THE STARION STORY

Most Japanese cars like everything in Japanese culture is derived from some sort of natural form and function which usually lends to the name of their cars. For a few of Mitsubishi’s sportier models there has been a link to horses for example the famous hot hatch the COLT and the ECLIPSE named after a famous race horse. But out of all these models the most famous, the most aggressive and the most beautiful of them all is and will always be the STARION.

This was Mitsubishi’s answer to the wave of Japanese fastbacks that were dominating the 80’s. The Trueno’s, Supra’s, Z’s and Savannah’s to name a few. Widebody, turbocharged, LAMBDA chassis, this was one of Mitsubishi’s rare shining moments. Probably why it was named after the Greek Horse Arion who was to be an awesome Greek mythological horse. Fortunately, the Starion is very real.