I didn't find a good place to put this, so I started a new thread. Run this thread down as many paths as you care to. However, my idea for this thread is to be a positive thread. Most of the time, threads are regarding problems. But I wanted to give thanks to Mitsubishi for conceiving, designing, and manufacturing such a valuable vehicle. It is quite a tool.
Specifically I wanted to highlight some of the things this vehicle just did.
I just drove it approximately 300 miles (one way) to where my youngest son is now attending college. He was down there with a car with a catalyst going bad. Turns out, all the catalyst internals are crumbling and can be dumped out in bits. So I doubt the catalyst was functioning much at all. Anywho...
I went down there with
- A 2.6 cubic foot refrigerator new in the box, in the back with the seat folded down. A college dorm mini-fridge.
- 2 big guys. We are not MONSTERS, but we aren't horse racing jockeys either.
- The luggage required for 3 nights at a hotel for 2 people.
- A new replacement exhaust section, the length equal to the approximate width of the inside of the vehicle
- My 2 big ass boxes of tools.
- Various smaller support items.
And with all this stuff, it still hauled my son and I down there COMFORTABLY at 75 mph and got ~41 mpg (hand measured)!
My middle son joined us later, and all 4 of us rode down to Jacksonville, FL and back. All in all, I put maybe 750 miles on the car on that trip. It probably averaged out to right at 40 mpg for all of that.
And it never missed a beat! That is one helluva car.
My only requests: MITSUBISHI, don't drop the Mirage. Don't drop the manual transmission. And don't make an electric (EV) annoyance out of it. I could tolerate a hybrid (except it would probably be a CVT).
However, if you made a 1,000 cc, 2-cylinder parallel twin with 270° offset crank, turbo diesel, I'd rush out and buy one NOW! All it needs is 70 to 90 lb-ft of torque, a manual trans and I'll buy it right now.
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