The Irish Mitsubishi FTO Owners Club

does anyone know what is the bhp of a 95 1.8 gs tip .ive heard lots of different estimates and they are all miles apart .all ins companies class the fto as a high performance car and thats why the ins hurts so much

cheers lads and lassies

j

tried 123.ie about a month ago and was told that they wont insure an fto.insurance companies give me a severe pain in the rear , you get a different person every time and a different answer every time.they just dont like FTOs or it could be just me they dont like

cheers anyway

j

there's a few threads on insurance on this forum ..have you seen them?

dikdastardly wrote:does anyone know what is the bhp of a 95 1.8 gs tip .ive heard lots of different estimates and they are all miles apart .all ins companies class the fto as a high performance car and thats why the ins hurts so much

cheers lads and lassies

j

According to my original Japanese facelift FTO catalogue, 2L is 180bhp, 2L mivec is 200bhp and 1.8 is 125bhp. Haven't a clue what most of it says but there's some english words under pictures and the numbers are the same luckily!

Those are flywheel figures of course, a tip is going to have less at the wheels than a manual.

Should have mentioned, I know the facelift 2Ls added 10bhp but I dunno if that applies to the 1.8GS, I'm thinking no?

I know the facelift 2Ls added 10bhp but I dunno if that applies to the 1.8GS, I'm thinking no?

Correct, no change in facelift GS power, 125PS as standard.

dikdastardly, I used to drive a GS a few years back, when I found out that my premium wouldn't go up in the event that I changed to a V6 model, I went out sharpish and picked me up a GPX

I don't know if all insurance companies still group all models of FTO together these days, I would guess there would be very little difference if in the quotes if they did.

CJ

some insurance companies do and some don't! i know AXA who i'm with differeniate between them...

and yep only 125bhp

Dave wrote:some insurance companies do and some don't! i know AXA who i'm with differeniate between them...

and yep only 125bhp

I wouldn't say only... 125bhp is still a fair bit if you compare it to other cars you can get for similar money..
My old civic was rated at 115bhp or 119 depending on where I looked..it was a big heavy car (saloon) but it was still able to move...

I agree it's not bad, but when you compare it to the V6's it's way down and a car that looks this 125bhp is a bit