I want this car.........

[peterbredde]

This year has been a bad one for me financially - I won't bore you with the details. If it had not been I would be buying this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1980-W-Mitsubishi-Sapporo-2-...

Cars of this era are right up my street. Look at the curves on the rear screen - lovely. Anyone with me?

[slomax]

No, I'm not feeling the love for this car that you obviously have, i don't like it, but i can at least see why/how someone could.

[LooseCannon]

When these were current they seemed quite exotic, like a posh avant-garde Capri. I loved them then, time hasn't been too kind IMHO but still has a lot of appeal.

[mybrainhurts]

NO...

[lowdrag]

I guess rare, an oddity as well, but does that mean that spares are non-existent? The rear window resembles a Fuego, and I never liked those either. But I admire you for liking it; a poor world if we all thought the same.

[A911DOM]

Refreshingly different to the norm. (Not my sort of thing by any means).

If you like it, BUY IT - It'll make you more determined for the next financial struggle

[braddo]

I dont' see much appealing, sorry, but it caused me to remember that as a kid in the 80s I did like big curved glass like that - Porsche 944s, Mk1 RX7s...

I'm afraid that late 70s/early 80s Jap styling generally doesn't do it for me. Memories of growing up surrounded by horrible Datsun 120Ys, 180Bs, Toyota Coronas [shudder].

[jimmyjam]

Yep, I'm with you, I think that looks great and will age well. The colour suits it too.

[niagra]

Cool, although I prefer the look of the Toyota Celica of the same period.

[Maldini35]

The first of my mates to pass his driving test nicked his mum's Sapporo and took us out for an Inbetweeners style Pussy Patrol around his village. I remember him getting the back end out on a couple mini-roundabouts.
I thought that car was unbeleivably exotic at the time.
Still like it too.

[Grrrmachine]

I'm a big fan of that, and the Starion, but compared to their contemporaries they're not a particularly inspiring drive. As others have said, it's the quirk factor that gives them the most appeal.

[Gompo]

It's cool, it's been on Ebay for atleast a month so they may be willing to drop the price a little. If it's as good as the advert reads then it's probably worth the money. Shame it's an Auto..

[ROOODBOY]

I love the looks of those things, shame there are so few around now, I can't remember the last time I saw one.

When I was a kid and living in the west country, a bloke down my road had a silver one, which I always used to stare at as I walked by on my way to school.

He later swapped it for a white Lancer Turbo (the second shape, I think), must have been around 1983-ish, and that was just as, or maybe even more, mesmarizing to me at ten years old!

The Renault Fuego never did it for me either.

[fourwheelsteer]

Gompo said:

Shame it's an Auto..

That's what I thought too; I drove one and it had a lovely, slick manual gearbox - one of the nicest I've ever used. As I recall, performance and handling aren't anything special but it does have a certain charm. The interior is great although that one deserves to have its original steering wheel put back and I think there was some sort of roof-mounted console - don't ask me what it was for but I'm sure there was something up there.

Not sure I'd ever buy one, but I can understand why you would.

[Gompo]

Here is another similar car on Ebay that again has been for sale for atleast a month, this time at a more expected price. No idea on how the condition compares to the one in the first post but it still looks ace, even in yellow!



http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mitsubishi-Colt-Sapparo-2-0-...
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[LS6wetdream]

sold as a sigma is oz, and there's a lot of em, some also had a bigger 2.6 engine, mitsubishi/chrysler are the two they were sold under, but i'm with the guy who mentioned starion