2002 Mitsubishi Galant V6: The official car of the driver who thinks a 2003 Nissan Altima V6 is a bit too snooty for their tastes.

Mitsubishi Galant: "that's all I'm getting for social security benefits?"

Mitsubishi Galant. It drives straight so I said F*&k it. Perfect summary of owning this car.

Lmao I remember the 0-0-0 ad campaign, my dad was a Toyota executive at the time at the TMMK plant and saw the commercial, and said “That’s the most stupid thing in the world, no wonder Mitsubishi is failing, no money for three months?” Edit: this was 2004 Toyota was on top of the world at that point.

I had an 01 ES in maroon. Bought it in 03 for $7000 as a 19 year old. Put 200k miles on it before the head gasket blew in 2011 with minimal maintenance. I installed a Pioneer dolphin deck and a Polk subwoofer that I got on special from my job in the Circuit City warehouse. Every corner of the car had been hit and run and I never wanted to pay the deductible. The A/C didn’t work for the last 2 years I drove it. The hubcaps would just pop off and roll away after hitting potholes on a busy highway. I eventually stopped replacing them and drove it on the steelies. I lived in it for a while instead of moving back to my hometown. It got me everywhere I needed to be during a very tumultuous time in my life. I loved that car.

Back when they had the 0-0-0 ads, I thought "Oh yeah, Mitsubishi made the Zero fighter for the Japanese military in WWII".

If the Mitsubishi Galant v6 was rear wheel drive, you would see them in every drift event

The VR-4 version of this car with the chiseled looking nose always seemed desirable to me.

Now this is a regular car

I used to own 2 1991 Galant VR-4's and an '89 GS. They were some of the ugliest sleeper demon cars I've ever owned. Because I loved them so much, when it was time for a new car I looked it up and sure enough they had a new VR-4. V-6...Twin Turbo...AWD...AWS...Active suspension! YES! A 4-door 3000GT! Hell yeah! So I went to Mitsubishi and...the VR-4 is not available in the US Market. FUUUUUCK!! Test drove a spankin' new Galant and was very impressed how they managed to fit so much shitty into a midsize sedan. Ugly interior, plastic everything, loud everything but the radio, flimsy controls, wishy washy handling, anemic...there is nothing redeeming about this car. It's the Official Car of hitting the snooze button for a 3rd time before calling out of work with eye problems, because you just can't see yourself getting out of bed today. Ran into a VR-4 in the wild out in Qatar. Everything I said about the US Market version...forget that. Mr. Muhammad let me give it a spin. Interior...immaculate. Seats...snug but just so. Audio...nothing but engine revvs and hadji radio. Handling...superb. Power...I dumped the clutch and the wheels chirped and my ears touched behind my head. Why could we not get this thing in the USofA??? Fuck me! We got a stripped down version of the EVO without all the fun gadgest because "It's toOoOo ExPeNsIvE", but if you'd given it full kit and slapped any other high end car manufacturer's name on it, Audi, Acura, BMW, Infinity, hell at the time DODGE!! it would have sold at a premium. But no. Mitsubishi decided to languish at the parking lot of the Dollar General waiting for handouts. What happened to you Mitsu? What happened to you?

Honda Accord: Runs for 20 years if you take care of it. Mitsubishi Galant: Still running 22 years later after having the wet shit beat out of it.

Back in 2004 when I was in the Navy in Norfolk, Va. I swear these things were everywhere, people liked to put boom boxes in it with crazy rims.

That looks like a smoke blowing Mitsi Magna! Australia's Magnas are what people buy when they missed out on a Camry, but aren't dumb enough to buy a Nissan.

I'm 8 seconds in and I'm already hurting by what owners have done to this poor Mitsi in the past 😭

This is the first RCR I've watched in a while. I don't know jack about Mitsubishis but the reference to Pennsylvanian coal towns is spot on. I'm not a native Pennsylvanian but I've lived in PA for two decades now. The state is full of little, hollowed-out coal and steel towns with nothing left but a convenience store, a nail spa, a bodega and a pizza place. Their streetlight poles are festooned with banners honoring their war veterans, some of whom you may still find at the bar at the Legion or VFW. Their yards are filled with banners proclaiming their loyalty to a New York con man who will make their lives great again not by bringing back coal and steel but by keeping the Mexicans away from what few jobs that remain. Sometimes there's a craft brewery.

I felt this one. I bought cheap car after cheap car, wasting tons of money i didn't have, mostly on repairs. I bought my 06 tacoma 9 years ago. I suffered thru $400 payments for 4 years on a 10 year old truck with 180k miles on it. But it paid off cuz it's never been in the shop. It has 261k miles on it now. Smartest decision i made..

Oh man, the thing about the coal mine is so true. Old Mitsubishi Galants and Eclipses where the missing windows are replaced with plastic sheeting or trashbags held in with wood screws, a Volvo rusted so badly the dried mud baked on from the swiss cheese exhaust being the only thing holding the rear axle on, and first generation S-10s with beds that look like surrealist sculptures and so much missing clearcoat that it resembles a topography map. People need cars in places like that, but they can't afford them so they buy crashed junkers with salvage titles and put them together with whatever they have lying in their yard.

"The Rise and Fall of Mitsubishi in WRC" documentary points to the 0-0-0 promo was the death nail in Mitsubishi. Because they ended up eating hundreds of millions of dollars due to the repossessions. They also lost $1.4 billion due to EPA milage cheating at the same time.

God I almost want to start a GoFundMe for this poor owner.

I worked at a Honda dealership in 2004-05...a 1-2 year old Galant was the great switcheroo car when someone couldn't get approved on an late-model used Accord. I actually liked them just fine at the time, but time has not been friendly to these Galants

inside Kunkleman Mitsubishi’s offices: “Mert and Aloysius will have to sign X’s, only four of us can write..”

Old Man Kunkleman must have expanded his enterprise.

Was my old car, YOUR WELCOME FOR THE FOAM FOOTBALL AND COAL MUD BODY FILLER SPECIAL 😂😂

As a former 6G72 owner, I must say it was really good at turning petrol into noise.

Back then I heard a radio ad for Mitsubishis zero down zero percent. The ad said " here at Mitsubishi we hold zeros in high regard." Thats an ad I only heard once.

I owned a 2000 galant throughout high school and college. I got it used from a salesman that drove cross country. I drove from Chicago to Virginia and back over and over for four years during college. It struggled up hills and was rusting bad in spots, but never had a single issue. AC never stopped working, leaked a small enough amount of oil it was negligible and the transmission never slipped even in the least. The only thing was the headlight would go out sometimes, but I could give it a wiggle when I popped the hood and it would light back up, which I would demonstrated for officers that pulled me over when it turned off. I ended up selling it with 364 thousand miles when it was all said and done. That car deserved a Medal of Honor.

That car is ROUGH. Looks like it had quite a life.

Twenty years ago, I had an ‘89 Civic Si, bought it for a few hundred from the service writer at the Honda dealership where I worked. He was form PA (this was in Ohio) so there was plenty of scrap metal frankensteined on the fenders where you’d normally see the cancer on an ‘80s car that lived its life in the hard, salty Pennsylvania winters. But apart from that, the car was in damn fine shape, only had just over 100k on the odometer and it loved to be tossed around. I miss that car so much sometimes. I’ll get back to it in a bit. In 2002, I was desperate, and in my desperation, I was a sucker for one of those MLM schemes, selling shit for a couple of scumbags to pay the scumbags who trained them, and so on. This Galant reminds me of the myriad shitboxes I got to ride around in for those ten days before I came to my senses and noped the hell outta there after a new recruit introduced herself by saying the most interesting thing she could think of about herself was that she “shidded” herself when she gave birth to her daughter. Except back in those days, the shitboxes were Ford Tempos with dead heater cores in subzero temps, Chevy Berettas with doors that wouldn’t stay closed, or K-cars that, well, were K-cars, but they for sure had pricey stereo head units and subwoofers that could liquefy a corpse shoved in the trunk. Tinted windows, velour Crown Royal bags on the shifter, steering wheel covers with cherries or naked lady silhouettes or tweety bird, the drivers did what they could to make it look on the inside like the Mustang they wanted to get one day from a shady buy-here-pay-here lot and put dubs on. It was an experience, I’m just glad I got out of it before too long, even if I didn’t quite land on my feet afterward. Anyway, the Si. I got two years with that car, before it became all too apparent that it was not safe to drive and there was no fixing it. The frame was swiss cheesed to the point that it was starting to come apart, so my wife traded it in for an ‘02 Si. At this point, I’d gotten my life together and had moved on from all that dirtbag-adjacent shit (I wasn’t really one myself, I didn’t even drink, I was just deeply depressed and so riddled with anxiety that I didn’t know _how_ to make good life choices) and went back to school. I still have nightmares that I’m back at one of the many awful jobs I had back then, and I may have another one tonight as that goddamn Mitsubishi Basketcase will serve as a reminder of what once was and what should never again be. _Thanks._ I owe you one.

