Well I was readin' Pop Mechanics and saw the new 4G 2006 Eclipse
It's got a mercury cougar front end with projectors, Saturn Ion meets Nissan Maxima sides with a wierd Mustang like side vent, and a Chrysler Crossfire meets Hyundai Tibouron rear.
(I'll let you make your own judgements, I think it looks like the run-of-the-mill modern day sports car...)
Here's how the models will/should pan out
RS/GS- 2.4L DOHC I4 all alum. MIVEC 190hp 6sp or 5sp auto
The engine will be shared in the 3G Stratus RT/Sebring LXi/Hyundai Tibouron. The engine is being engineered mostly in part my Mitsu... with rumors of a Mercedez (Daimler Chrysler) Tranny with RWD in the V6
GT - 3.8L SOHC V6 250 hp 6 sp or 5 sp auto
GTS - 3.8L SOHC V6 MIVEC 260 hp 6sp or 5 sp auto
The 3.8L V6 is from the Diamante/04' Galant/Montero Sport
The suspension, height and width of the car should be similar to the 3000GT/Stealth...
Very interesting to say the least... :banana:

wheres a pic?

In Popular Mechanics... I was waitin to get my hair cut, and read and saw it in the magazine :banana:

A link would be good to post up. I'll try and find one....

Another :razz2:

Last one

And everybody thought the 2g was a bubble car!

Doesn't look to bad but I don't care for the middle of the front bumper.

You guys are kidding, right? Those are pictures of the inspirational 3G show car that was out years ago. If Car and Driver's site has a cloaked version, do you really think there's going to be a car show pic of one on another site?

I think it looks quite ugly.

Those are concepts and they are ugly.

Fucking ICK!!!

Yep 3g concept car....

That car is the SSR... The false vents in the current 3G came from that car to originaly accomodate twin side mount intercoolers... That car was made in 1997 to have the 4G63 (240hp) or the 3.8 (240hp) at the time V6 optional... The new one is in the December Issue of Popular mechanics. That pic is from the July 1997 issue of Motor Trend...

sorry... correction SST

Hey your right i can see the intercoolers sweet. Wait so its the SST concept car? 3g though right?

Also do you have pictures of the new 4g? concept or not...

Yeah 3G, but some genious fuckin ruined the car... "hey let's slap a heavy ass 3.0L V6 SOHC so it's cheap to fix and fast to break, so they have to buy another later...)

LMAO... Have you really had that many problems with your 3g? I use to own a 3g GT and it was fine for the 1k miles i drove it :), Than i crashed, sold it, bought a 2g GSX, and have never been more happy :)

I'm on the 4th Tranny (my fault)... Cheap interior shared with Chrysler (Sebring and Stratus), bad brakes (proly my fault, but others have had the same problem on 03' models) and making power is impossible

i agree! that would have been cool if they did put thoses other motors in the 3g.
I like the 2G in the background the best (another way you can tell that that was a concept for the 3g cause why else would there be a 2g in the background if it was a concept for a 4g.

mabey the 4g63 will make a comeback after all!!!!! :bounce: :bounce:

Well there was a rumor that they were going to put the golden boy of turbo engines back into the beloved eclipse, making the whole thing smaller for rally to keep up with Puegot and Renault in the Rally scene, (see the Mitsu Tarmac concept)... but they instead decided to go back to a 3S style car... I've heard that they may add a "between" sized model... between the lancer and the eclipse... maybe a spinoff of the Tarmac concept.... Ironicly the 4G front end looks A LOT like the Tarmac front end... The EVO is the only car "officially" scheduled to run the 4G63 at all in the near future... too bad... :razz2:

I don't know if I can do this or not... but here's a link to the 3G website with some lil tidbits about the 4G
http://www.eclipseforums.org/forum/...threadid=126671

Link didnt work.
it would be great if the put the 4G63 back in, maybe they would fix the crankwalk issue first! LOL the 3g would have been a lot cooler with twin sidemounts, but no they suck. LOL (sorry Keil) well should we get our hopes up about mitsu actually doing us right, or prepare ourselves for another mitsu FLOP! Im not getting my hopes too high for this new one, because without Dimond Star its still not a DSM. I like my car and thats what im gonna STICK with for a while. (No hints.) LOL MUAHAHAHa

Well between Mitsu and Daimler, they're working on another alliance similar to DSM... They're sharing parts with Dodge, Chrysler, Mitsu and HYUNDAI... yes your 4g eclipse folks will be exactly the same as the Hyundai Tiburon... this should be interesting. :razz2: