Used Car Buyer's Guide: Mitsubishi 3000GT VR-4 - Car Throttle
The 3000GT VR-4 is a sign of both what's right and what's terminally wrong with the automotive industry. Which is remarkable, because they haven't made one since, oh - 2000. US imports ceased in 1999, meaning the freshest of 3000GT's are more than a decade old at this point, so the relevance of the VR-4 is questionable. The 3000GT (marketed in Japan and other countries as the GTO, which you know wouldn't have gone over well here) was Mitsubishi's flagship halo car, a rolling testbed to show just what the company could do. It replaced the ancient (but awesome)... Based on a shortened Diamante platform, the 3000GT used a transverse-mounted 3. 0L 24v V6 to drive the front wheels in base form. 222bhp wasn't too shabby (exactly on par with the also new-for-1990 Nissan 300ZX) but the front-wheel-drive 3000GT wasn't the one anyone (besides poseurs) cared about. 0L engine gained a pair of turbochargers and intercoolers, a transfer case and two more driven wheels at the back, four-wheel-steering, active aerodynamics, ECS (Electronically Controlled Suspension), and even a variable-noise exhaust system which... The monster twin-turbo engine sent 300bhp and 306lb-ft of torque to all four wheels via a five-speed manual gearbox. It was a small 2-door coupe with four wheel drive and a twin-turbo 300bhp engine. Source: www.carthrottle.com