I was almost forced to buy one when my financed Dodge broke down. This was the only car I could get that kept the payments low enough for me 21 years ago. I still have it today. It's never broken down. I'm a Toyota guy now, and I think these are just as reliable. I love it for that. My son will drive it soon.

The Diamante was definitely 🔥 of that era !!!

Back in the day where I grew up people loved Galants. If you had a Diamante you were ballin lol.

I was going on a road trip and got one of these as a upgrade. It was brand new. I payed extra for insurance and beat the heck out of it. I was pretty impressed by it. I forgot what the top speed was but it was pretty good for the time.

I was born in '98, grew up on the West Coast, have memories of family events from before 9/11, but I don't actually remember it, because that's not the type of news that my parents in 2001 would share with a 3 and 1/2 year-old. That being said, I remember the 0-0-0 commercials, and I never understood why they didn't just say the price of the car. I remember when the local mattress retailers started using that deal, and I thought "pay no interest until 2004" was SO FAR into the future. I gotta give props to my Dad for explaining to 5-year-old me the concept of purchasing on credit and interest rates in a way I could understand and comprehend!

Better car in GTA 4 as the Maibatsu Vincent than IRL 😂

My parents owned one and it actually made it to 300,000+ miles. Thanks for reviewing a true regular car.

Back in the 1990s- 2000s the mitsubishi eclipse and 3000GT were hot cars.

This episode is classic regular car reviews

I had a 01 Galant V6. It wasn’t fancy but it was a tank. No matter what happened to it,it just kept going. I sold it with 173k on it for 400$. The girl that bought it drove it for two or three years. She never changed the oil or took care of it. So it finally popped the engine and went into the scrap yard.

Holy moly I was just driving behind a Mitsubishi yesterday and thought to myself "whatever happened to the Galant?" And then you drop this haha.

i like how the fronts of these look

"Structural foam football" is not something I expected to hear today.

in the mid-90s Mitsubushi pushed the Galants out with dirt cheap leases around NYC - something like $150 a month with very little down. my neighborhood was full of them, and my family got one. I ended up learning how to drive in it. It was....fine, especially for the price.

My wife had one for awhile. She loved it, but then again, the only car she can accurately name if seen on the road is a Mustang. It eventually had an electrical fire. After insurance fixed it, she got rid of it and i think it is still being driven by the same older lady who bought it. They were surprisingly durable.

The SOHC’s 6G’s in these galants (and so many other Mitsubishi’s) are ridiculously unkillable. I have a friend with one that’s literally cracked down the center of the block, JB welded back together, and the oil pickup is so badly bent that I’m surprised it even has oil pressure at all. Despite all this, he runs it off limiter ON COLD START on the daily- and yet somehow, it still runs and drives. Thing is powered by hopes and dreams alone.

“Or the person riding shotgun was on the heavier side of the Presidential scale. More Howard Taft than Honest Abe.” This word craft just to describe shot suspension is why I remain here 😂

The 8th gen VR4's before this were extremely underrated tho. Evo 4 GSR drivetrain incl. AYC, 2.5 twin turbo v6, AND SLA multilink suspension front & reat (so comfortable and handles great). Basically a bigger more luxurious (relatively) super comfy evo with more torque and a giant af sunroof! What's not to love? Also, LEGNUM 👋🎤

Finally, a regular car.

At a previous job, my lab had a Grand Marquis with (Arizona) Farm Vehicle plates (we were on a pecan orchard - even the executives' company cars had farm plates) and this reminds me of that car. The Grand Marquis had I think one working seat belt, and when I started there, it didn't have AC. IN SOUTHERN ARIZONA. I made the farm equipment shop fix the AC, at least. It got like 12mpg on whatever 75 octane farm grade gas from the cardlock fuel pump that frequently broke down, and I'm pretty sure the entire suspension was made of zip ties and scrap metal. That shitbox was a hilarious, and as such, I can absolutely understand this Galant.

