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hey, I'll pop in to my glovebox and look at the weight on my Lancer's registration later today. We're doing some yardwork so I'll check it out a tad later. Kind of interesting, though, I forget what the press has said my '08 Lancer GTS weighs. That shouldn't be hard to find online with all of the reviews I've bookmarked on the '08 Lancer in my 'Favorites.' I'll check it out and get back on here to let you know. I know that the day before yesterday we drove to Sierra Vista, AZ, and it was very windy on the freeway. The Lancer GTS held tight to the road and didn't even start to blow off track. A side attribute to weighing a bit more is steady tracking in blustery winds. |
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I hopped in to my Lancer GTS and grabbed my vehicle registration and...it didn't have my Lancer's weight listed! Why not, I ask? You may ask, too. I looked on the driver's door sill and I got what my Lancer's tire pressure is supposed to be: 32 p.s.i. Ok, kinda knew that already. I looked in my Lancer's manual and they also don't list my '08 Lancer GTS' weight! They do, however list what the GVVR weigh is, and, when I subtract the maximum passenger weight from that weight I get 3,252 lbs. I then went to all the online articles I've bookmarked and to some others I Googled. Here are some interesting weights from the reviewer's articles on the 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer GTS. Car Connection says it's curb weight is 3,032 lbs. Autobytel and Edmunds say the Japanese compact's curb weight is 3,109 lbs. Road and Track says 2,999 lbs.! Motor Trend lists the curb weight as 3,032 lbs., which matches what Edmunds and Car Connection says. So, in conclusion, I can say my 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer GTS weighs approximately 3, 085 lbs. That is computed by adding all the weights up and dividing by the number of sources sought and found. What is perplexing is why my vehicle registration doesn't list the car's weight. Isn't that something you can count on, like death, taxes and an occasional Led Zeppelin reunion tour? Well, I'll find out soon because March 2008 is my license renewal month and hopefully the new paperwork will show the '08 Lancer GTS' weight. From looking at these numbers it appears the press got conflicting numbers. But since my initial vehicle registration does not show my car's weight on it I can't make a complete comparison. 
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Replying to: iluvmysephia1 (Feb 17, 2008 10:42 am) I hate it when I let my obsessive nature drag other people into my nuttiness. I'm sorry I've got you running around looking up weights now too.  So you can sleep tonight I have a few figures for your Lancer from Edmunds. GTS auto--3109 GTS manual--3032 DE auto 2999 DE manual--2922 It seems that there are differences in weight depending on trim and optional equipment. Seems Edmunds was using the GTS and Road and Track was talking about the DE. I couldn't find a similar reason for my Eclipse numbers. Maybe the published figures are for a loaded up model with a sunroof and other gizmos mine doesn't have. I guess I'll just call Mitsu up and bug them. Then again, maybe I won't. I like the idea of my car weighing 150 pounds less. That'll make it FEEL faster. 
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Replying to: iluvmysephia1 (Feb 15, 2008 9:45 am) 
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Replying to: toomanyfumes (Feb 17, 2008 4:12 pm) I was going to mention that especially since my dad served in the Pacific during WW II but then again General Motors factory in Germany made tanks for Hitler. |
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now it'll get me looking at my vehicle registration in March to see if my Lancer GTS' vehicle weight is listed. Nuttin' wrong with that.  Perhaps I bought my Lancer GTS last March too early for the state of Arizona to have entered the car's weight in their computer system yet, dunno. |
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Just read the Edmunds article about Mitsu's new electric car. 0-60 in under 9 seconds. That's pretty fast for an electric car. Sounds like it might make a good urban commuter car. Especially if there are recharge plugs at work. I'm thinking most people drive less than 25 miles to work, maybe drive out a short distance to lunch at noon and then drive less than 25 miles back home. Add in a few extra miles on the way home for shopping and you probably don't do more than 60 miles a day. With a practical range of 80 miles the i MIEV just might work. Of course it might be a real winner if the US gov't gave a 50% tax credit like the Japanese.
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Replying to: oldfarmer50 (Feb 22, 2008 9:57 am) More supply + less demand =lower prices. Correct? Personally I don't think that once the electric car is a proven product it will ever go away. It is simply to efficient and practical, especially in an urban environment, for people to completely return to all-fuel vehicles. I think most people will have one or two of each. I plan on getting a Miev ASAP when they become available in the U.S. I don't figure on using it to travel on vacations or haul pigs to market but it will be the get-grocery-pick-up-kids-see-movie-do-whatever vehicle. If the electric vehicle battery technology can improve even half as quickly as something like computer chip technology has done then the inner city is going to be seriously quiet in about ten years. A decently priced, reliable all-electric vehicle combined with mass production capability and an existing dealership structure... Can't wait.
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Replying to: elgatoloco (Feb 22, 2008 9:16 pm) Where I live there are two companies working on what may be the replacement technology for the internal combustion engine; fuel cells. One company has fuel cell back-up electric generators (big) and the other is developing fuel cell batteries for computers and phones (small). The next step is to develop hydrogen fuel cell engines for cars. Honda has already started a program for this. It would be nice to have cars you could run basicly on water and give the finger to the oil cartels. |
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