car they sell. The Mitsubishi GTO (3000 GT in the US) is probably one of their most expensive over-engineered car in the 1990's. But at that time they are already had poor sales in the US. By the time the 1990's Asian financial crisis hit Japan, Mitsubishi Motors was hit very hard. Add to that their parent corporation's ancient methods of Japanese company management of being a Zaibatsu, thus spelled chaos in their corporation, shutting down a lot of Mitsubishi divisions that are not profitable. Therefore we can see a foreseeable doom in the future of Mitsubishi Motors. I hope that the management of Renault - Nissan will help Mitsubishi Motors be revived.
@@B3Quattro innovation
Just baught an '89 last week for a 2nd car, and love it! So many gadgets and everything works! All the buttons and lights, sunroof, cold a.c.
Thing is mint
Japanese quality!
Make a video!
Joseph Tomaino Did it belong to a barber shop owner?
That sounds like an automotive miracle, but maybe that is because my mom and our friends had a 1985 or 1986 Maxima and those cars were a real pain.
Some of these 80's cars are just loaded with technology, technology that has found itself right back into production cars in the 2010s
k S that digital control sucked. It was slow with small buttons and malfunctioned often.
So the 80s are like today, everyone bitching about how complex cars are.
@@thirdstar9255 Tell the truth shame them devils, with that sickness.
Alot of the 1980s stuff was very gimmicky thought and did no noticeable difference. I.e the Nissan sedan suspension switch. And the digital displays u
yeah without that 80's look tho . its not that crt display
I owned a 1987, got it with a 5 speed manual (first year offered). Great car, super reliable... Drove x-country several times. Miss the ole girl 🚗❤️😢
I bought an 87 brand new and had it for 13 years and put 200k miles on it. 5 speed manual had no problems, super smooth clutch. Very reliable car. Aside from regular maintenance it needed the air suspension motor replaced once and the original stereo went out and I replaced it with an original that was used from the junk yard because it was that good of a stereo and you had the controls on the steering wheel for it. That mute button came in handy at times. Overall a great value! However, I would not touch a Mitsu product now given what's happened to the company.
It's a Mitsubishi Magna but with different tall lights. They looked ahead of their time and were pretty well made too. They were popular in Australia for a long time.
Yes the Australian Magna was a widened Galant and the wagon was developed in Australia. All cars built had the 4G54 Astron II engine (2555cc = 2.6L) with either Carburettor or fuel injection, manual and auto transmissions. The TP Magna Elite was a good example with it's two tone finish, digital dash, velour interior and so much more.
"You should be able to get a manual transmission if you want one." Copy and paste this into every car review today.
Nobody cares about manual transmission.
As do I.
not for the 17 people who would buy them.....
No one buys manuals, including all the people on comment sections asking for manuals, you dont buy them either.
I mean Honda offers a manual on both engines on the current Accords
but like 5 people have ever bought one
Steering mounted radio controls, different suspension settings at the push of a button. There was no need for a Delorean to experience things like this in 1985.
Mitsubishi Motors Australia assembled a widened version of this car called the Magna which sold well as a large family car for five years. They also brought out a wagon version. They didn't have all these fancy toys though. The ride was excellent like a limo at an affordable price.
I'm a simple man. I see a new retro review and I immediately click.
Damn, that was a sophisticated car for its day. Alas, lots to break too...
Ah the things they did with steering wheels before airbags.
Yeah. People used to hit their heads directly to them before.
@@Kyntteri yea those were the days. People had to use seatbelts! Not $800 f-ing airbags!
@@mrpoohbearlvr I dare you to try that airbag without seatbelt.
@@mrpoohbearlvr Cant tell if you were joking or not
2:15 John: MITSUBISHI ONLY FORGOT THE READOUT FOR OIL PRESSURE! LOL
You know it was coming lol
That's OK. I can't handle anymore pressure anyway.
My first car was a 1998 Galant. Good looking car and comfortable. Sold it with nearly 300k km with no major issues. I miss the days when Mitsubishi was a cool brand. I really don’t know how they keep in business these days. I rarely see a new Mitsubishi.
