Mitsubishi Aspire

The Mitsubishi Aspire was a mid-size sedan built and sold by Mitsubishi Motors from August 1998 until March 2003. It replaced the Eterna and was a sister car of the eighth-generation Galant, sold through Mitsubishi's Car Plaza dealer network. It differed from the Galant mainly through clear-lens headlights, amber turn signals built into the rear lamp clusters, a red Mitsubishi emblem and an automatic-only line-up, and it had no high-performance version like the Galant VR-4. Every car used a 1.8-litre 4G93 DOHC GDI engine at launch, replaced by the 2.0-litre 4G94 in May 2000, and it was built at the Okazaki plant of the Nagoya works in Aichi Prefecture. Sales ended when the Car Plaza network was merged into the Galant stores.