This vs today's Mirage is shocking.

28 years on and it's still a good looking car imo.

I bought mine new for 11 grand at the end of the 89 model year. It was the last of a string of pocket rockets I owned back in the day, from an 85 Civic S hatchback, then a 87 Civic Si, then the Mits. I drove it for 10 years, it was the last car I owned that I ever truly loved. The great part was it wasn't really badged much, and pretty much looked like a run of the mill Dodge Colt if you didn't notice the wheels and the spoiler. So you could get into a race off a red light with some of the more well well known small quick cars back then like a VW Scirocco or a Civic Si and simply smoke them, they never saw it coming. Great fun! I still remember driving it home from the dealer, stopping at a toll booth on the way home and thinking it was a good time to see what it could do. When the turbo spooled up the torque came on in a somewhat non-linear manner, and that baby just started to pull to the side like it was on ice. The torque steer was downright frightening. Scared the hell out of me, neither one of the Honda's would do anything like that. The real sport was from about 10 on up, it just kept accelerating like crazy. It would get up to 125 with a quickness, though at that speed it was pretty scary, and felt like it might lift off the ground. If I had known it was gonna be that rare I would have kept it maybe, but lifestyle changes made an Odyssey a better bet in 99 for me. I was really sad to sell it to some friends of a friend who needed some wheels, I don't think they ever appreciated it or took care of it, and I heard it died a couple of years later. They probably coked the turbo, you had to remember to let it cool down or the bearings would fry. As the Trumpster would tweet, so sad... Whenever I see one of these new Mirages I wish they would change the name, it defiles what was one of the great hot hatches of the past.

This was a great car -- won every comparo test back in the day. Then it just disappeared. One of the great automotive mysteries.

Still looks good 26 years later.

Man, Mitsubishi made some cool cars back in the day. Now they barely make cars at all..... Pretty sad.

I had a black 89 Dodge Colt Gt Turbo that was exactly like this minus the Mitsu logos. Bought it in 1990 used with 10,000 miles on it. Was such a fun car. Thanks for uploading this.

It's faster and bigger than 89 Civic Hatchback SI. It's cheaper and more beautiful than 89 Volkswagen Goft. I think 89 Mirage Turbo is the best choice.

Why wasn't this more popular? This really gives the Civic a run for its money,

I like that Luigi made an appearance in this one.

I bought one of these in 1995 with only 49k on it. Great car! It had sat on a VW dealer lot for a while. I picked it up for $5995. Drove a few years until 68k and sold it for $5000. Lots of memories with that car. I met my now wife when I had that car. Lots of good times with a folded rear seat and a secluded area. Anyway I remember it had a prematurely cracked dash that look horrible and a appetite for tires. But still lots of fun. Shoulda kept that rare car. Just did not realize how rare it was

This was back when Mitsubishi was on top of the world. They had just created the Colt Cyborg hot hatch, the Pajero was streaking across the sahara in the Paris-Dakar Rally events, their American division was partnered with Chrysler Corp, and they were developing the Lancer Evolution.And now we're reduced to the Outlander and the godawful Mirage Hatchback, built entirely in Thailand. What the hell happened?

Such a badass car. I remember seeing these running around the streets in the 90s

This looks so much better than my '14 mirage

After the death of the Evo not sure what the hell Mitsu was thinking. I had a 98 Eclipse GSX which was a ton of fun and looked great. Too bad it's all gone.

I own a 89 GT that's 4g63t swapped and I just got the car back in January getting the 1g dsm rear end for an AWD swap and roll cage. I can't wait to drive it when it's AWD ❤️

My very first car identical to this sold in Canada as the Dodge Colt 200GT, but with a 12v 1.5 with a meager 82hp, I always dreamt of making my car into the rare colt\mirage turbo, I don't think I'd ever seen one in person, thanks for posting! brought back memories!

I wouldn't mind driving one of these today

I had one of these little road rippers. What a great little car.......fast, nimble and an absolute blast to throw around!

Just got the joke with the 3000 GT pic. Good one, Motorweek. 😝

I had one in black. I loved that little beer can on wheels.

I've owned one. Modded with a 2.0L swap, but it was a blast to drive. Never ending smiles and more than enough to surprise other drivers with acceleration and handling.

Test drove one when they first came out. I was very impressed. An underappreciated hot hatch from back in the day.