Nobody knew these cars can give 1 mil. km! Me also! :D
I would feel upset and heartbroken if Mitsubishi revive the Galant nameplate for a crossover SUV.
Kevron Harris lol they might
The eclipse lol
@@oliverdelgado6952 I agree
I'm surprised they haven't.
chaseman94, the only way Mitsubishi would do if they replaced the Outlander name since it is sized just about the same with the last gen Galant (they made the 2-row Endeavor crossover based on that very platform, shared with today's 3-row Dodge Journey).
My family had one of these purchased new in 1986. I took my driver's test in this car when i was 16. Everyone else in our neighborhood had Accords, Camrys or Audis and Peugot's if they were a little fancier, but we were the only ones with this car. I liked that it was so unique and my sister and I loved the reclining rear seat on car trips.
In Australia we had a version of this called a Magna which had a 2.6 motor with choice of auto or 5 spd.manual transmissions and sedan and wagon versions. While similar in appearance, the Magna was 2.6 inches wider than the Galant.
The best part of that car, IMO is that 80s Japanese futuristic dash and steering wheel!! So retro cool!
I always thought these were the best looking Galants Mitsubishi ever offered. They were their flagship and really quite stunning. They gave the Toyota Cressida and Nissan Maxima a run for the money but since they only offered a 4 cylinder, most bought the rivals instead. Also, you never seem to see these cars on the road or even for sale anywhere. Mitsubishi obviously didn't sell many of them and 30 + years later, they are almost all gone. Great video.
The Sigma was the Maxima counterpart.
@@merqury5 Mitsubishi added the sigma name to the Galant starting in 1988. Before that, it was just the Galant.
@@klwthe3rd one of us must have it wrong. Here in europe the galant and the sigma are two different sizes of car. The galant has never been equivalent to a maxima here, it would counterpart the nissan p11 Primera here. The car in the video looks to be too small for being a sigma, but I could be fooled by the format. But I had a 87 galant for years and it looks like one to me.
@@merqury5 Were both are not wrong. You should know that European models can be quite different than the models sold here in the United States. I'm not familiar on what went on in Europe at the time, but here, the Galant came out in 1985. In 1988 the name was changed to the Galant Sigma as the car increased in size. After sometime, they dropped the Sigma name and went back to just using Galant only.
@@klwthe3rd cool! I think we are approaching something. Here. Id love to have one again some day. The sigma here had a 3.0L engine that you could balance a coin on while it ran.
Always liked these retro reviews. To see the camera quality back then brings back memories.
I love Retro Reviews, i watch every days since september 2009
My dad used to own a 1988 Mitsubishi V3000 similar to this but with the 6G72 V6. they were marketed as a Falcon/Commodore alternative.
I never noticed how much this car looks like it was designed by the french. Its got a Japanese Citroen/Renault/Peugeot vibe to it.
Specify where - New Zealand :)
Having a laugh at some of the replies. These were also made in Australia as the Mitsubishi Magna. A slightly wider body version of the Japanese design. They had absolutely nothing to do with Citroen. In later updated models they were exported to the US as the Australian made Diamanté. In 1985 it was released in a sedan only in 4 models. In 1986 a wagon was added to the range also in the four models. The wagon was so popular it was exported to its home country Japan. The Magna won several awards in Australia. The Magna/Diamanté continued in many updated models. Many were exported to the US and many other countries around the world until 2005 when it was replaced with the American designed Galant know in Australia as a 380. 38 standing for the 3.8 ltr engine. The design being American was very bland by Australian standards and although it was rated as the best car ever built in Australia and won many awards for safety, performance and fuel economy sales were slow. The factory closed in 2008 ending Mitsubishi's production in Australia.
I bought a 1985 gray like this test car for my wife. The $600 electronic suspension was a lot more than that when it came time to fix broken parts, but the ride was superb. After it was totalled, we got the Sigma version. Suspension costs remained the same.
That tester was wearing Ponys. Haven't seen those in years!
Wr in highschool those were my favorite tennis shoes. Recently I found out here in LA CA they're available at Walmart.
