Faults:

Active aero jammed (a common, and easily curable, issue with this model)

Aside from that the mechanicals are built well and strong. The only issues are slight niggles. The handbrake light flicks on and off, and that's pretty much it.

I drive it to work every day, and can honestly say I punish this car as if it was a rental. Yet, it just laughs it off. THIS is how cars should be built.

General Comments:

I have a 98 3000GT Twin Turbo. Got the dyno sheet reporting 320bhp with 325lb/ft of torque. It's totally stock aside from a complete stainless steel exhaust system, which is actually cheaper than the OEM when it comes time to replace. This is the most awesome car I have ever owned.

The acceleration, even from over 120mph, is absolutely devastating! From 0 this car will pin you to your seat right up to 80mph. The short stroke V6 engine picks up speed remarkably fast, and the turbos spool up at just 2500rpm. There is plenty of torque even before the turbines pick up speed, so you don't notice the lag too much.

Combine that with the sound of the turbos spooling, and the wastegate blowing off at the gear change and you have an incomprehensible driving experience. I have thought about selling mine many times (I rarely keep a car for longer than 6 months. Always looking for a change), and all it takes is to turn a corner and find a bit of quiet open road, putting the foot down from first gear. THAT feeling makes you fall in love with this machine all over again.

The 4wheel drive runs through a viscous coupled LSD, and all 4 wheels are steered once you go over 30mph. Handling is very good for a car weighing 1,750kg, but overall it can lurch a little on corners if you're going fast enough. This can be cured by hitting the ACS button to stiffen the suspension. The car COG is very low however, and the cornering is extremely good. There is not much that can match its ability, short of small track cars.

The interior is very simple dark leather, but very nice. The seats could be a little more comfortable, but mine do have 90k on them. Rear seats are little more than a gesture or a place to throw used parking tickets.

Cars of this size and this weight are rarely so responsive, and in fact few cars ever made can match the performance of this beast. Those that can cost far far more, and in all likelihood aren't as rugged. This was Mitsubishi's flagship car for almost a decade, and it is EVERY ounce a supercar. The company's GT space is now vacant. That's a shame because it is clear they know how to make an superlatively powerful, fast, nimble and exotic machine.

I absolutely recommend it, the only problem you will have is wondering where you go from here!

Faults:

Corroded rear steering rods, drivers side, 375GBP.

Corroded oil inter-cooler pipework round the front, 250GBP.

Stereo replaced due to sudden extreme volume changes on the old one, 200GBP.

Drivers seat worn where the seat belt rubbed.

Rear aero non-functioning and front aero cracked & worn in places.

No central locking (was there?)

General Comments:

The main things that attracted me to this car were the looks and the straight line pace for the money. Even at 8 years old, this car still looked stunning. Curves and swoops everywhere; low and wide with quad exhausts; mine was finished in the metallic mid-blue.

JDM models were held at 276bhp, but it was rumoured that the UK models were somewhere around 300-320bhp, so that is what I hunted down. Book 0-60mph was 5.7s, not sure if that was taken from the Japanese model or the UK version.

I had never experienced acceleration at that level, my last two cars were 0-60 ~ 7.5s, so I was totally blown away by how suddenly 1st gear took it to 40mph, and the howl was intoxicating! Each gear pulled that little bit less, but they all still pushed me back into the lovely armchair, hugging, leather seats.

The cabin was a very dark place to be, all in black trim, but it was big enough to not be claustrophobic. Each journey seemed like a special event. The car just made me feel good, driving it.

I was doing 300miles/20.75mpg between fill ups, 60-65GBP, during normal mixed driving, but on a motorway run with the cruise control on that went up, all the way to 500miles/34.6mpg.

I found the normal driving mode to be just fine for normal UK speeds and only really felt the need to use sport on twisty roads when pushing hard. The normal suspension did not seem to act quickly enough to contain the weight shifting around, but the sport mode performed adequately. However, I did not use this day to day as it made the car skittish on our roads.

I particularly enjoyed the overtaking ability offered by the turbos.

Things were not so good when it came to manoeuvring, as the car was so big and all the controls were rather heavy, plus it was really hard to tell the dimensions from the drivers seat.

Services were 275GBP from a main dealer.

I got rid of it in the end because I was paying for age/mileage repairs on an ever more frequent basis.

Faults:

Clutch failed. Master cylinder, slave cylinder and flexible hose all went.

Drop links worn.

Ball joints wearing.

Roll bar bushes tired.

Front suspension is wearing fast.

General Comments:

Fast. Seriously fast.

Strong. The engine feels powerful all the time.

Great looking. NOTHING turns heads like a GTO.

Back seats are a waste of time. This should have been the greatest two seater of all time!

Faults:

The active aero seems to be a problem on these cars; it seems to stick! It doesn't affect the car except in gimmick value!

The annoying thing is that it can be fixed by cleaning up the moving parts yourself in a few hours, or take it to UK dealers and they will try and stitch you up for a thousand quid!

Also, the gearbox is a bit notchy and needs some gentle care. This again seems a common fault with this motor.

General Comments:

Looks like a super-model, fast as fury, what else can I say...

This car is a must-have. It has a few niggles, but overall you just can't live without it! It's so good that I've made a web site for mine (www.3000GT.co.uk).

It's a shame the UK dealers didn't take a bit more pride in this motor, and not just try to rip the customer off for all they can!