Colt King
How The Colt Came To Be
The Colt Cleartec is the next model in a series of Mitsubishi cars that have been both elegant and cost-effective for all since 1962.
Massive tombstone gas-guzzling vehicles are all well and good when you’re the dictator of some unknown wealthy country and can afford to tarmac an area the size of Kent to use as your turning circle. However for generations the normal family living in a buzzing suburb has been saving cash while getting the best quality possible by driving the newest model of Colt.
As Mitsubishi’s earliest post-war passenger car, the Colt 600 made history when it rolled off the production lines in Japan in 1962. It was not long however before the popular sleek and stylish car arrived in Europe, with the Colt 1200 and Colt 1400 wowing the general public in the early 80s. Soon everybody was queuing to be the first to take a Colt test drive.
From the mid nineteen-eighties the whole world had joined the cult of the Colt, with both 3-door and 5-door designs developed, and a top engine capacity of 1800cc. The designs sold steadily in Europe, but they were extremely popular in Denmark, where they were among the country’s top selling cars.
Several styles of Colt have gone by diverse names around the world, such as the Dodge, Plymouth and the perfectly bizarre Mirage Panther and Mirage Cyborg. Neither the Panther or Cyborg were built to be driven by any species of wild puma or futuristic bot, though arguably a futuristic robot might be able to drive one, though we never can know, because that would only happen in the future.
In the 1990s vehicles ceased having those sharp angles and the corners became rounder in virtually a real life precursor to web two point oh. The Colt remained in vogue and the fifth generation featured a front wheel drive 1500 cc 8 valve SOHC caburettor engine in the base GL model, or a 1800 cc SOHC 8 valve EFI engine in the bigger GLXi variant.
Today the Colt Cleartec contains the most modern features ever before seen in a Colt brochure and is still manufactured to the best standards on the production lines of Japan. Another classic in the making.
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