The Mitsubishi Colt 800 is a 2-door fastback / 3-door liftback / 4-door fastback / 3-door wagon/van / 2-door coupé utility/pickup from Mitsubishi, built from 1965 to 1971, in the decade that gave the world the pony car and the mid-engined supercar. Under the bonnet: 843 . Tsutomu Ieda, Munetaro Shigehiro, Ryu Kaibuchi drew it.
The story
The Mitsubishi Colt 800 is the first of a series of passenger cars with a fastback/hatchback design produced by Mitsubishi Motors from November 1965. It was introduced as a two-door fastback sedan, the first such design in the Japanese market. The series was discontinued in 1971, after the introduction of the company's Galant sedan but without a real replacement.
What is underneath
Power comes from 843 other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. The wheelbase is 2200 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Nissan Silvia, the Ford Transit, the Ford Bronco — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Mitsubishi catalogue sit the Mitsubishi Lancer and the Mitsubishi 360.
What it costs now
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the Mitsubishi Colt 800 has none: too old, too rare, or never sold there. Its value today is a collector's question, decided by provenance and condition rather than by a class average.