I test drove one my senior year in high school 1989. This was the hot hatchback! Considerably quicker than the Si and GTI. It truly sucks Mitsubishi and Dodge only made these for one year!!!!

This Mirage looks so fun! The new one is a shame!

Has this man ever actually reviewed a car with a volt meter or oil pressure gauge.

This car has almost DOUBLE the horsepower of a new Mirage and its almost 30 years older... let that sink in.

I remember reading about this car back in the day and always told my friends this car was a contender but they never wanted to believe me that it was better than and cheaper than an Si Civic or VW GTI. Then again you never really saw them too much just the regular models.

My first car out of college was an '89 Eagle Summit ES-- a rebadged Mirage Sedan with the normally aspirated 1.6L 16V (same as this, but without the turbo). I've had a string of European cars ever since, but that little Mitsu was still the most fun to drive. Still miss it.

My sister's first car was a white 4 door 1989 Mirage. This car red Mirage bring back memories!

Most of these were badged as Dodge Colts, at least in my area.

Awesome little hatch never seen one in person sadly

Damn, back then I didn't even notice this slick little car.

I had one. Bought it brand new in 1987. Was a great car.

"Grocery getter" Nobody says that anymore. What a time the late 80s was

I have only ever seen a couple of the base models (as a colt) in person, never seen this one.

I always watch these to hear the Hp and 0-60 times, good stuff!!

If you just watch the person fiddle with the inside of the car with the audio off, it looks like he is on speed and cannot stay still and gotta touch everything.

In Australia this was know as a Lancer. It followed the Lancer family. It was in sedan, wagon, 5 door lift back and this hatch. It also did not have the silly levers you had with the steering wheel. Better dials and the seatbelt was fixed the the side pillar.

Today, the Mirage (no turbo) cranks out around 80HP. But they are available new for under $10K.

My sister had one exactly like the car in the video. It drove really well. I loved the big gauges. The only problem she had was cv boots failed at about 70k miles.

a far cry from the 2015 mirage that thing desperately needs a turbo version in the worst way.

I drove one of these for my whole senior year in HS. It was awesome but I had no idea what a piece of history it was. A couple of years later I got a similar experience in a Mitsubishi Space Wagon (which was awesome too.)

I love it IT WAS MY FIRTS CAR. AWESOME FAST IT WAS MY BEST EVER CUTIE CAR I STILL MISS HIM

This car truly deserved the 2.0L Turbo four from the first gen Eclipse from the same year.

My first car was a 91 non-turbo. I miss that car. Been looking for another one of these lately and they are almost non-existent.

I didn't realize that Mitsubishi put the 4G63T in the Mirage/Colt stock....Thought it was just Eclipse/Talon, Galant and Evo's that got the 4G63T. Very interesting.... Most colts come with the SOHC 4g37 or the later..

Twas a nice car. The days of cars like this are long gone. smh

I love 80s and early 90s hatchbacks.

my 89 colt turbo was the only car that ever threw me out of my seat while taking a sharp turn on sticky tires

These were really good reviews.

Used to own the Lancer in those days, and around here they called this : the colt, but no turbo, a 1.3 and a 1.5 carburated, later injection.

Loved my 89 Mirage, so much fun

buddy had one back in the day. these things were badass, and felt more powerful than advertised. he eventually swapped the motor.

This was my first car. Loved it!😍

That is one unique hot hatch! I love it. I see there is a video of the 99 Civic Si on KZfaq, but it is of low quality. Do you guys mind if you could put the test footage of that certain car on here some day? That would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

from the back it kind of looks like a swift

Oh my, old cars are so beautiful.

Our family's second car in Canada was this Mirage (known as the Chrysler Colt)

good luck trying to find one of these rumor is they only imported about 1500

I will keep my 16 valve VW GTI 2 liter. I remember reading about these cars and liked them well enough. I owned a Sprint Turbo, that was a fun car and very reliable. But nothing beats the GTI for over all feel, handling, and style. They are Timeless.

I’ve always enjoyed the wagon-like hatch’s like these. Too bad these didn’t sell very well.

If only Mitsu kept making cars like these then maybe they would still be relevant in the American market today..

