New Mitsubishi Eclipse Rendered With Nissan Z Influences

The unique Mitsubishi Eclipse was launched in 1989 and the primary two generations of the sports activities automobile have been developed through the Japanese agency’s shut relationship with Chrysler Company. The third-gen mannequin additionally shared its platform with merchandise from the American firm and it wasn’t till the ultimate fourth technology that an in-house constructed structure was launched. The Eclipse MK4 was launched in 2005 and remained in manufacturing till 2011 when the nameplate was discontinued.

Mitsubishi is now half of a big conglomerate, which additionally consists of Nissan, Renault, and different manufacturers. With the present degree of platform sharing throughout the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance, it received’t be an enormous shock if Mitsubishi is given entry to Nissan’s RWD platform, which underpins the brand new Nissan Z. With this concept in thoughts, our colleagues and associates at Kolesa.ru produced the unique renderings you see hooked up under, previewing a possible fifth technology Eclipse.

Clearly, the digital drawings are primarily based on the brand new Z sports activities automobile. Nevertheless, this appears to be like like extra than simply badge engineering because the entrance fascia now encompasses a utterly new design. The headlights and grille seem like impressed by the not too long ago unveiled Mitsubishi XFC idea. The rear finish with its T-shaped taillights shares extra parts with the crossover prototype however we’ve to confess these clusters look good on the sports activities coupe.

Talking of crossovers, it’s price mentioning that Mitsubishi resurrected the Eclipse identify with the Eclipse Cross crossover, which took a place between the Outlander and Outlander Sport within the firm’s portfolio. Nevertheless, that automobile has nothing in frequent with the Eclipse coupe and isn’t even produced in america. 

Again to the renderings hooked up above, Kolesa.ru envisions the resurrected Eclipse as probably utilizing an electrical powertrain. Alternatively, it might function a modified model of Nissan’s 3.0-liter V6 turbo engine from the Nissan Z, mated to a nine-speed automated gearbox. In fact, that is all simply hypothesis.