I saw that too haha
They should make a comeback
Sometimes they have PONYs at ROSS
I love the 1980s mocha latte beige color!!!!
Mitsubishi New Zealand actually painted their 5th gen Galants (called the Sigma there) in a slightly more purply brown colour and called it 'Cappuccino'. I miss mine!
I'd go for the in-studio car's maroon though, just to get the maroon plastics/beige cloth two-tone interior.
@@nlpnt Mine was brown over gold two tone exterior with 5 shades of faded brown interior. But I switched out the interior for a maroon interior just to add another 80's-tastic colour.
So THAT's what that color was! I had one of these as a teenager, same color as in the video and neither me nor my friends could ever figure out what it should be called. They had a slight amount of pearl-type shine in that color, almost as if it had microscopic glitter flakes embedded. I only say pearl because it's a little similar to some Lexus models I've had but obviously not as good and like 20 years prior. If you caught this thing in the sun just right you saw a pink-ish brown slightly glittery color - I fool you not. I added a manual switch to the wiring when I was changing stereo head units out and I basically could turn off ALL exterior lights except for the headlamps. This was useful at times during the night ;)
@@kinkane5566 I had an '87 model passed down from my parents who bought it new. That color was called Dakota Sand. To this day I've never driven a car as quiet as that one. As a new driver I wanted to install an amp and subs. I'll never forget trying to run the wires. The sound deadening material had to be over an inch thick! It was amazing. The car was like a vault.
A respectable quarter mile time of 18.5 sec at 70 mph. Oh dear Lord. :)
My Dad had the 1989 version , 2ltr 102Hp . Great car !! Lots of room in the rear .
Different car altogether.Same name though
E Meyer Yea . Very well built .
"195/60/15 high performance tires" - lol
My mid 80's Chevy S-10 had 14's lol Things have definitely changed!
Sometimes I wish things hadn't, as the owner of an ancient Honda it's no fun looking for new 13" tires.
@@nightmathzombieethanNo fun paying for 19's either.Nor the harsher ride because of the narrow hard sidewall
@@nightmathzombieethan same story when I had my civic wagon, but I did find some performance 185/60/13 federal tires , they had good grip on 38 PSI and it lowered the car about an inch . I also had koni str.t shocks so the car sat low enough for fun cornering but not too low that it would scrape unless you had 2-3 people sitting in the back
Heck, my Ford festiva had 12 inch rims!
My 92 GTI 16v handles like its on Rails with 195/50/15’s. I am not down with the 17’s and up people are putting on cars.
My family had a early 90's Galant in the 2000's.
That was by far the best compact car of it's day hands down, back when Mitsubishi actually made an effort doing cars unlike now
i had one these as a company car from june of 85 to july of 87 when i left the company. as i recall my boss took it after i had it, and drove it well into the 90s. these were really well built. i remember bein amazed at all the gadgets. before that i had an old volkswagon bug and this thing was like a damn space ship in comparison!!
01:38 At first, I really thought he was trying to break the back seat! It looked like destructive testing!
I had one of these, it was definitely strange. You could change the angle of the back seat by pulling some lever and the area where distance changed was somewhat like an accordion. I got a bobble-head Taco Bell dog and crammed it in the middle between the top of the back seat and the back horizontal area. It was greatness. As I drove around, the Taco Bell dog was bobbing its head.
Motorweek famously did exaggerated crap in their tests, such as the way they ram the gear shift back and forth through its positions or the way they carelessly load luggage into a trunk, dragging the suitcase across the bumper and weatherstripping to drive home their point that lift-over is high. It was annoying to me back then. Now, I find it amusing how stupid they looked doing those things.
Bought one used in 1990. The velour seats were so comfortable, especially the rear seats 🙃 and it rode like a Japanese luxo barge.
Gee, I always thought it was pronounced GalanT....
Me too! Have I been pronouncing it wrong for all these years, or does John Davis not know there's a T at the end?
@@briansmith8361 I think there was some confusion back then as Mitsubishi had French/Italian sounding names without harsh consonant ends. Cordia, Tredia, Montero, Mirage, ....Galan(t)?. Was the T supposed to be silent? I do remember later Galant commercials where they say Galant with the T.
