Mitsubishi Emeraude

The Mitsubishi Emeraude was a four-door hardtop, in effect a four-door coupe, that Mitsubishi Motors built and sold in Japan from October 1992 until August 1996. It was a new derivative of the Galant, following the earlier Galant Sigma and Eterna Sigma hardtops, with a wide 1,730 mm body, multi-reflector headlamps built into the grille, a lavish interior and V6 engines in 1.8 and 2.0 litre form, including a twin-cam MIVEC version, beside one four-cylinder 1.8. It was designed at the height of the high-society-car boom, but that boom was already fading and the cramped rear seats common to four-door coupes put buyers off, and the Diamante a class above was close in price, so sales were weak. After a time as a Japan-only model it was exported to Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. Production totalled 19,214 cars, and the name is French for emerald.