The Irish Mitsubishi FTO Owners Club

by **Bernard** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:06 pm

This guy really knows his stuff...

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/693700.htm

by **MY-JAP-MISTRESS** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:35 pm

ohhh a "typeR" ya dont see many of those about :lol:

by **Bernard** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:44 pm

MY-JAP-MISTRESS wrote:ohhh a "typeR" ya dont see many of those about

Not just any "type R" though.... the ultra rare GPX Type "R" :roll:

by **optical illusion** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:08 pm

Hey, my car is a type R!! Nothing wrong with them! :lol:

by **Myfeckin FTO** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 12:30 am

optical illusion wrote:Hey, my car is a type R!! Nothing wrong with them!

Oh dear!

by **TopCat** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 8:16 am

Ahh... I always wondered what that "v" stood for on your car OI.
But lads, its got all the books and stickers, it must be good! :roll:

by **Mustang** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:26 am

Bernard wrote:This guy really knows his stuff...

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/693700.htm

Well he knows how to present the car for sale. It looks very tidy, so he called it a type R he also called it a GPX, what matters is the car not the description. Pricey though.
I realise that in an information age it's very easy to find facts, and admittedly he is in the owners club(that just means he paid a subscription, it does not mean he has any involvement) However the fact that he is not a computer nerd who spends his time dotting the eye's and crossing the T's looking up facts and figures about model and spec and details, does not detract from the car.
Someone buys a little known of import car, it has a tyre R sticker on it, he thinks no more of it, and assumes it's a tyre R of some kind. Hardly make him an idiot :roll:

Website · by **Muad_dib77** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:37 am

What makes this a bit funny is that he has the "VersionR" sticker in one of the pictures..

I do think that the guy actually knows that they're not called "type r" as he has it in inverted commas in his title... but I'm not sure why he'd market it to people that don't know - when he's clearly trying to sell it as a super-duper-original piece of machinery..

pitty there aren't more pics, looks fairly clean..

by **gfalls** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:58 am

I love the sticker on the back window. Its some sort of warning about not using the rear wiper, if the screen is covered in ice/snow.. :lol:

by **optical illusion** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:40 am

Myfeckin FTO wrote:Oh dear!

Shane, you're just jealous coz you've never had a 425bhp type R like me.

In all seriousness though, if you bought the car and didn't do any research and really thought it was a type r, then you'd be the bigger idiot.

Website · by **Muad_dib77** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:53 am

I've contacted the seller and let him know the error of his ways..

It's a GPX, no more no less...

by **Mustang** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:07 am

Muad_dib77 wrote:
It's a GPX, no more no less...

Well it's a GPX with a version R sticker, so It's slightly more than just a GPX

Website · by **Muad_dib77** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:39 am

Ah yes - not to forget the added strut-brace also..

by **Myfeckin FTO** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 1:36 pm

optical illusion wrote:
Myfeckin FTO wrote:Oh dear!

Shane, you're just jealous coz you've never had a 425bhp type R like me.

In all seriousness though, if you bought the car and didn't do any research and really thought it was a type r, then you'd be the bigger idiot.

"VERSION R" Laura (not Type R) - Type R's are Hondas.
Repeat 10 times - "Laura drives a Version R"

If you feck up again you'll be writing lines! :lol:

Website · by **Muad_dib77** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 2:05 pm

Yer man just emailed me these..

Looks like somebody replaced the spoiler..or something... I don't know..

by **optical illusion** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 2:56 pm

Myfeckin FTO wrote:
"VERSION R" Laura (not Type R) - Type R's are Hondas.
Repeat 10 times - "Laura drives a Version R"

If you feck up again you'll be writing lines!

YES I KNOW!!! I was just playing along....!

Note to all on the forum, I've discovered a way to rise Shane...

Repeat 10 times - TYPE R!!!!

by **Bernard** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 4:29 pm

Mustang wrote: it has a tyre R sticker on it, he thinks no more of it, and assumes it's a tyre R of some kind. Hardly make him an idiot

In fairness, He's aiming it at people who know, on a site for people who are into cars, not A to B machines.

David Morris wrote:FOR THE PURIST AND PERFECTIONIST

And the sticker does actually say Version R, no mistake there.

by **colm_mcm** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:15 am

a feckin tiptronic GPVR with a GPX spoiler? collectors item?
(the supposedly lightweight version that's actually heavier than a manual GPX!)

no offence chris

by **Mustang** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 9:27 am

Type R, Version R. It may be neither. but no need to be so anal people.
I know it's cold outside, but leave the anoraks at home. Any outsider looking at this thread must be thinking "what a crowd of sad car bores" seriously people take a reality check. :smt079

by **Myfeckin FTO** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:18 am

optical illusion wrote:...........
Note to all on the forum, I've discovered a way to rise Shane...

Repeat 10 times - TYPE R!!!!

Don't you have a G force meter problem that you need to be solving?

by **Bernard** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 3:57 pm

Well, this anal, anorak wearing, computer nerd / sad car bore just thought he'd point it out. What with it being an FTO forum and all. :!:

by **Myfeckin FTO** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:32 pm

I'd like to point out that I haven't worn an anorak since Junior Infants!
As for an anal "sad car bore" - guilty as charged.
:lol:

by **optical illusion** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:11 am

Bernard wrote:Well, this anal, anorak wearing, computer nerd / sad car bore just thought he'd point it out. What with it being an FTO forum and all.

MEOW!!!

It would be an even more anal if we couldn't talk about what we wanted in this world...

by **Marie** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 9:52 am

Ice cold air conditioning? This interests me, I thought in a car as old as most FTO's ice cold was medium warm no?

Website · by **Muad_dib77** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 10:27 am

"What's cooler than being cold?"

The trick is to get the AirCon Gas topped up.. alternatively as we're in ireland you could also opt for opening the window...that'd get you ice cold on most days..

The Irish Mitsubishi FTO Owners Club

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