More to the topic- I only ever saw two of these cars in the flesh, which is surprising considering how well they liked the car in this review. I guess they were expensive for a Mitsubishi. The Toyota Cressida had the wonderful inline 6 and "traditional" rear drive, which would have swayed many buyers wanting a cruiser without the sport/manual.
This review must have been produced before Mitsubishi's U.S. marketing determined the preferred pronunciation. When in doubt, use the french pronunciation for a french word.
@@vossler360 But isn't it better to butcher the French word just to piss off the French anyway?
I’ve grown up pronouncing it with a “T.” My mother, who leased three Galants between 1998 and 2008, pronounced it as such, too. I’ve never heard it pronounced as “Galan.”
I wish MW would use higher-quality de-interlacing on these videos. Then there would be fewer jaggies on diagonal lines.
Huh I didnt think I'd find you here
Agreed, though I'm glad to see they are oversampling to 1080p instead of going with 480p that so many others use when they upload vintage SD video. (is it that much more effort to go with 1080p?) As well as keeping 4:3 aspect ratio instead of zooming in to fill 16:9. (i.e. JustPlanes) I don't know what RUclips does, but there must be various quality settings for 480p since it seems all over the map (when using 480p) if it's going to look just ok or worse.
Australia got a wagon and it was also wider and longer, was called the magna.
Different chassis and engine, but derived from this. Plus the wagon arrived only from 1987 (MY88).
@@nessuno5403 Wasn't it based off this and Mitsubishi Australia just extended and widened the chassis. Apparently it shared mostly the same tooling from the galant.
@@REPOMAN24722 the only tooling shared was for the doors, guards and pillars so it was a significantly different derivate chassis. It also had to be strengthened.
@@nessuno5403 I guess if you could call it a "new" car, I drive an Octavia, golf chassis just extended, it's pretty much a golf, I just call it a modified golf.
@@nessuno5403 Oz eng was 4G54 Astron 2.6, U.S. eng was 4G64 Siriius 2.4, only marginally better. Same money pit transmissions.
I live in New Zealand where this car was locally assembled and called the Mitsubishi Sigma with a 1.8 or 2.0 litre engine (including turbocharged) between 1984 and 1988. In 1988 NZ became the only country where they did drop in a 3 litre V6 and called it a Mitsubishi V3000 in both manual and automatic versions. In 1990 they grafted the more curved front of a Mitsubishi Eterna onto the V3000 as a facelift. It was a good looking (and fast) vehicle! We were also able to avoid those sealed beam headlights!!
Up until 1983 all U.S. bound vehicles had to use the sealed beam headlights, ether round or rectangular, they came in standard sizes. Then in 1984, composite headlights started to appear. So it wasn't a styling choice to have those instead of composite. Though this 86' Mitsubishi has sealed beam, I suspect they had not made a face-lift composite version for the U.S. market yet. Though looking at google pics, it seems the Japanese version also had sealed beam at least up though 1986 before the sixth generation redesign in 1987.
It's not a Sigma, it's a Magna.
@@marcusdamberger My mum had a top of the range 1986 Sigma SE (digital dash etc) and those had one piece fully glassed over aero headlights. I thought sealed beam were individual lights that weren't glassed over. My bad
@@lynx318therealone Nope. The Magna was a wide bodied version of the Sigma with a 2.6 litre engine. They were only built in Australia for the Australian market in both sedan and wagon models (1985-1991). The Magna wagon was sold in NZ along side the Sigma then the V3000 as the 84-88 Sigma/Galant was never made as a wagon.
That's a surprisingly great looking car and has a great amount of features and tech. I like it!
Do you like the 0-60 of 13 seconds. 110 hp and sub 30mpg??
Kevin Allen I didn’t say that. I like the looks, features and the tech on it.
@@NeighborhoodCarReviews from an 80s perspective, right? Because the tech in my 2019 Corolla hatch makes the tech in that car look like stone carvings in a cave!
Kevin Allen Oh, of course! 30 years ago, this was considered technologically well equipped. Today, even the most basic cars have all that and more. I just like seeing how everything was.
