No it is not a bargain... for the same price 28k you can get a BUNCH of other cars that are light-yearsahead of the Galant RA in performance, design, and build quality (like an '09 Accord V6, a CC or even the new Fusion Sport)

This IS the future of the Galant:



Tell Mitsu to bring that one up, with SST, S-AWD and a good engine and we'll talk. Otherwise the Galant is following the Eclipse as really bad cars that lost their true spirit and that I sometimes wonder why people still buy 'em...

But to get back on topic, if the car says 93 then u should use 93... it's just 2.80 right now; take advantage of that price while it last

 

That concept Galant looks good. I remember reading a few blurbs about it and almost every "preview" of it, the writer said it looked ugly, bland or something else negative. I keep trying to set my Mitsu love aside to see what they're talking about, but it looks so good to me. I guess the automotive press will just continue the automatic hate they have for anything non-Evo from Mitsu.

 

Yeap pretty much... But I do agree with them sometimes... Is as if Mitsu put their best people at the Evo and left the other cars to their rookie engineers... They really need to step it up, cause no car company lives by selling ONE car out of their whole fleet... if u don't believe me ask GM's Hummer division

 

It deserves another look:

 

I concour. Overall, may not have the best performance/safety/inovation etc. But their models all tend to be visually attractive.

 

Here it looks like an Audi form the side. Not a bad thing at all.






Here it just looks sexy. Also is it me or does it look like it grew drastically in length.

 

Oh yea on the track it would be horrible but chip it, I/H/E and on the strip it'll do some good.

 

I saw that concept last year and hoped Mitsu would build it. That design will sell. In terms of bargain i think it is simply because you can easily get the Ralliart version for under $27K w/o rebates and also the Galants are strong *** cars no matter how unattractive they may look. As for its competition i can't tell u how many times my mother Accord has been in the service department (transmission, A/C, Airbag system, etc) and she bought it brand new. I won't even go into my sisters Altima. And with Mitsu u get a better warrenty.

 

You can't seriously be comparing Mitsu quality to Honda?? My Civic is an '06, has 85k on it, and has had oil changes and a set of front brake pads in it's service/maintenance history (and I know plenty of people with similar experiences). The reason Mitsu has a better warranty is because they need to use that as a tactic to sell cars, because the cars have a poor service reputation relative to other Japanese cars. This is typically only used by Korean companies and maybe some domestics lately. Honda's warranty is not as important to most shoppers because people know they'll probably never need it.

 

He is and he is serious. I've sold both. Mitsubishi makes good cars. A Civic is a great car and yeah they don't have much troubles, but once you get into heavier Hondas with V6s and automatics, things aren't always as rosy. I would take a Mitsubishi V6 with auto over any Honda V6 and bet money the Mitsu won't have any major issues but that the Honda would. Mind you, I am not dissing Honda. 4cyl auot or manual they are bulletproof. More complicated vehicles like the Ody van, no they are average to below average. However Honda has such a great PR machine you won't ever hear about it. Mitsu ofers a long warranty as a selling tool but also because they believe in their vehicles. IF they made ****ty vehicles it would bankrupt them in warranty coverage. They have been offering a 5 year 60K mile powertrain warranty looooong before any other company ever did. Now Honda and Toyota do too because its the industry standard and because of all the problems with engine sludge in Toyos and bad V6 auto trans in Hondas they had to do something to restore customer confidence. Honda for the longest time only had a 3/36 and that's it. Our finance managers sold lots of extended warranties to people buying their second third or fourth Honda who like you, would remember some 86hp Honda they used to own with roll up windows that lasted forever, but they realized that todays cars are a lot more complicated and require more to keep them going.

 

its better to get the premium fuel insteal of 89 octane
as maybe the car is tuned for premium fuel
u will risk damaging the car
if u plan u keep the car for long term
go for premium

 

Thank you. And to add on that my 03 OZ was pushing close to 90K miles and it never ever gave me any issues. The most i spent on it was $400 to do the whole trans/engine flush, brakes pads, belts, new cat, etc. I have a friend with another OZ like mine with 200K miles on it and that thing is still running strong. Mitsu have come along way my friend. As for not needing a Honda warrenty my mother's Accord A/C blew @ 40K. She has an 04 so 3/36 warrenty. $300 in total to fix. And the airbag system, well lets not talk about that.

 

haven't you heard about the tranny failures in the honda pilots? the tranny failure in honda odysseys? of course since they are using the same hardware, tranny failure in acura TL's, acura MDX's? Honda doesn't advertise the extended warranty, they sell it to you. of course, to escape scrutiny and bad reliability ratings, they issue TSB recalls to all the models and "silently" fix the bad ones=true story.

 

PS, I like the design of the new galant!

 

i like it a lot.