New Cars Road Tests

ROAD TEST: Mitsubishi Mirage LS

In terms of simple, basic transport, they don’t come much more simple and basic than the Mitsubishi Mirage LS. That is not meant as an insult though, as the Mirage is actually quite endearing for all its basic simplicity. It has a wonderfully growly little three-cylinder engine that is as frugal as it is characterful […]

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First Drives New Cars

FIRST DRIVE: Mitsubishi Mirage

The Mitsubishi Mirage was once the sales hero of the Japanese manufacturer’s range in New Zealand, at one stage even claiming a massive 35 percent segment share. Now, after an absence of more than a decade the Mirage name is back to replace the un-lovely Colt. We head to Wellington to take it for a […]

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Classic New Cars

Blast From The Past: Mitsubishi Starion

OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Mitsubishi Starion It is arguably the car that started the avalanche of RWD Japanese GTs in the 1980s and remains one of the more enigmatic today. The Mitsubishi Starion may have a funny name, but it has passed into the realms of desirable classic remarkably easily. We take one for a blast! […]

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