Mitsu's 2.4 four pot made as much horsepower as my 3.8 GM pushrod did in 1986. Goes to show that even then, there was a replacement for displacement.
yeah but the 3.8 is bulletproof and had way more torque which is what really matters in real life driving
@@SearchEast2069 true. Got 55k original miles on mine and it hasn't let me down in 32+ years. Torque is a fairly respectable 190ft.lbs
Don't get me wrong, it's slow, and the 3 speed is made of glass, but it keeps on chugging knock on wood
The SFI FWD 3.8 made 150
@@moejr1974 That was in 1987. 1986 was the last year of the Gbody and still had the old 2bbl carburettor setup
@@manfromnantucket9544 I am talking FWD cars. The SFI 3.8 came in the 85 Electra that was FWD
A wide body version was designed and built by Mitsubishi australia which was named the Magna, of which later generations were imported into the USA as the Diamante
And could come in wagon starting from the 1987 TN model. The only engine option was the 2.6L Astron II. The narrow body Japanese and US models could have a 3.0L V6.
But the Australian version was stripped of a lot of features (especially electronics) because it had to compete on price and was therefore not in the luxury category (although the higher models SE and Elite were well equipped relative to their rivals)
nes suno I had a Magna Elite and it was well equipped. But it's no JDM Sirius DASH Eterna hard top!
I love Mitsubishi prior to the 2000’s they made some awesome cars, well ahead of they’re time. While we lived in Germany in the 90’s my dad almost bought one of these in that same brown color but for whatever reason the deal fell through and he bought a BMW 316i instead.
A friend at work had one and let me borrow it for an errand a couple times. It was Black with a Midnight Blue interior and looked so amazing with those wheels shined up. I loved driving it and would love to find one in decent condition!
Not exactly what I'd call a competitor to the V6 powered Cressida and Maxima, but still a nice car, although rare. That test car had some paint work done on the driver side front. It didn't quite match up.
As a former Mitsubishi owner, I ca attest that their factory paint jobs always had poor matches between materials. Both my Galants (2001 & 2003) had front and rear bumpers that didn’t match the body. The Diamanté I had (2002) was built in Australia and was better matched.
I would love to collect all of the old Japanese cars. This would be one of them. Mitsubishi always tried to give you more for the money. Though they're not as good as their other Japanese competitors they were always very innovative at Mitsubishi
Who told John Davis the "T" at the end of "Galant" is silent?
Maybe the badge was missing the "T" on their test car.
Dan McCarthy RENAULT ...
That's what the Mitsubishi rep. called it at the press release.
I agree. In Europe we say it with a T.
The “T” in Galant is NOT SILENT.
Next Up On Retro Review 1991 Toyota Previa
You must've watched Hoovie??
Evan Ganske Yes
My fav minivan ever!!! Please do it!!!
Now to spend the rest of my life looking for one on Craigslist.
:D I had this one. Maybe in Europe You will have lot's of luck. For example i saw Galant from 1993 for 400€ for sale this week. But as You can see from vide, brakes are not well. Maybe because not heavy motor on them. I have also this experience of little longer braking distance.
None left, all scrapped hopefully.
@@romanhanajik3185 is in in in in the
I own a 86 model as shown here with a manual and an 89 GTi High Performance model. Great cars. In Europe, the 87-93 generation is still available, but only as mid-range model. The 84-87 are ultra rare as well.
One youtuber had the last one in existence
Wow, Motorweek was way off that time. The Galant was never in the Toyota Cressida/Nissan Maxima segment. Those were rear wheel drive V6 luxury cars. The Galant was a 4 cylinder compact in the Accord/Camry segment with a bit more feature content to differentiate itself.
The Nissan Maxima went FWD in 1985.
Brutal steering wheel. No place to rest your hands at 3 & 9 o'clock.
Tried it? Thought so
I love those Japanese interiors!
