The Mitsubishi GTO is an amazing car, surprisingly capable considering the age. I bought mine without having any real understanding of what it could do and I soon learned my lessons. I thought that some of my previous cars pretty fast but nothing like this. First take a look at the spec of my 1991 GTO Twin Turbo:-
3 litre V6
Twin Turbo
4 Wheel Drive
4 Wheel Steering
Active Aero Front and Rear
Active Suspension
OK. Thats plenty to go on for now. 0 - 60 is about 4.5 seconds without any modifications. I was actually scared of this car for the first few weeks of driving. For a very reasonable price I had a car that, if pushed, could annihilate any porsche stupid enpough to try and goad me into a race. Not that I condone such behaviour, I am now that little bit older and ever so slightly more sensible and I would now only drive the GTO on weekends.
With such a high performance car comes a certain amount of maintenance. I have actually found that the running costs and maintenance are quite reasonable for what the car is capable of. When you consider all the supercars out there you need an oil change every few thousand miles and some even need a new clutch or a complete strip down service from 5000 to 8000 miles.
The GTO can have an oil change like most other cars on the road, taking the engine size into consideration, around 10000 - 12000 miles and the everyday maintenance parts are easy enough to fit by yourself.
When something more technical needs attention I thoroughly recommend the use of this workshop manual. (http://www.cqout.com/item.asp?id=8886874) I have referred to it time and again for help with how to find and fit some of the less common parts and as a pretty good fault finding and diagnosis guide. I thought the price was very reasonable and it comes in PDF format so anyone should be able to view it on their home PC or, even better, on a laptop computer right beside the vehicle while you work. You feel like such a professional F1 team mechanic doing this.
I wouldn't say that I am an expert mechanic by any means, more of an amateur if anything but I have been able to sort all my problems out without once having to call a Mitsubishi mechanic using this Manual. I may also be able to
