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Mitsubishi Galant VR-4, the Glossary

The Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 (Viscous Realtime 4WD) was the range-topping version of Mitsubishi Motors' Galant model, available in the sixth (1987–1992), seventh (1992–1996) and eighth (1996–2002) generations of the vehicle.^[1]

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Anti-lock braking system

An anti-lock braking system (ABS) is a safety anti-skid braking system used on aircraft and on land vehicles, such as cars, motorcycles, trucks, and buses.

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Asia-Pacific Rally Championship

The Asia-Pacific Rally Championship (APRC) is an international rally championship organized by the FIA encompassing rounds in Asia and Oceania.

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Auto racing

Auto racing (also known as car racing, motor racing, or automobile racing) is a motorsport involving the racing of automobiles for competition.

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Automatic transmission

An automatic transmission (sometimes abbreviated AT) is a multi-speed transmission used in motor vehicles that does not require any input from the driver to change forward gears under normal driving conditions.

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Differential (mechanical device)

A differential is a gear train with three drive shafts that has the property that the rotational speed of one shaft is the average of the speeds of the others.

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Dragstrip

A dragstrip is a facility for conducting automobile and motorcycle acceleration events such as drag racing.

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Engine displacement

Engine displacement is the measure of the cylinder volume swept by all of the pistons of a piston engine, excluding the combustion chambers.

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Ford Escort (Europe)

The Ford Escort is a small family car that was manufactured by Ford of Europe from 1968 until 2000. Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 and Ford Escort (Europe) are 1980s cars, 2000s cars, rally cars and station wagons.

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Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company (commonly known as Ford) is an American multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, United States.

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Ford Sierra RS Cosworth

The Ford Sierra RS Cosworth is a high-performance version of the Ford Sierra that was built by Ford Europe from 1986 to 1992. Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 and Ford Sierra RS Cosworth are rally cars.

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Four-wheel drive

A four-wheel drive, also called 4×4 ("four by four") or 4WD, is a two-axled vehicle drivetrain capable of providing torque to all of its wheels simultaneously.

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Front-engine, four-wheel-drive layout

In automotive design, an F4, or front-engine, four-wheel drive (4WD) layout places the internal combustion engine at the front of the vehicle and drives all four roadwheels.

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Fuzzy logic

Fuzzy logic is a form of many-valued logic in which the truth value of variables may be any real number between 0 and 1.

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Group A

Group A is a set of motorsport regulations administered by the FIA covering production derived touring cars for competition, usually in touring car racing and rallying. Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 and Group A are rally cars.

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Group B

Group B was a set of regulations for grand touring (GT) vehicles used in sports car racing and rallying introduced in 1982 by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 and Group B are rally cars.

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Hatchback

A hatchback is a car body configuration with a rear door that swings upward to provide access to the main interior of the car as a cargo area rather than just to a separated trunk.

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Homologation

Homologation (Greek homologeo, ὁμολογέω, "to agree") is the granting of approval by an official authority.

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Hyundai Motor Company

Hyundai Motor Company, often referred to as Hyundai Motors, and commonly known as Hyundai, is a South Korean multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, which was founded in 1967.

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Hyundai Tiburon

The Hyundai Tiburon (현대 티뷰론), known in Europe as the Hyundai Coupé (현대 쿠페), is a sports coupe that was produced by the South Korean manufacturer Hyundai from 1996 to 2008. Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 and Hyundai Tiburon are 2000s cars and rally cars.

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Independent suspension

Independent suspension is any automobile suspension system that allows each wheel on the same axle to move vertically (i.e. reacting to a bump on the road) independently of the others.

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INVECS

INVECS (Intelligent & Innovative Vehicle Electronic Control System), Mitsubishi Motors website is the brand name used by Mitsubishi Motors for its electronic automatic transmission technology.

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Japan Mobility Show

The, called (TMS) until 2019, is a biennial auto show held in October–November at the Tokyo Big Sight, Tokyo, Japan for cars, motorcycles and commercial vehicles.

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Kenjiro Shinozuka

was a Japanese rally driver.

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Kenneth Eriksson

Kenneth Eriksson (born 13 May 1956 in Äppelbo, in the kommun of Vansbro) is a now retired World Rally Championship rally driver.

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Liftback

A liftback is a variation of a hatchback car body style, with a more gently sloping roofline, roughly between 45 and 10 degrees, whereas traditional or archetypal hatchback designs tend to use a 45 degree to near vertical slope on the top-hinged tailgate (often called, and even counted as, a rear 'door' on hatchbacks).

