Which BMW is the 8g patterned after?

[keithert]

I can't tell which BMW the 8g looks more like. Is it the 3 series or the 5 series?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(keithert)</div><div class='quotemain'>I can't tell which BMW the 8g looks more like. Â*Is it the 3 series or the 5 series?</div>
uh...um...

Your car...well you see, it has...well, nothing--absolutely nothing--to do with a BMW. Nothing at all.

If I had to pick, I'd say 5-series, because it's a car meant to be driven as a sedan. Nobody should drive 4 door 3-series', they're meant to have 2 doors and a 333hp I6 https://www.thegalantcenter.org/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif

[DarkLateNight]

especially since beemer is a bike right?

[Serstylz2]

:retard:

[kamilw]

Well, I think there are some styling cues on our Gs from BMW, but they are subtle. Styling of a ~2000 3 and 5 is similar, but sizewise 8g is closer to 5 series from that time (looking at lenght, since width of 5 and 3 were actually very close). Just my .02

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(keithert)</div><div class='quotemain'>I can't tell which BMW the 8g looks more like. Â*Is it the 3 series or the 5 series?</div>

[BIGMONEYDAY]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(DarkLateNight)</div><div class='quotemain'>especially since beemer is a bike right?</div>
I'm going to help you out a little there man, so the guys don't kick you outta this club...lol Yes, beamer is what most people call BMW's and they do make motorcycles too. So that's what you meant by saying that right?...(just say yes)

Anyway moving right along, I've always thought that the Mitsu design department "copied of the BMW's homework" back in 99 when they changed the body, primarily cause no other Japanese car looke as "Euro" as it did. And even the marketing at the dealerships had 3-series BMW posters on their walls with the slogan of "having the same style, but saving $10K". One dealership actually had several bimmers on the lot and parked a Galant in the middle to show how similar they were in styling. But if I had to judge which series it "most" closely looked like, I would say a 3 series on hormones or a fictious "4 series", the styling of a 3-series but well suited to be a "sports sedan" like the 5 series.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(BIGMONEYDAY)</div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(DarkLateNight)</div><div class='quotemain'>especially since beemer is a bike right?</div>
I'm going to help you out a little there man, so the guys don't kick you outta this club...lol Yes, beamer is what most people call BMW's and they do make motorcycles too. So that's what you meant by saying that right?...(just say yes)</div>
Uh-oh. Don't make corrections like that that aren't completely true. https://www.thegalantcenter.org/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif
"Beamer" is not the same as a "Bimmer."

[RED2KESV6]

I parked right next to a ~2000 5 series one day. I was amazed to see that Mitsu had perfectly copied the ENTIRE greenhouse (roof, windows, pillars) from that car. Plus the rear end looks pretty similar, too

[ryans99es2.4]

yea, the tails are pretty much the same shape. the grille's are almost the same shape, i swear i could (but i won't) shave off mitsu badges and get me some bmw badges and bmw wheels, people would think it's a bmw, they'd have to look hard to see it's a mitsu, but it's true.

[BIGMONEYDAY]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(scootinintegra)</div><div class='quotemain'>
Uh-oh. Don't make corrections like that that aren't completely true. https://www.thegalantcenter.org/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif
"Beamer" is not the same as a "Bimmer."</div>

LOL...Ok how bout we just say "B-mer" as a catch all?... https://www.thegalantcenter.org/style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif

[Auto-9]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(BIGMONEYDAY)</div><div class='quotemain'>a fictious "4 series", the styling of a 3-series but well suited to be a "sports sedan" like the 5 series.</div>

Which will be very real in the near future, taking the place of the 3 series coupe.

I forgot which BMW the Galant most resembled, but I remember comparing the dimensions on paper and it was very similar.

[Censee]

yea i remember when i saw the 8g in early 99 late 98 i coulda sworn it was a bmw,,,,the back was almost exactly the same.....thats what made me want one.... https://www.thegalantcenter.org/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif

[Strahan]

I used to always correct people who talk about their "beamer" cars but have given up long ago hehe. They get confused when I tell them I had an R75/5 beamer and a 525i bimmer heh.

[sj420]

especially since beemer is a bike right?
I'm going to help you out a little there man, so the guys don't kick you outta this club...lol Yes, beamer is what most people call BMW's and they do make motorcycles too. So that's what you meant by saying that right?...(just say yes)
Uh-oh. Don't make corrections like that that aren't completely true. https://www.thegalantcenter.org/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif
"Beamer" is not the same as a "Bimmer."

thank you someone had to say it

[galantv600]

its based throght the 5 series and 3 series cars... mix of all and size. between 5 and 3 series. we are larger than 3 but smaller than 5 8)

[2000GTZ]

funny, most of my friends thought the galant was a bmw at first. then they realized it was a mitsubishi and asked what is a galant.

[ksdprasad]

anybody is having photos with bmw and galant side by side..... ?

[galantv600]

i know somone can photoshop it for us...

