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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVt4G7aObxA

umm...doesnt look like a GP version R...

Yeah it does. It has the red front seats and manual climate control and strut braces.

Uhh, wasn't Version R only a facelift model? Plus, it's only a 4-speed tip and Version R is 5-speed. And the dude didn't even mention GPX when he went through the model line-up. What an idiot.

he thought he was drving the GP version R as well..lol

Thats a bit of a mixture by the looks of things. The strut braces are Version R braces, as are the seats (although the red seats only came out in a black version R). If it has stock LSD, then its either version R or car of the year (yellow + respray) or LSD also came as an option. On the other hand, it is prefacelift. Version R didnt come out in prefacelift. not sure about the GP. Didnt think it did either. Maybe it as had a pre-facelift front put on. It should be 5 speed tip if its version R as well. The wing is the other anomoly. It doesnt have the version R wing on it. It has a GPX wing. My guess is it is a GPX with a couple of Version R bits added to it. Quite funny that they did the article on that. Proof of mis-advertising no matter which way you look at it.

He's got what I have

It's pre facelift GP version R

dstocks wrote:Thats a bit of a mixture by the looks of things. The strut braces are Version R braces, as are the seats (although the red seats only came out in a black version R). If it has stock LSD, then its either version R or car of the year (yellow + respray) or LSD also came as an option. On the other hand, it is prefacelift. Version R didnt come out in prefacelift. not sure about the GP. Didnt think it did either. Maybe it as had a pre-facelift front put on. It should be 5 speed tip if its version R as well. The wing is the other anomoly. It doesnt have the version R wing on it. It has a GPX wing. My guess is it is a GPX with a couple of Version R bits added to it. Quite funny that they did the article on that. Proof of mis-advertising no matter which way you look at it.

it's like the one here: http://www.versionr.com/

It's a GP which is basically a pre facelift version R like mine

Differences with mine from a GPX:
- manual air con
- momo airbag wheel
- blue seats
- stock ralliart rear strut brace
- stock ralliart exhaust

OK, well there you go. Ive learnt something. Thatll be a GP though not a version R I think (Do you have an original version R badge on your car?) . The first batch of them were called a GP, not a GP Version R. You may well be able to correct me on this as well, but pretty certain the actual Version R label was released with the facelift.

dstocks wrote:OK, well there you go. Ive learnt something. Thatll be a GP though not a version R I think (Do you have an original version R badge on your car?) . The first batch of them were called a GP, not a GP Version R. You may well be able to correct me on this as well, but pretty certain the actual Version R label was released with the facelift.

didn't have any badges but I believe it was only GP. haven't checked to see whether or not they have a LSD either

how do i know if i have the optional LSD without 'trying' it on a corner? coz even if i did fishtail it, i wouldnt know at all

Gholdwayne wrote:how do i know if i have the optional LSD without 'trying' it on a corner? coz even if i did fishtail it, i wouldnt know at all

jack the front of your car up and see if the wheels turn the same way.


i though the GP was the first of the facelifts?

SchumieFan wrote:

Gholdwayne wrote:how do i know if i have the optional LSD without 'trying' it on a corner? coz even if i did fishtail it, i wouldnt know at all

jack the front of your car up and see if the wheels turn the same way.


i though the GP was the first of the facelifts?

what ?! is that it? so you mean to say, with LSD each front wheel wont spin independently but they are connected ? i thought lsd was for the rear wheels ?

Haha, well the FTO doesn't get power to the rear wheels does it...
Hence the LSD is on the front wheels

well im still really in the bottom of the technical knowledge scene, anyway, so basically i'll jack it up, if i spin one of the front wheels, the other will spin with it like they're connected ?

Still... I like the learning going here

Every day's a school day in FTO Aus!

SchumieFan wrote:

Gholdwayne wrote:how do i know if i have the optional LSD without 'trying' it on a corner? coz even if i did fishtail it, i wouldnt know at all

jack the front of your car up and see if the wheels turn the same way.


i though the GP was the first of the facelifts?

From my research the GP only came in pre facelifts

yup, as in... no such thing as a pre-facelift GPR

SchumieFan wrote:yup, as in... no such thing as a pre-facelift GPR

but if you think about it the GP is essentially a GPvR minus the aero bits

it could be a GP, but my moneys on GPX... and i was thinking of the GX when i said first of the FL's

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_FTO

SchumieFan wrote:it could be a GP, but my moneys on GPX... and i was thinking of the GX when i said first of the FL's

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_FTO

I thought so at first but I'm pretty sure it's a GP

That car is basically identical to what I have as well as the one here: http://www.versionr.com/

right down to the exhaust as well
I doubt there would be like a few cars all identical in specs to make it a GPX espescially the manual fan controls too