Cars for Sale Ireland Blog

by Mindy Tepy

The Colt Cleartec has become the newest model in a line of Mitsubishi cars which have been both elegant and cost-effective for everyone since 1962.

Giant tombstone fuel-guzzling cars are all well and good when you’re the president of some obscure rich nation and can afford to tarmac an area the size of Hull for your own turning circle. However for generations the standard household living in a buzzing city has been saving money while getting the best quality possible by driving the newest style of Colt.

As Mitsubishi’s first post-war passenger car, the Colt 600 made history when it was first made in Japan in 1962. It wasn’t long however until the in demand sleek and stylish car arrived on the shores of Europe, with the Colt 1200 and Colt 1400 wowing drivers in the early eighties. Before long everybody was queuing to get the opportunity to take a Colt test drive.

By the mid eighties the whole world became members of the cult of the Colt, with both 3-door and 5-door versions developed, with a top engine capacity of 1800cc. The designs sold steadily in Europe, but were extremely popular in Denmark, where they were one of the country’s best selling cars.

Various designs of Colt have gone under diverse names around the world, such as the Dodge, Plymouth and the perfectly bizarre Mirage Panther and Mirage Cyborg. Neither the Panther or Cyborg were created to be driven by any species of wild lion or futuristic metal man, though arguably a futuristic robot could possibly drive one, though we never can know, because that would only come about in the future.

In the nineties cars ceased having those sharp angles and the sides became rounder in virtually a real life precursor to web two point oh. The Colt stayed in vogue and the fifth generation showcased a front wheel drive 1500 cc 8 valve SOHC caburettor engine in the base GL model, or a 1800 cc SOHC 8 valve EFI engine in the bigger GLXi variant.

These days the Colt Cleartec contains the most advanced features ever seen in a Colt brochure and is still manufactured to the best standards on the production lines of Japan. Another classic in the making.