Mitsubishi Concept-ZT

The Mitsubishi Concept-ZT is a concept car developed by Mitsubishi Motors and first shown at the 40th Tokyo Motor Show in September 2007. It has an aluminium space frame chassis and a 4N14 2.2 litre clean diesel making 140 kW and 400 N m, driving all four wheels through the company's S-AWC drivetrain and SST twin-clutch transmission. Like other Mitsubishi prototypes of the period it used recyclable green plastic resin widely in the body panels and interior. There was no official confirmation at first, but the motoring press was confident that it presaged the next generation of the Mitsubishi Galant and the Galant-based Mitsubishi 380 in Australia. In August 2008 the company announced it had abandoned production plans for the car using the same drivetrain and a steel body, saying it could no longer make a business case for it.