This Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 Wagon For Sale Is The Ultimate JDM Winter Ripper - The Drive

The Japanese import market is getting much absorbing by the year. Interesting stuff is flowing onto our shores for the archetypal time, and this Mitsubishi Legnum VR-4 is perchance 1 of the most obscure cars successful Facebook radical Obscure Cars for Sale I’ve seen. And I deliberation it’s a reasonably chill proposition to ain thing unique.

With the doorway to 2023 opening up, much and much weird Japanese imports volition beryllium allowed successful nether our 25-year rule. Next year, 1998 exemplary cars unfastened up, which means lower-tier R34 Nissan Skylines could beryllium imported legally. This means the boring basal worldly is allowed, but the much breathtaking 25GT Turbo is eligible. It’s a rear-wheel-drive 280-horsepower R34 that could beryllium a truly neat alternate choice. But backmost successful the onshore of Mitsubishi, the 1998 Lancer Evolution V volition beryllium eligible. 

This Legnum VR-4 wagon, known to astir of america arsenic a Galant, got imported arsenic a 1997 exemplary successful 2022. It’s a beauteous neat car packed with a batch of exertion and has the unsocial favoritism of being a Japanese Car of the Year edition, which the seller claims determination are lone 1,200 made. It doesn’t travel with galore extras compared to a mean Legnum VR-4 but does get a Nardi steering instrumentality and a badge.

Since this was the last procreation of Galant VR-4, Mitsubishi pulled immoderate neat tricks from the Lancer Evo. Most notably, the blase Active Yaw Control and rear differential exertion that made the Evo a existent handler. At 3,400 lbs, the Legnum VR-4 was nary lightweight, though is comparatively airy by today’s standards. By comparison, an Evo V was 2,800 lbs. 

It looks well-kept and precise clean. With a claimed 75,000 miles, the $14,000 that the seller is asking doesn’t look excessively acold disconnected the mark, though the automatic transmission deserves immoderate punishment points. For a chill wintertime wagon, I don’t deliberation you tin find overmuch else.