I saw this and thought why does that car look so skinny? The then penny dropped, let me explain. Chrysler Australia began assembling Mitsubishi Galants in 1971 marketed first as a Valiant Galant then it became the Chrysler Galant and was produced through four different model changes until 1977. The GA, GB, GC and GD. They were popular and gained a good reputation for reliability. So 1977 brought along it's replacement. It was another Mitsubishi, called the Chrysler Sigma assembled here by Chrysler Australia and it was such an enormous hit that Chrysler sometimes had trouble keeping up with demand. Fast forward to 1980 and the entire manufacturing operation of Chrysler Australia was sold to Mitsubishi. The Sigma continued (obviously badged as a Mitsubishi) but it's replacement was on the horizon. Mitsubishi Australia looked at it and obviously figured that it would not cut it against what Ford and Holden (GM) had on offer. They went radical and spliced the body to add 2.5" or 65 millimeteres to its width, equipped it with a 2.6 litre four cylinder engine and in 1985 the Mitsubishi Magna was born. It was an instant hit and took the market by storm and in a very short time it was the third best seller. As a footnote though, I would like to add that a lot of the engineers behind this ground breaking car were former Chrysler Australia engineers.
Wow! So much tech for such an old car. Really like that suspension system.
That's the ill shit about a lot of older cars, all the neat, unique and at times surprisingly advanced for the day they were...old cars rule💪
We didn't get that adjustable suspension in Australia, but it looks like the Subaru setup in the Leone wagons of the time, the replacement strut price was so exorbitant, manufacturers were doing conversion standard struts to replace them.
that car definitely screams 1986 with its futuristic angular interior and same with the exterior, I can hear Michael Jackson playing on that premium stereo now...
Love how thin the A pillars are, ahh when you could see out the front of the vehicle without any blind spots. Never mind about rollover protection. ;)
I'd put a casette tape in which has the Knight Rider opening theme.
My Dad had a '85 Galant. There were issues with the 4 speed automatic. He traded it in for an '87 Starion automatic (he was 78. A boy racer at heart).
The Starion went for $18K.
With the Galant trade in and some sort of added discount he paid $6000.
My Dad thought he got taken for a ride until I pointed out that the '87 Mitsubishi Mirage (5 speed non turbo) I had recently purchased was $9K and that NO he wasn't taken for a ride.
I vaguely remember this car. I believe my band teacher had one of these because that steering wheel and dash is giving me some serious nostalgia.
Very underrated car.
Wow! Look at that steering column!
I have seen similar steering colums in other retro reviews. They seem to end up in Japanese cars that weren't from Nissan, Toyota, or Honda.
Actually a very nice car for 1986 compared to what else was out there. I always liked the Starion better.
Tony Chavez the new Taurus lx would have posed a major threat on sales, as a price leader, and in some cases, a better performer as well
The pods on the steering column are pretty cool.
I used to love these back then, reminded me of the Cressida, and like the idea where the suspension would raise.
This model of Galant was not sold in the Philippines as it sold the previous generation instead as the same as 1979-83 Lancer.
About 20 years ago I had a slightly modified 1991 MR2 turbo and got smoked from a red light by a Galant VR4 like I was going in reverse. I found out some time later the car I lost to was well known and ran high 11’s in the qtr mile. Still prob my worst wood shed beating to this day.
Mitsubishi Is a legend of its own.Feels sad why it didn't make a big mark of its own in North America so far.
When 15" tires were high performance :)
The Car Crazy Guy, figure that when Nissan introduced the Murano mid sized crossover in '02 with standard 18" wheels (very commonplace today in the category) that was "something to stare in awe"...
ماشاء الله عليها وهي تجري ... ذكريات طفولتي في هذه السيارة الرائعة .
Mitsubishi Diamante please!
My childhood friend’s mother had one that hit 1 million miles.
Had one of these in new zealand. We call them sigma and I had a gsr x version which was turbo. Sohc 2ltr turbo. 4g63 bottom end and no intercooler.
This generation of the Galant sold well in Europe too. The GLS/GLX were much the same as the car in the video, but there was also a GL with a more spartan interior. Ofcourse most were manual. I liked the smooth flowing lines, the comfy ride, and the thrummy sound from the engine. On paper not that much power, but in normal driving a fine performer. Not fuel injected but it did start and run like one, flawless starting and idling. The next generation seemed much less ambitious, more trying to match watch the European manufacturers were doing.