I've always wanted a VR4 version of this generation. Of course we never got the VR4 version, cause we never get the cool stuff, cuz we got Galant at home. A laughable V6 and an anemic 4 cyl, single cam, 2.4. I had one in my youth, with the 4 cyl, handed down to me, after my dad passed away. Used to dream about turning it into a 4wd and swapping in a 4G63T. At 200k miles the transmission took a crap, even with all the meticulous maintenance. Then again, I would beat the livin shit out of that car. She would see nothing less than 80 mph on the highway, and I used to throw it sideways on gravel roads. I would commuted an hour to two to get to work 6 days a week. I wanted to keep it, but a landlord who had beef with my brother, and by extension me, threatened to have it towed and impounded, only a week after the transmission failed. So instead of having someone haul my baby Ruby away, I decided to send her away myself to the big dismantler in the sky. I got 100 bucks for the car. Kept my $300 optima battery and sold it for $200. That still hurts, and I still miss that car.

in 2002 I had 2001 ES, came from Florida with 21000miles silver....loved it! had it for 10yrs and it held up better than I thought gave to my brother because he was a new dad and needed a ride, he had it for a year and it got totaled by a jeep😢😢...the thing is it was so simple to mod and to work on that I want it back...we broke here in Rochester ny so all the old cars are looking great right now😅😅😅

My stepdad had a dark green Galant Sport. Still one of my favorite looking cars.

I had a european 2002 Galant with a 2.5 V6 Elegance 4 speed auto, the top model which previously belonged to the director of Mitsubishi of The Netherlands. I loved that car. It was not very fast (162 BHP) etc but it was reliable and I loved the looks of it (not quite the same as the one shown here). Very expensive to drive (our petrol has always been a lot more expensive than USA, there I would always drive V8 with those prices even now) A bit of an alternative to a 5 series BMW, although they would certainly be more expensive and better.

I wish that Galant makes Andrew fall in love with her. I really hope she doesn't get scrapped. She's got character.

This was one of the best episodes ever and I've seen them all

We rented one of these once. Don't know the exact year, but it was this generation. Our DD at the time was a B5 Passat, so.... Let's say between the weird tinny resonance which shook the entire body of the car when you closed a door/hit a bump/looked at it funny, and the driving experience, which combined the ride harshness of a hard core sports car with the handling precision of a wounded Buick, it didn't compare all that well.

I have a 2003 Mitsubishi Diamante I'd wish he would review. It's basically Australia's Magna here in the states.

Thanks man this is a fun one, you're in prime form today sir.🤣🤣

2002 Mitsubishi Galant: the car where a $50 Ebay timing kit will add 10% to the street value and you'd get more for it at the junkyard than you could sell it for, at least as long as the guy calculating your tonnage doesn't own a magnet.

The 3.0 engine was actually a decent engine for me

Sad to see this one absolutely abused, no shock to see you hated it, especially in low trim. My Dad had a 2003 Galant 2.5 Equippe Estate JDM import and it was a great car, he daily'd it for 12 years and only got rid of it because my city introduced emissions restrictions in 2018 of which it did not pass. I miss that car, you just don't get desirable affordable reliable cruisers anymore.

I bought one of these as a newer used car in the early 2000s but I had the four cylinder instead of the V6. As someone who does his own work I can't stand V6 engines crammed into a front-wheel drive layout. I never thought of it as sporty, it seemed more luxury...at least on the inside. The exterior styling, especially looking at it from the rear, seemed like it borrowed heavily from the BMW. It looked good, it was reliable, and it was very comfortable to drive. Mine was 2 years old and only had 20,000 miles. I got it' so cheap I saved up on the side and paid it off early. I drove that car for 7 years in eastern Pennsylvania and left it parked outside everyday. I sold it with no body rot and still looking fairly new.

I owned one of these from 2013-2023, traded it in for a 2020 Toyota Corolla Hatch Back XSE, it did the job for A to B travel, until it couldn't 89,000 miles to about 155,000 miles. Good lil car ill miss it sorta.

The VR4 of that generation is a completely different car, its a shame they did not bring it over at that time.

when I look at that engine bay, all I can think is wow, that's a lot more space to work on things than I was expecting.

The wagon vr4 version is 🥵

the depressing regularity is so refreshing. I inhaled deeply at the sight of this car. I still don't know how to explain why I like that feeling. but thank you for that, RCR.

I appreciate this explanation of Mitsubishis in general. I so often see them with some kind of unrepaired damage and half wondered if parts were simply unavailable in the U.S.