[2000GTZ]

http://homepage1.nifty.com/mobiuse/jpeg/galant.jpg
http://www.totobmw.co.jp/a-car/image/car/1219_02.jpg

[hot_boy689]

Yeah, if I had a dollar for everytime someone asked me if my car was a bmw, I'd be able to pay it off

[Fall Out Boy]

i actually sometimes confuse the rear of a Lincoln LS to a Galant.

[GPTourer]

I'd say it started with the Diamante, though when the 2G came out in, 1996 as a 97 model. The Galant was kind of a remix of the BMW-esque style that the D had already started.

[pinoyesv6]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(GPTourer)</div><div class='quotemain'>I'd say it started with the Diamante, though when the 2G came out in, 1996 as a 97 model. The Galant was kind of a remix of the BMW-esque style that the D had already started.</div>

the first model year for the 2g diamante was in 1995. we have to remember that the 9g galant was the first galant that was designed from MMUSA. the previous generations of galant and the diamante were designed by the guys in japan...

with the diamante in mind...doesn't this kinda look like the old 5 and 7 series??

http://www.mitsubishi-motors.co.jp/docs6/history/img/pages/sigma/90dia.jpg


http://www.mitsubishi-motors.co.jp/docs6/history/img/pages/sigma/90sigma.jpg

[GPTourer]

No, the 2G definitely came out in 1997 and will end with this year's 2004.
That was the 1G you pictured.

http://www.diamanteowners.com/forum/ ('http://www.diamanteowners.com/forum/')

I was referring to the 2G, but I don't deny the BMW-esque cues of the first one either:

http://webpages.charter.net/gptourer/2gdia.JPG

[pinoyesv6]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(GPTourer)</div><div class='quotemain'>No, the 2G definitely came out in 1997 and will end with this year's 2004.
That was the 1G you pictured.

http://www.diamanteowners.com/forum/ ('http://www.diamanteowners.com/forum/')

I was referring to the 2G, but I don't deny the BMW-esque cues of the first one either:

http://webpages.charter.net/gptourer/2gdia.JPG</div>

first of all i know what the 1g looks like. i posted it to show how it looks like a bmw also. i should know what a 1g diamante looks like since my car actually has parts from it...

but yea go on the boards, ask them when the diamante was first produced. they'll agree with me. here's a link of my own http://www.mitsubishi-motors.co.jp/docs6/h.../html/sigma.htm ('http://www.mitsubishi-motors.co.jp/docs6/history/html/sigma.htm') im pretty sure mitsubishi would know what year the first 2g was produced, they're the one who built it.

http://www.mitsubishi-motors.co.jp/docs6/history/img/pages/sigma/sigdia.jpg

[GPTourer]

No need to get snippy. :wink:

I thought we were talking about the U.S. The link you posted is from the JDM site. You do realize we don't always get things the same time the rest of the world does, right? As far as Galants go, right now we got the 9G first, the rest of the world is still using the 8G body style. The 8G Galant style, for instance, came out in like '96. Look at this link for a New Zealand '96 vr-4:

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/C...on-18088896.htm ('http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Cars/Mitsubishi/auction-18088896.htm')

In the United States of America, the 2G Diamante (not Sigma, Verada, Magna) came out in MY1997.

Just go on autorader.com and do a search for '96 and '97 Diamantes and you will see what I mean.

[pinoyesv6]

Why would we be talking about the US?? did the people from MMUSA design the 8g? ov course not. they took the jdm 8g and did some minor restyling to it and dropped in their own american powerplant.

there is big doubt that there will be a 9g JDM galant. with all the trouble that mitsubishi is having financially.

but yea, most of the countries that used to sell galants don't.

there isn't anymore vr-4

the current jdm galant has a GDI 2000 motor which is a 2.0L DOHC motor. 4wd is optional on the current jdm galant.

taiwan had a failed attempt to redesign the 8g galant. after that attempt production of the galant stopped.

the 1g galant was released in 1969.

i know about the galant and its history. not only in the US but from many parts of the world...

[GPTourer]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(pinoyesv6)</div><div class='quotemain'>Why would we be talking about the US??</div>
Umm, why not. This is a US board with primarily US members. You didn't point out that you meant MY1995 for the Japanese, so how should anyone know what you meant?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'> did the people from MMUSA design the 8g? </div>
Irrelevant. The 9G was designed by Americans, so was the Eclipse. Mitsubishi has a design studio in America, as well as overseas. How do you know there weren't Americans involved in the 7G or 8G?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'> there isn't anymore vr-4 </div>
Okay, so? That has nothing to do with the shape of the car, I was just pointing out that MY's are not global.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>the current jdm galant has a GDI 2000 motor which is a 2.0L DOHC motor. 4wd is optional on the current jdm galant. Â*
taiwan had a failed attempt to redesign the 8g galant. after that attempt production of the galant stopped. Â*
the 1g galant was released in 1969. Â*
i know about the galant and its history. not only in the US but from many parts of the world... Â*</div>

Again, that's all well and good - no one was calling your knowledge into question. All I'm saying is, when you are talking about Diamantes, and Galants, and a 2000 BMW 5 series gets referenced in the same thread amongst a bunch of Americans - it should be safe to assume that MY1997 refers to a USDM car. If that's not the case, then okay you win.