New Galant Fortis reveiled in Japan

[rees]

ritch mate , believe me i like em alot , like i said it looks mature
when you see them on the motorway they look like they belong there , natural cruisers .

but anyway a compliment that its not an evo x? how does tha work then?

[rees]

http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/new-pr...spx?model=1674
lancer prices

http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/new-pr...spx?model=1778
evo prices


cant help but feel am missing the point here mate

[bradc]

Phil is right, there has never been a hatch and an estate in one generation of Galant. Also if you look at Lancer wagons over the years, they have always had to serve two generations, ie the EVO 1-3 shape Lancer wagon survived until 2002! The current shape Lancer wagon which is still available here in NZ (not sure about the UK) has been on the market since 2002 and will continue until just before the entirely new generation of Lancer comes out, which I'm guessing will be around 2013.

[thfelipeth]

I doubt very much there'll be an estate / wagon - proof is in the fact there's a hatchback to compliment the saloon.

Back in the late 80s / 90s when in the UK there was a 4th generation Galant / Sigma saloon, there was an estate too - no hatchback.

Once the 6th generation came along with saloon and hatch version, the estate was dropped.

Soon into the Galant hatchback's production run, Mitsubishi stopped producting the Sigma estate as there was a galant hatchback. The Sigma saloon was made in Japan and the estate in Australia, like the 4th generation was, an the estate badged for a time as a Lonsdale Galant / Sigma.

That continued in saloon and hatch versions on the 7G. Then the hatch was dropped in the 8G when the estate was reintroduced.

coool, a bit of a history lesson. good to know cheers.

[ritch_w]

i'm bored now....

[bradc]

Of the car?

[N9nebar]

But that's like saying folk with the later standard 8G Galant models with the VR4 bodykit, that was slapped on the run-out models (me!), have people looking at their car and saying "look a VR4.... oh no it's just a Galant... never mind."

Never had anyone say that to me!

Same with my viento looks a bit like a vr4 but says gdi on the back, intelligent people will notice the differences but the scum that stole mine didn't...... it was raced against a skyline and i reckon it stood a chance cause the skyline had no turbo . ignorant scum can't even nick a fast car , idiots.
Anyway nice lookin lancer/galant fortis. in ireland the standard petrol engine is 1.5 !!! has all the bodykit but absolutly no go underneath

[bradc]

Mate you hadn't even had yours all that long! What are the replacement plans?

[N9nebar]

i got a good deal on a 2004 toyota avensis, boring i know but its safe economical and reliable . so now i paying for 2 cars woohoo!