1990 Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX review from North America

Problems the car had already when I bought it:

Head gasket blown

Exhaust manifold gasket blown

Ball joints shot

Turbo leaking oil

Fuel gauge not working

A/C not working

Syncs for first gear shot

Burned oil

Rear hatch shocks shot.

Problems after I had most of the previous fixed:

Alternator died on the way home from the shop after having thousand of dollars worth of work done..

Radiator exploded days later

Differential exploded. (This was the point I decided the car was costing me more than it was worth and traded it in for 500 bucks off a '99 S10)

I bought this car for cheap knowing it had a lot of work that needed to be done to get it running good again. Like most GS-X's it was owned by some idiot that probably ragged on it all the time so it was in bad shape. I hoped I would be able to fix the problems and have a nice good running GSX, but the car was just falling apart. I didn't feel comfortable driving anywhere due to the fear of it breaking down on me. Which it did many times in the month or two I owned it. I don't know whether to put the blame on the previous owner or Mitsubishi with my experience, but I've heard a lot of people say these cars are problematic. I've also had several friends who owned Eclipses and all of them had major problems. I guess the idea of a cheap fast car is just too good to be true.