Not the Galant, but Mitsubishi Magnas were the quite staple in Aus, away from the Commodores and Falcons having their weekly bar brawls, and Camry just at the bar having drinks with workmates instead of his wife and kids. Magna, in fact most Mitsubishi's here just like to do an honest job and hope they're doing the best for their families

As an Australian this is one of the most "an car" of all time. At least the regional equivalent (Magna). Right up there with the XV20 Camry. Ours must have been much more survivable. They're still pretty common on the road today.

I remember the ad campaign like it was yesterday what a great review thank you

The same company that brought forth the Starion/Conquest and then followed that up with the 3000GT/Stealth. But look at Mitsubishi now, just a shadow of its former self. 😥

Me: "There's no such thing as a perfect ending to a yt video." RCR reviewing a *Galant*: "Hold my Asahi."

In my country 🇹🇹 we called this generation the "shark mouth". (Tell me you don't live in a landlocked country without telling me you don't live in a landlocked country) ALL owners here do one of the following: A. Make them VR4 conversions, either the sedan or station wagon. B. Slap all kinds of engine/trans setups and frankenstein VR4 imitations. SR20/RB20 RWD DET. C. Drive this until the wheels fall off....which is the reason why I am seeing more and more or the other 2 options being done.

What's curious about this car is that different versions had different suspension architecture for some odd reason. The US version had MacPherson struts, while the European and JDM cars had a multi-link I think up front.

I love these cars specifically because it was my first car this is the car that gives me all the nostalgia thank you for this one it makes me so happy to just see a Galant V6 even in such bad shape

5:30 the Mitsubishi galant: the boots theory of economic unfairness

I love the design of the euro galant.

I’ve always liked the shape of this car.

Usdm variant of this Generation Galant doesn't do the car any justice, Mitsubishi really watered it down compared to jdm/euro models.

I was hooked from the opening line!

I don't know how you do it, but you describe me right to a tee every time.

If you haven't done the Australia tour yet, you simply *must* drive the Galant's Australian cousin, the Magna. It is the ultimate "low income single dad car" in Aus, the shitbox among shitboxes, the Camry we have at home.

in Indonesia the people here refer to them as the shark galant (not 'shark nose' or nothin' just the shark galant) these were the fastest s**t you can still afford round here back then with the only engine option being a 2.5 V6 i think it was the 6A12? anyway these we're and still is loved by the Indonesian car community

This is as long as an episode should ever be. 👍

This is gonna be a banger.

Definitely one of the best cars in terms of work/A-to-B beaters. I own one for a year, bought as a first car when I was 17, 4 cylinder 4G64. It survived a 45 mph flying over speed bumps, it survived 4 other people who trained on this car prior to the driving test, and it even survived driving without oil at all since it burnt all the oil. Survived all the abuse that 17-year-olds’ usually provides for this things. Obviously, it’s not the best car at all, but it’s definitely the best car for its value and also incredibly reliable (4 cylinder). It’s also the best first car, just to start driving

The Galant was a great first new car after college. I beat the shit out of this car for 11 years and it never let me down. I took it on the Autobahn, Autostrada, and then back to the states when I was stationed in America again. Never broke down, easy to work on, I never was stranded anywhere… I did the required maintenance on it. It doesn't have excess electronic bullshit that today's cars are plagued with. I miss this era of the simple, affordable, reliable, non bullshit car.

Respect to the owner

The older generation was one of the cooler looking sedans. This just exists.

good video after a while of not great

More like this please. ❤ We got this model Galant in the UK but not with a 3 litre engine as far as I can recall. The biggest engine was 2.4 litre.

Great video, I still love that model

Please do one on a Corona. My mom had two of them in the 80's and the memories of those cars will always be with me. Like herpes.

I have a low mileage 2000 galant GTZ and i love it. I feel i have to defend this car. Simple maintenance on it will keep it running and they're pretty peppy cars. 190 hp isn't something to look down on for a daily driver. Great car!

Cars like this make me so happy

Its a very rare car that is no longer on the roads. It looks like the majority of them were scrapped.

Great video

For some reason this is my favorite video so far lol

Most interesting reference to my hometown I’ve ever heard in the beginning 🤣

A friend of mine had a Galant V6 for a coupla years, which was... ayite I guess... But when he bought a 2001 Mk3 VR4... THAT was the start of his tuning era, and it soon turned into a bit of a beastie 😉👍 😎🇬🇧