Galant

This Mitsubishi nameplate began in 1969 as the Colt Galant, introduced in Japan as the first car to carry the Galant badge. Over time it grew from a compact sedan line into a broader family of passenger cars that reflected Mitsubishi’s changing market strategy and engineering priorities. Early Galants established the model’s identity as a stylish, mainstream family car, while later generations moved the badge into more upscale, larger, and more technically advanced territory. The lineage also spawned notable offshoots and performance-focused variants, including the Galant GTO and Galant FTO coupes, the Galant Σ era in the 1970s and early 1980s, and the later turbocharged and all-wheel-drive Galant VR-4, which became especially significant in Mitsubishi’s motorsport story. In its final years, the Galant name was used on a midsize sedan sold in North America before production ended after the 2012 model year. The result was one of Mitsubishi’s longest-running passenger-car nameplates, spanning multiple eras of the company’s history without a documented production revival.