Quality, quiet ride, 4-passenger comfort, convenience, standard equipment, good looks.... Ahhh Mitsubishi how you have fallen, please come back as you used to be.
I love 70s & 80s Mitsubishi cars...
We've had a few Mitsubishis in my family over the decades and I didn't even know the Galant has been around this long in the US! I was thinking it came out with what I guess is the generation after this one.
My aunt used to have a 2000 Galant ES 2.4i in bodega beige since new until it hit around 400,000 miles on the odometer. Had oil leakage and battery problems plus faulty gas cap and trunk releases, along with a cracked dashboard that's too cheap. Rear seat is cramped for adults.
me too!!!
My guess is that this early generation Galant didn't sell well in the US.
I used to have a 1995 it was my 2nd most favorite car I ever owned.
There was a station wagon version of these, sold as the Mitsubishi Magna in Australia, nice design.
My dad had a sedan with manual trans here in Europe back in the day.
i have NEVER seen this car in person .. nobody kept these?? smj
It's a Mitsubishi, they didn't last long.
They rusted away like all 80/90s Japanese cars.
@@albear972 Mitsubishis of the 1980s were very different than Mitsubishis of today. They were loaded with premium electronic gadgets for the day and generally had more tech than rivals from Toyota and Nissan. Unfortunately they had not got to grips with rust, and these cars rotted away faster than most comtemporary cars from the era, which combined with their low sales volume is why they were a rare sight by the early 1990s. Later Galants would sell better, especially when they started to be built in the USA, but those cars were more conventional and didn't have the charm or technical sophistication of the cars from a decade before. We might not have known it then, but that was the beginning of Mitsubishi's big downfall.
In many ways, this Galant was ahead of its time and made a compelling choice versus traditional segment leaders. Much as Mitsubishi was later known for turning a basic compact car into the EVO, in the 1980s all Mitsubishis were known to be on the forefront of in-car technology. Even their basic econoboxes led the way with sophisticated engines and more than the usual amount of features. They may not have been as reliable as Toyota, as all-around competent as Honda, or have the sales of Datsun/Nissan, but these were decent cars loaded with features you never knew you wanted. That drove their price higher than rivals, thus why fewer were sold.
albear972 I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of these in person.
Forgot to mention Mazda in your spiel but i agree w your assessment.
Interesting that it's an '86 model with no third brake light.
Must have been an early production run - journalist test car, or something
You're totally right! Like I said before in another comment 1986 cars were most modern then. A year before they seemed ancient meaning most 85 and older models. ( no third brake lights, old carbed engines, older styling ect)
Good eye. Must have been a super early 1986 model, or a 1985 leftover.
This car did not brake well. You can see in test. So wee didn't need the extra light. :D
Basically what the other people have said, this must've been an early run model, I had an 86 and it had a third brake light for certain.
I' m sitting here on a Thursday night. That was when Motorweek ran on PBS in Baltimore. In '86, I couldn't decide whether to watch Motorweek or The Cosby Show! (2/6/20)
Holy smokes, this 14+ grand car costs the equivalent of 33 1/2 grand in today's money.
Cheap when you consider what a base model midsize sedan costs today. And how little you get
@@blackmount1Let's see, you get 8 air bags, anti-lock brakes, adaptive cruise control, and wayyyy many other goodies to mention.
albear972, today those U$33.5K would buy you a lesser equipped V6 Camry or a T-2.0L Accord, so the Galant was a wee bit expensive against the competition (being compared and almost priced with the larger RWD Cressida, but competing with the FWD Camry and the smaller compact Altima of the era), something Mitsubishi would try to correct with the (3.0L) V6 Diamante.
You guys have high prices. We just bought a new Forester Premium with CVT and Giant Sunroof new for $25,800. People need to Negotiate
djkenny, not same category, Bub... You're comparing a COMPACT CROSSOVER with the regular (non-turbo) version of the large I4. I'm talking about upline (250+hp) MIDSIZED SEDANS.
