Mitsubishi Celeste

The Mitsubishi Celeste was a sports coupe that Mitsubishi built from the autumn of 1975 until the middle of 1981. It was based on the first-generation Mitsubishi Lancer but wore its own hatchback body, recognisable by a rear window and opera windows covered with plastic slats. From the spring of 1977 it was sold in Germany, where it formed part of the first Mitsubishi range there together with the Lancer and the larger Galant, in 1600 ST and 2000 GSR versions priced about 2,500 marks below a comparable Volkswagen Scirocco. In Japan a weaker 1.4 litre engine was also offered, and in other markets the same car was called the Colt Celeste or Lancer Celeste, the Plymouth Arrow and Dodge Arrow in North America and the Chrysler Lancer in Australia. A revision in early 1979 brought rectangular headlamps. The rear-wheel-drive Celeste was followed in 1982 by the front-wheel-drive Mitsubishi Cordia.