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I bought this car with 170,000 miles on it so I've just recently began finishing fixing it.
Timing belts, serpentine belts, spark plugs and wires all replaced in 60k tune up.
Broke shift linkage to transmission second day I owned it.
Stock clutch went out a month after I bought it. I replaced it with an XTD stage 3 racing clutch (for GTPro 357 turbos '17g')
Brakes had to be replaced, replaced them with drilled and slotted rotors.
Nothing else really, great car for the mileage.
I love this car. I race it late at night from stop light to stop light with whoever dares challenge me. I've only ever lost once and that was to a Mustang Saleen S281 the first night I got my car which, at the time, was missing in 3 cylinders, so it's quite amazing. Although mine is nowhere near a stock vr4, pushing 500hp@18psi, I would recommend a VR4 to anyone who can afford it.
They do require a lot of maintenance, and a driver who knows what he\she is doing, so they aren't for everyone. Serivce is very expensive, but if you do it yourself parts aren't that expensive.
Overall this car is great. 0-60 around 5 seconds and a 0-30 in 1.3 seconds, top speed around 170 and this is all just stock! These cars are wonderful and I will never part with mine.
What is the gas mileage on this car?
Just because 0-30 is half the top speed of 0-60 does not mean it will be anywhere close to half the time. I assume this car can go 0-30 in 1st gear which explains why it takes less than half the time of going 0-60.
Mileage on my vr4=18 urban, 26 open road, and I don't take in easy.Don't know 0-60, but 120mph in third!150 in fourth with revs left!These are a bargain!Ate a 911 carerra2 last week and mines stndard!!!'Nuf said.
Actually there are a ton of cars that will out accelerate and outhandle a VR4 for less than the cost of a VR4 when it was brand new.
Go to an auto cross some day and tell me how many VR4s you see.
I am considering to buy a 1992 VR-4 that has 35,000 original miles for $14,000, and is in perfect condition. That's twice book value, but I was wondering if the car is still worth it?
Forget book value. Sometimes I wonder where those prices come from. To get a better idea as to price, look on Ebay and see what these cars are going for. Weigh in the fact that you are looking at a very low mileage example. Do a search for the last 7 days and see what current bidding is. Look on Cars. com and Autotrader to see what else is available. If the car is in excellent to pristine condition, no mods or mods put in professionally, I would say that is not a bad price for the car. Of course lower would be better. Of course you have to remember that it is getting harder and harder to find good low mileage VR4. Look at the alternatives I have mentioned and have it checked out completely. Good Luck
Thanks for the response. I have agreed to purchase the VR-4 at 14,000. The car is on its 2nd owner who purchased the car 3 years ago when it had about 7,000 original miles from a lady who had it in a climate controlled garage for 10 years before selling. The owner is a Doctor in his late 40's who drove the car, but extremely good care of it. I ran a carfax on the VR-4 and everything told checks out. I made the decision to purchase this car instead of a 40,000 mile 2 owner Buick Grand National from a 70 year old man retired from GM who said he would sell the car for the same price as the VR-4. It was a VERY tough decision. The Buick is already at collector status and value seems to increase regularly and from a collectability and resale standpoint would seem to be the wiser choice. But I made my decision based on the features and performance of the also rare unmolested VR-4. I'm going to drive this car and enjoy it, maybe down the road another Grand National will be in my sights, but right now I think the VR-4 is 10 times the value from a performance standpoint. Thanks again.
$200,000? Lets see a used Viper with a Hennessy Twin Turbo conversion pushing 1000 hp and just enough $ left over to buy a 2006 stock Viper. Pretty hilarious comment.
Not saying the VR-4 is a bad car, but, better than a Grand National "from a performance standpoint"? A Grand National runs a 13.4 or so quarter mile, depending on which magazine tested. Needless to say, a VR-4 does not. And, I know, it's a "big American drag-racing boat with no handling," but the Grand National also rates higher on the skidpad than the VR-4, which gets an already-high 0.97 or so, again depending on testers. The worst-gripping example I saw of a GNX got a 0.99. and the Grand National's 300hp is rated like all GM vehicles (maybe not Cobalt SS), at the wheels, not "claimed at the crank HP" like the Japanese do it. So 300 GM horsepower becomes at least 375 VR-4 hp. Hard to believe a 3.8L twin-turbo would make more power than a 3.0L twin-turbo, I know. So, I must assume you're talking about the amazing performance of the many cool gauges in the VR-4. You've got the GNX beat hands down when it comes to blinking lights.
I was not talking of the Limited edition Mclaren GNX which is extremely rare, only 547 made, I was comparing the VR-4 to a stock 1987 Grand National. OK, get your stock 87 Grand national (and by the way, It ran a best of 13.9 @ 100 mph, but a more average time of 14.40 s @ 97.7 mph) and line it up with a stock VR-4 in the quarter mile and you get a good race, but probably spinning your tires at the line as the AWD VR-4 puts it down the track. OK, now take the same 2 cars and run them through some curves and see who outperforms who, that should be a no-brainer as the VR-4 is all-wheel-steering and fearures an electronically controlled suspension. Now take both cars and just let them run side by side down the open road, you in your Grand National at about 124 mph (The engineers limited it to that speed with the engine management computer because that was the maximum rating of the tires) will see a the tailights of a 160 mph+ VR-4 (for a little while anyway). Grand nationals were dressed up Buick Regals designed for a quick quarter mile, and they are indeed good for that. I could go on, but I am probably just pissing of GN owners who are reluctant to admit that a little japanese car just might be a faster, better built, better handling car that the black beast. Oh yea... the Grand National can stop faster, OK... you got me there :)
By the way, could you please tell me where you got your Skidpad results on the Buick Grand National (not the GNX) VS. the 3000gt VR-4. I would like to see where the AWD/AWS VR-4 was outperformed by the buick regal. Thanks.
1992 Mitsubishi 3000 GT VR-4 performance results recorded by Car and Driver, Motor Trend, Road and Track, Automobile Magazine.
0-60 4.8 sec
ΒΌ mile 13.4 sec
60-0 115
Skidpad.95
Top Speed 159.1 mph.
Yeah. Since, even if I owned a GNX (not GNS, or GPS, or whatever you said; the GSX was a Buick from 1970), and a 3000GT VR-4, while I'm just on this forum, I'm no better than any other bench racer. I could show you my website, and you could show me yours, until the end of time. Funny, also, how you didn't mention anything about the horsepower thing.
To be the best bench racer I can be, here's a website article: http://budgetperformance.com/articles/gnx which, if you want to use Car&Driver, has the GNX running a 4.7 0-60. It probably didn't, but neither did your VR-4 do 0-60 in 4.8. Notice also, if you look, that the GNX in general did 0-60 in "5 seconds flat," running a "high 12" quarter mile. And 4WS and 4WD don't matter on the skidpad. It's suspension, and tires. That same article puts the GNX at 0.92G. With more searching, I found as low as 0.78g, and as high as 0.96 and 0.98g. But that's from the internet, so we can assume it's wrong.
Yes I do believe the GNX ran a faster quarter mile than the Grand National... after all, it was a limited 547 units of a special edition of the Grand National modified by Mclaren, more horsepower and upgraded interior, suspension, etc. And was probably faster than the VR-4. I was not even comparing the VR-4 to a GNX, I was comparing it to a Grand National (you do realize there is a difference, right?) The buick GN in 87 and the GNX in 87 were 2 different cars. I pesonally love the GN and I'm not trying to run it down, I'm just saying that in my opinion in OVERALL performance the VR-4 has the edge.
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