I bought the Dodge Colt version of the GT. Same car, different badges. The dealership kept lowering the price by 100 dollars a week until somebody bought it. I had fun embarrassing owners of many so-called "sports cars" of that time.

had a silver 89 mirage turbo.. fun at slower speeds, numb above 70 MPH a severely fun car!

Owned two of them....I will buy another some day!

Wow! there were telescoping steering wheels back then; shocker for me that my evo is missing this.

Hideous wheels and upholstery aside, what a neat car. If only the current Mirage performed this well.

For all the haters of the new Mirage. There is a reason why sales will not drop off, even after 7 years of production. Not even in Europe, whilst it was made for third world countries (or "upcoming markets as they say in automobile language). Mine, still zero defects after 60.000 miles. Not even a light bulb broke, and still 50 mpg.

Makes me wanna get one, and swap the 4G61 for a 4G63. Yummy torque steer!!

its rad

The 80s makes me feel like the world is good

Wish these were still around

I got one of these when I was 20. It was AWESOME! Fast as hell and sporty for its time. I loved it. That is until it shredded 2 timing belts and destroyed the engine twice. Mitsubishi, after the second timing belt, issued a "customer service campaign" to deal with the issue. I contacted them and they paid for the second belt / engine and then reimbursed me for the thousands I spent when it happened the first time. After I got it back from the second timing belt debacle, the transmission fell apart and that was that. All of this happened within 4 years.

I had a 91 Dodge Colt, same body style, I always thought it was a good looking car. With a turbo and better tires I bet that was a fun car!

Video about the Mirage Turbo. Thumbnail shows a 3000GT convertible.

@Mitsubishi, what happened???

Complaints of no oil pressure gauge? Most cars today don't have one and some even get rid of the temp gauge. Although like MW I do like having extra gauges to see what's going on, but most people don't care.

I had one of those and it was so much fun and so easy to make it go faster.I got a inter-cooler off of a 1988 Volvo turbo wagon.I had the turbo upgraded it was larger almost to big , cause the boost was like a light switch no boost then BOOM .I had mine at 210 Horsepower could have gone more but that was plenty for such a small car.

That 4G61T engine was legendary and it had a pretty tough stock bottom end. Mitsubishi has really lost its way but to be fair, people don't want to buy cars like this anymore.

Never saw one in person...just a mirage

This was the greatest Mirage in the world, next to the Cyborg and the Ralliart International Cup Cars. Now, the current Mirage has a CVT, and a 3-cylinder engine. (And, it’s not even motorcycle-based! It could’ve been assembled by Triumph, the British motorcycle makers, who love 3-cylinder engines.)

It's funny how Mitsu made better cars then, no wonder they are hurting with sales now.

Aaaahh Back when Mitsubishi was actually competitive and made interesting cars. Nowadays, they're just making low rent lackluster uncompetitive cars. At that point, we can only hope Mitsubishi comes along, redesigns their entire lineup and makes it class-competitive and brings back their high-performance cars and off road vehicles, such as the Evo, Eclipse(Not the crossover that rides on a similar chassis as the C***sler S****g(Just guess what car), the AWD Turbo sports compact coupe), 3000GT, Montero, etc. Once their lineup gets class competitive, they should make a high performance line of those cars. Also, if there are any off road vehicles or high performance cars I forgot, tell me now.

What a cool little car

It looks as good as any modern hot hatch and also its weird hearing a Yank say the words Boy Racer before they even existed here in the UK lol

I had one in 1991 turbo,amazing

Do you have any reviews of the old Saturn S series?

funny how the thumbnail of this video convinced me watch.

That car was a blast to drive. However, the torque would snatch the steering wheel right out of your hands.

Why is there a 3000gt on the thumbnail?

Test drove one once, cool car.

When economy cars actually had style. That all went away in the mid/late 90s.

Dang, I don't think I've ever seen one of these in person. Too bad, it's a sharp car!

The wheels on this car look very early 80's corvette like

I had one of these (Plymouth Colt). Mine wasn't the Turbo. Sold it a year or so later to purchase a 1990 Honda Accord EX. My relative still has it.

YASS! LOVE IT!

I feel back then those Mitsubishi cars were more Reliable then the new mitsus. Because I own one and barely took care of it and got me from my city to the farthest suburb

....the car I learned to drive on! great fun! (aka Dodge Colt GT Turbo)

so fire id kill to get my hands on one 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