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Street Sighting ~ Mitsubishi FTO

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Other than the occasional grid appearance in Gran Turismo 4 the Mitsubishi FTO hasn't successfully steered my attention in its direction until now. And after a little research I'm glad it did - even if I find them ugly. This one in particular, whilst still no looker hides its awkward body lines with black paint. As prefaced I knew nothing about these other than the front wheel drive layout which turns out has a 'front mid-engined' V6 some even equipped with MIVEC . I'm pretty chimp-spec so just in case you're like me here is a diagram of 'front mid-engine' layout; Anyway, I do have some experience with MIVEC motors, having driven the absolute drivers car that is the Mitsubishi Grandis for a small partition of my p-plates. Apologies, getting distracted. But final remark, the Grandis is a great car that deserves its own post/review at some point. Back to the FTO... I couldn't find the stats but the FTO never really got the Australian delivered tre...