Try an XT (Turbo) Forester and check how much more that one cost, and that's still a compact (Subaru makes two larger crossovers, the midsized 2-row Outback and fullsized 3-row Ascent, sized and priced above the Forester).
This technology was way ahead of its time.
That obsession for oil pressure gauges back then. They complaint about their absence in all videos.
Never drove a Galant, but did drive the 2nd gen Australian Magna years back, which shares some DNA. It had the 2.6 Astron engine with a manual transmission. Although not a "cool" car by most locals standards, it had a few interesting innovations that some cars today still don't all have. Among other things, it had a seamless laser welded roofline and 180 degree folded metal joints in the rear wheel arches (most only fold 90 degrees, which catches crud and promotes rust). The car was the size of a crown vic, but was so light and stiff that you soon forgot how big it was. If I didn't know any better, I'd say Mitsubishi had their sights on the BMW-7 of the day. Even the styling hinted at it. It also had one of the most precise cable shift linkages I'd ever laid a hand on.
The second generation Magna has nothing to do with this to the extent you say. That was a hybrid of Sigma and Diamante, the latter being benchmarked against the BMW 5 Series. Your facts are twisted.
@@nessuno5403 Yes it did!!
Corrected to say "not to the extent that" David says - especially the BMW 7 series benchmarking claim :)
@@nessuno5403 I appreciate your comment, nes. But all I said was it shared some DNA (such as a similar silent shafted engine). I did see the 1st gen magnas at the time too. The BMW 7 mention was only my personal impression at the time, nothing more.
@@grndiesel all good :)
Oh... nostalgic ❤ loved that car.
Back when Mitsubishi loved to have gadgets on their cars.
Mocha latte beige color purchased one in 1986 @ Keyes Mitsubishi Van Nuys CA
Thank's for this videos! 👍🏻
The Gallan's primary competitors were the Toyota Cressid and Nissan Maxim. I think JD forgot the Mazda 92, by the only other automaker trying to compete with Mitsubishi when it came to gadgets. I always liked the styling on these cars, so much more sleek and advanced than its Japanese competitors from the day. To know that Mitsubishi lost the plot over the next decade or two is really sad, they made some quite decent and unique cars trying to carve out a niche for the brand. What is their niche now?
The gadgets on this Gallant were hit or miss, but satellite radio controls on the steering wheel are standard on almost 100% of new cars in 2021!
Japan peaked in the 80's. It was one of the richest, technologically developed country on the planet.
His pronunciation of 'Galant' as 'Galań' is driving me nuts. I've never heard it pronounced that way.
Have you ever heard him say Camry in a retro review?? Even worse.
Hoping there's an '87 Mitsubishi Cordia Turbo retro review in the near future 🔮
nice car, I havent seen one around in like 15 years, I always felt they should've been more successful, did the later years of this generation come with a V6?
Man would I love to find one of these to have with my Starion and 3000GT VR4
Starion...still looks bad ass after all these years. Have always wanted one.
my grandfather had one of these, but with a digital dash!
This lovely to see again!
I owned the gsr-x turbo model back in the late 90s lol
The Australian version was called a Magna... It had a 2.6 litre 4 cylinder and was available in a manual and a station wagon.
TN/TP Magne Elante was a great car, especially with the Manual. The autos were okay.
Love my 2003 Galant!!
My aunt used to have a 2000 Galant ES 2.4i in bodega beige since new until it hit around 400,000 miles on the odometer. Had oil leakage and battery problems plus faulty gas cap and trunk releases, along with a cracked dashboard that's too cheap. Rear seat is cramped for adults.
This car does NOT need a manual transmission; the automatic transmission works well. Most American drivers drive automatics!
The Mitsubishi Galant or in John Davis speak... Galán. It’s like when he wanted the Camry to be a Camray.
Camry is crap today; this Galant (with a “T”) was underrated for what it was. I’d own a Galant over a Camry all day long.
During the 80s and 90s, and new technological feature was the buzz of the car scene.
I had one of these back in ‘99. Broke down every month that I had it.
That body roll through the slalom...😮😮