Strip the Mitsubishi Dignity back to its specification sheet and the character is already there: Petrol engine, 280 PS. Mitsubishi built from 1999 to 2016, when airbags, anti-lock brakes and Japanese build quality became the world standard.
The background
The Mitsubishi Dignity (Japanese: 三菱・ディグニティ, Hepburn: Mitsubishi Diguniti) is a full-size luxury car originally manufactured by Mitsubishi Motors from late 1999 to 2001 as the flagship of the company's domestic range, alongside the shorter Proudia, and was reintroduced 2012 to Japanese buyers as a rebadged fifth-generation Nissan Cima. The Dignity was discontinued for the second time in 2016.
In Japan, it was sold at a specific retail chain called Galant Shop. The name "Dignity" was used to describe the "peerless grandeur and majestic stateliness" of the model.
The engineering
The engine is Petrol engine; the output is 280 PS; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. On the scales it comes to 2370 kg. That is roughly 118 horsepower per tonne: brisk everyday performance. Drive goes through a 5-speed INVECS-II automatic. The wheelbase is 3080 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
In the Mitsubishi line-up the Mitsubishi Dignity has a clear place: it replaced the Mitsubishi Debonair; the factory was Okazaki, Aichi (Nagoya Plant), Japan. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Porsche 911 GT3, the GMC Envoy, the Lamborghini Murciélago. Its Mitsubishi stablemates include the Mitsubishi Lancer and the Mitsubishi 360.