Mitsubishi Galant Fortis
April 27, 2007 by Alborz Fallah
This is the new Lancer. Although its now called the Mitsubishi Galant Fortis. Odd name indeed. From what we can gather, Fortis is Latin for strong, steadfast, courageous. Right.
Mitsubishi needs this car for an all new assault on the medium car market, with the Lancer Evolution X kicking up a huge storm with its aggressive and powerful design – the boys over at Subaru must be a little scared given the abomination they now call the MY08 Impreza WRX.
“new-generation global sedan with world-class levels of safety, environmental performance and comfort”.
The new Lancer.. Galant is powered by the same engine as the Evo X (albeit without a turbo and other modifications), a new 2-liter engine with aluminum cylinder block. When your Halo car is based on an everyday sedan, it is bound to help improve the sporty image of the new Galant.
However Mitsubishi has also concentrated a great deal of effort on safety with a high-rigidity platform to improve crash worthiness. No details from Mitsubishi Australia as of yet.
It would be interesting to see if Mitsubishi will drop the Lancer from the name, and whether or not the new Evo X will be priced above 70k.
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Definetly put a fairly large emphasise on safety. You can tell by the body design and structure. It becomes more apparent though when you realise you get 7 airbags as a standard all across the range. Yes, you get it on the base model. Isn’t that more than what you get in a Holden Caprice bomadore or GTS. And yet Mitsubishi give 7 airbags on a sub-20k car. Holden means a great deal to Australia.
It’s a little Alfa’esque, and IMNSHO it’s easily the best looker in its class.
It looks as though Mitsubishi are deliberately trying to blur the lines between the traditional Lancer, and the medium sized Galant which has been sold here for a few years.
The size of this car might be in between those two, and might just eat a large chunk out of the Corolla & Astra market dominance. This could be the beginning of Mitsubishi’s resurgence, just like Mazda did in 2000 when they announced the 6.
Lol good call Damo… I think Holden means a great deal to U.S wallets, they are starting to bring out their Daewoo trash to Australia, only one word to describe that is cost cutting… at the expense of the Australian public (No ESP in Epic, 2 star safety rating in Barina etc)
LOL, good call to you too Paul. Holden means a great deal to no one. Mitsubishi are beginning a new epic similar to what Mazda did with the 2,3, and 6 back in 2002 and trying to head into a similar direction to Toyota. Whilst Holden (the company who has management who are unfamiliar with the definition of “efficiency) have released the all new Epica. I actually like them dropping the Lancer name for Aus and replacing it with Galant because it seems a fair bit classier and the Evo seems more like a VR4 even though I still want the name for that to be kept as the Evo. So, who does mean a great deal to Australia? The Japanese, Mitsubishi, Toyota, and Mazda, clearly they are the automotive Gods. If only the three companies could develop a Japanese supercar together.
Paul a lot of cars still aren’t fitted with ESP, including some of the safest cars on the market. Holden is run by an American-based brand, so of course it means something to the US, as does Toyota to Japan.
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Yes thats my point… the fact is they all mean a great deal to where they come from, however this is contrary to alot of bogan folk.
As for ESP… Im sure there are cars without ESP that have great crash ratings, however ESP isnt about that, its about preventing the crash in the first place! And most decent cars now have ESP as an option… the Epica does not have it at all.
So you dont count the Camry Altise or Ateva as decent then? Yes the Grande has ESP, but not everyone is willing to folk out $6000 to $10000 to go up a variant or two for ESP. You could argue that atleast one model of the Camry has ESP, but the majority of buyers wouldnt go for the Grande.
the new lancer looks awesome! anyone know when its released in australia? this is gonna do very well for mitsubishi
To answer your question tim it should be here by July at the latest. MMAL wanted to release it in March/April but ended up having it postponed due to it selling out in the U.S.
By the way, it’s Galant Fortis not Lancer.
Alfa 159 anyone?
how much are the ds, es and gts models going to be when released in australia?
yep….now thats what i call a car with very good lines,a hint of alfa but mark my word folks,this will be the turning point for MML australia…..OH and i can`t wait for the EVO!!!….delish………..
The Galant Fortis looks great, I like the more agressive look. Its obviously way ahead of the old fugly Lancer in terms of style, i hope the interior is as good as the exterior, im wishing it would be futuristic(kinda like the civic’s interior) and if Mitsubishi packs this car with heaps of juicy extras like esp, abs,cruise, trip computer, seat memories, dual climate, side mirror indicators, control buttons on the steering wheel…etc etc…
(lol…wishful thinking i guess) well im a dead set customer then.
Unreal looking car. Yes bit ALFAish… shades of tiny VOLVO on front. And why have whimpish driving lights down the bottom as looks too traditional and typical carish. Should have bigger driving lights like WRX did in earlier models which looked aggresive and purposeful and not like now very statesman and executive like. WICKED LOOKING DESIGN AND LOOKS VERY EDGY AND SPORTY! Go you good thing!!!
It is funny, people are saying this will be the turn around of Mitsubishi???? They better design front ends and rear ends much more appealing as that abortion of a 380 has stupid front headlights and chainsaw chopped off back weird end with bizarre taillights. Agree Mitsubishi has the platform there to kick back hard and is back on track as really nice cars starting to appear after that imbecile French designer who designed that hideous Challenger previous model – dam Frenchy; or the bug eyed headlights on the previous Magna where hideous. GOOD TIMES ARE A COMING…
Interesting Car. Having owned a 1992 GSR Galant for 15 wonderful years have been looking forward to a replacement that fitted into the same league that the original did in it’s time. The Galant was a class above the rest in it’s day and one would hope this is the same as the competition has got a lot stronger with so many different makes, models and variants available.