Mitsubishi Lancer CG/CH

That's right folks, this car is pushing on 15 years old and has NEVER broken down (except for a few times when I accidentally left the lights on).

I don't know what they made this thing out of, because it is RESILIENT.

It's been used to transport a 2.5 person kayak on the motorway. It's traveled from one side of Australia to the other. It's helped me move the entire contents of my house in one go - twice. It's gone off road (despite not being designed for it) and had no problems. It's been in 2 accidents. It's hit a large kangaroo. Still run...Read more

I originally bought this car in 2004 brand new for use in Sales to service customer inquires, at the time i narrowed it down to just 2 manufacturers cars, i was deciding between a 04 4cyl Camry Sportivo and the Lancer CH VRX wagon, but the deciding factors was the space inside/ versatility and the 10 yr warranty that Mitsubishi Motors offered at the time.

I used this car in sales for the first 10 yrs of its life, stopping and starting the car aprox 12-15 times a day continuously for 10 yrs. (50,000 to 60,000 starts!) the orig plan was to tra...Read more

I bought this car as a used car which was used for 3 years. This car has a good enough engine 2.4 liters and can be controlled four windows and side mirrors by a driver. Also, it has a little bigger legroom comparing similar cars.
I have been using this car for 8 years and recording all history of repairing and maintenances. As a result, this car's average fuel efficiency is 9.3 L/ 100Km. No big issues until now and timing belt was changed about 110,000 Km. Michelin tyres are very helpful to improve this car's driving performance and cornerin...Read more

I bought a CH Velocity new after shopping the small/med sized car market at the time.

I test drove and compared pretty much everything at the time. The euro contenders - golf, astra, 307, focus were varying degrees of unreliable, under-powered or way too expensive buy and maintain. The Koreans were still just on the end of their cheap and nasty phase, and the Japanese - Mazda3, corolla, Tiida, Civic, SX4 and Impreza while all reliable cars, couldn't match the lancer on equipment, performance, or warranty for the money (note: this lancer was ...Read more

I purchased my CE manual Lancer coupe in April 2001 and has been a great car. Parts and car services were very reasonable and economic. Handling is great and parking in almost any spot. Performance is satisfactory but mine has a sports air filter, sports exhaust and short shifter kit. Cheap to fill petrol up but would never put e10 in it.
Build quality is also satisfactory and has adequate instrumentation (being the updated model with tacho on dash)
Even tho the back seats does have limited space some other cars like my mates 318is 98 model ...Read more

I bought this vehicle second hand in 2011 and drove it numerous times between Adelaide and the eastern outskirts of Melbourne (probably about 15 times).
I drive the vehicle daily and to this date, it has never let me down. It has plenty of power and is really easy to drive. I have never had any mishaps in the vehicle as the placement of rear view mirrors and the design is brilliant (unlike some other cars I've owned, I've gone to change lanes and ended up a bit red faced as I could not see very well).
Parts and servicing are cheap, and easy t...Read more

I bought this car back in 2007 for $24990 brand new. The car has 77,000km on the clock.
From outside, it would look like yet another boring Japanese sedan. The inside layout is simple and low tech compared to what we see in cars today. But I bought this baby, because of her 4G69 engine!
This version has Mitsubishi's SOHC 2.4L engine producing 115KW @5400 rpm and 220Nm of torque @4000 rpm. (In Australia we actually received the slightly detuned version because of the poor quality fuel we have). @3500 rpm, the powertrain control module fully o...Read more

With the rise of the SUV and an overload of hatchbacks has come the demise of a much loved all purpose vehicle, the wagon, $40,000 subarus notwithstanding. Okay, $30,000 was still a lot of money for a new wagon (now about $12-15,000) but the CH VRX 2.4 is so far in front of its mid 2000 peers its not funny. Head turning looks, the best suspension I have seen from a non- performance 4cyl car, 5 seats and a good boot, and that motor! 100kph in second and 145 kph in 3rd (manual) shows how willing it is. With the factory Yokohama advans it is an aw...Read more