Why the hell not in america?

Why in the hell didn't mitsubishi import these into the U.S.A.? what were they thinking..are they retarded? and by the way, what kinda engine were these cars originally available with? i would say i'm gonna look into buying one. but i live in the us, and thre's no way i'll be able to import one for street use legally....sucks to be me

As far as I know, they came with 3 different engines.
1.8L inline4
2.0L non-mivec V6
2.0L mivec V6

thanx man

Originally posted by Yogi_B
As far as I know, they came with 3 different engines.
1.8L inline4
2.0L non-mivec V6
2.0L mivec V6 You’re absolutely right.

The GS is the 1.8L
The GR is the 2.0L non-MIVEC V6
and the GPX and GP Version R are the 2.0L MIVEC V6I

I've got the GPX (well in the process of selling it anyway). It's a great car, and I'm really going to miss it.

Crackerman, see if you can find a German Spec FTO those should be left hand drive and then you can get the car federalized easy(You could do that with the Right hand drive cars bur its gonna be much more $$$). Check it out. Good luck man the FTO is a badass car. OHHH, another thing is that Mitsubishi is going to be or already is selling the FTO in Mexico and get this is supposed to have a 3.0LTwin Turbo motor!! And laying down mad horsepower, you could look into that one as well. Again, good luck man.

thanks y'all

why wont they for real, the engine pretty much normal and looks state legal. Why dont they sell them here?

Crackerman, see if you can find a German Spec FTO those should be left hand drive and then you can get the car federalized easy

Not going to happen mate, the FTO was only ever officially released in Japan. A few got officially imported into the UK & Australia but the rest are all grey imports - so there are NO left hand drive ones I'm afraid! (which is a shame cause if they were available in the US there'd be a shed load more tuning parts available to us and maybe Mitsi would still be making FTO's now!)

Hostile

Personally im glad they were never exported to the states cos then we would never be the proud owners of such sexy cars :bananasmi Sorry to all you guys in the US for once you lose out!!!!!!!!!!!

In the US there is the Mitsi Eclipse: similar but not that much.

For yo u who want to know more about our cars got to
www.ftooc.org (http://www.ftooc.org)

Sorry for you yankies but they're wicked cars :naughty:

I know, i wish i had the car, dang mitsu. The cars seem really really cheap ove rin UK say a GPX for like 8000[uk curreny] which came to round liek 12-13 Gs here which i think is extremly good for a 200hp V6 . Man i'd rape alot cars with it, stock :) . I wish they came here, i've been hearing rumours of the new FTO with 3.0l TT, i am going to keep looking into it, the second i find hard proof and price, im gonig to import it :) [if i can afford it ;), hopefully will keep norm FTO cheap price ahahha i wish ]

Tooo bad they were never in US officialy, but hey, if we are able to get em from mexico in future less posers to have em, only the TURE enthusiast will own and cherish it :).

-Gleas0n

Sorry mate, but I'm afraid there aint no 3.0 TT FTO and there never will be! (which is a shame!)

the closest thing i heard to the 3.0tt fto was 3.0tt sst(a modified 3g eclipse) on Mitsubishi's concept cars site.

hey you never know im in the process of getting everything i need to import the sweet ass car into the US and all im looking for now is the crash test information other then that i already know how much it's going to cost to get it over here. and as for the 3.0TT i doubt it unless you do some serious modifications with the turbos. I think someone got mixed up thinking that they could put the v6 twin turbo out of the 3000gt vr4 (thats what we call the GTO here in the US). only problem is that the v6 that sits in the fto is a 121 cu. and the twin turbo engine is a 181 cu. so fitment is doubtful

I would love to own an FTO so much. Stupid USA

is mitsubishi really going to sell the fto in mexico?

prolly not

the FTO is no better than the eclipse, which is built in the US, to import them Mitsu would have had to deal with paying duties, thats why they sold the domestically built Eclipse instead.

You cannot legally import one to the USA an there isn't enough interest in them to create a federalization process as has been done with the skyline.