The Irish Mitsubishi FTO Owners Club

by JD » Thu Jun 24, 2004 7:54 pm

Can anyone tell me why the labels on everything (the buttons etc,) in the FTO are in english - wasn't this a Jap car, which was manufactured for the Jap market - so why isn't everything in the car in japanese?

JD

by CJ » Fri Jun 25, 2004 8:43 am

JD wrote:Can anyone tell me why the labels on everything (the buttons etc,) in the FTO are in english - wasn't this a Jap car, which was manufactured for the Jap market - so why isn't everything in the car in japanese?

Good question. I know that all road signs in Japan are bilingual, maybe it was a cultural decision?

CJ

by **Mustang** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 12:30 pm

When I saw that header I was expecting some smart comments about last nights soccer results

Getting back to the subject in question, I had wondered about the english language labels in the car too :?:

by **Ivan E** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 1:57 pm

Same here. I post regularly over on a Liverpool Fc forum and the arguments over the disallowed goal are rumbling on and on.....

by **Speedyboy** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 2:05 pm

I seen a Toyota Soarer once and a lot of the inside including the trip computer was in Japanese. But most imports seem to have english controls

by **soc** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 12:20 pm

Speedyboy wrote:I seen a Toyota Soarer once and a lot of the inside including the trip computer was in Japanese. But most imports seem to have english controls

and the sun visor on on my GR has a load of jap writing on the back or it.....

by **soc** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 12:21 pm

shane wrote:and the sun visor on on my GR has a load of jap writing on the back or it.....

come to think of it so does the little sticker with the tyre pressures that's on the drivers door piller

by **mark** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 12:45 pm

Or it could be the fact that "English" is the international "business" language?

by **Ivan E** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 6:39 pm

I was left for dead by one of those Soarers once. It was ahead of me at traffic lights and it just took off. Surprised at how quick it was but I suppose it does have a 2.5l engine. Pretty nice car.

by **Speedyboy** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 8:36 am

I was left for dead by one of those Soarers once. It was ahead of me at traffic lights and it just took off. Surprised at how quick it was but I suppose it does have a 2.5l engine. Pretty nice car.

I was reading that they have two turbo's kicks in a low rpm the other at high rpm to give a smoooth power delivery and no turbo lag,

Nice

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