AI illustration based on a photo by Alexander-93, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Details may differ from the real car.
Brands
Mitsubishi's sports cars were about technology and traction: turbocharging, all-wheel drive and electronics, proved on rally stages. This page follows the lineage from the Starion to the 3000GT and Lancer Evolution, with the rally record and Ralliart.
The Starion of 1982 was one of the first modern Japanese turbocharged performance cars with electronic fuel injection (source 3). The GTO arrived in October 1990 and was sold outside Japan as the 3000GT and the Dodge Stealth (sources 1, 5). The American-built Eclipse went on sale in Japan in February 1990 (source 1), and the FTO coupe followed in 1994 (source 4). The Lancer Evolution arrived in October 1992, went into the World Rally Championship for 1993 and ran to ten versions before it was retired in 2016 (sources 6, 8).
Ralliart, Mitsubishi's high-performance division, founded in 1984. It scaled down in 2010, and Mitsubishi announced its return in May 2021 (source 8).
Mitsubishi
The Mitsubishi 3000GT, sold in Japan as the GTO, was the car that got everything: twin turbos, all-wheel drive, four-wheel steering and aero that moved on its own.
Photo: Cutlass, CC0 1.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Colour graded.
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