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Litre

The litre (British English spelling) or liter (American English spelling) (SI symbols L and l, other symbol used: ℓ) is a metric unit of volume. It is equal to 1 cubic decimetre (dm3), 1000 cubic centimetres (cm3) or 0.001 cubic metres (m3). A cubic decimetre (or litre) occupies a volume of (see figure) and is thus equal to one-thousandth of a cubic metre.

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MacPherson strut

The MacPherson strut is a type of automotive suspension system that uses the top of a telescopic damper as the upper steering pivot.

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Manual transmission

A manual transmission (MT), also known as manual gearbox, standard transmission (in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States), or stick shift (in the United States), is a multi-speed motor vehicle transmission system, where gear changes require the driver to manually select the gears by operating a gear stick and clutch (which is usually a foot pedal for cars or a hand lever for motorcycles).

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Manumatic

The modern usage of the automotive term manumatic denotes an automatic transmission that allows the driver to select a specific gear, typically using paddle-shifters, steering wheel-mounted push-buttons, or "+" and "-" controls on the gear selector.

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Mikael Ericsson

Mikael Ericsson (born 28 February 1960) is a Swedish former rally driver.

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Mitsubishi AWC

All Wheel Control (AWC) is the brand name of a four-wheel drive (4WD) system developed by Mitsubishi Motors.

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Mitsubishi Galant

The is an automobile which was produced by Japanese manufacturer Mitsubishi from 1969 until 2012. Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 and Mitsubishi Galant are 1980s cars, 2000s cars, Mitsubishi Motors vehicles, station wagons and vehicles with four-wheel steering.

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Mitsubishi Lancer (A70)

--> The Mitsubishi Lancer (A70) is the first generation version of Mitsubishi's long-running Lancer nameplate. Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 and Mitsubishi Lancer (A70) are 1980s cars and Mitsubishi Motors vehicles.

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Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution

The Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, popularly referred to as the 'Evo', is a sports sedan and rally car based on the Lancer that was manufactured by Japanese manufacturer Mitsubishi Motors from 1992 until 2016. Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 and Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution are 2000s cars, Mitsubishi Motors vehicles, rally cars and sports sedans.

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Mitsubishi Motors

is a Japanese multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

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Mitsubishi Pajero

The, p.2, Chameleon Translations, p.1, Chameleon Translations is a full-size SUV (sport utility vehicle) manufactured and marketed globally by Mitsubishi over four generations — introduced in 1981 and discontinued in 2021. Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 and Mitsubishi Pajero are 2000s cars and Mitsubishi Motors vehicles.

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Multi-link suspension

A multi-link suspension is a type of independent vehicle suspension having three or more control links per wheel.

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Okazaki, Aichi

is a city located in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

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Overhead camshaft engine

An overhead camshaft (OHC) engine is a piston engine in which the camshaft is located in the cylinder head above the combustion chamber.

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Parallel import

A parallel import is a non-counterfeit product imported from another country without the permission of the intellectual property owner.

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Patrick Tauziac

Patrick Tauziac (born 18 January 1955, in Saigon, Vietnam) is a French former rally driver.

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Pentti Airikkala

Pentti Airikkala (4 September 1945 – 30 September 2009) was one of the "Flying Finns" who dominated world rallying in the past four decades.

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Porsche

Dr.

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Ralliart

Ralliart is the high-performance division of Mitsubishi Motors.

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Rally Finland

Rally Finland (formerly known as the Neste Rally Finland, Neste Oil Rally Finland, 1000 Lakes Rally and Rally of the Thousand Lakes; Suomen ralli, Finska rallyt) is a rally competition in the Finnish Lakeland in Central Finland.

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Rally raid

Rally raid is a type of off-road motorsport event for automobiles and motorcycles.

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Rally Sweden

The Rally Sweden (Svenska rallyt), formerly the KAK-Rally, the International Swedish Rally, and later the Uddeholm Swedish Rally, is an automobile rally competition held in February in Värmland, Sweden and relocated to Umeå in 2022.

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Rallye Côte d'Ivoire

The Rallye Côte d'Ivoire, perhaps better known as the Rallye Bandama as it was originally called, or the Ivory Coast Rally, is a rally race held annually in Côte d'Ivoire in Africa.

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Rallying

Rallying is a wide-ranging form of motorsport with various competitive motoring elements such as speed tests (sometimes called "rally racing" in United States), navigation tests, or the ability to reach waypoints or a destination at a prescribed time or average speed.

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Revolutions per minute

Revolutions per minute (abbreviated rpm, RPM, rev/min, r/min, or r⋅min−1) is a unit of rotational speed (or rotational frequency) for rotating machines.

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Ross Dunkerton

Ross Winston Dunkerton OAM (born 16 July 1945) is an Australian rally driver.

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Sedan (automobile)

A sedan or saloon (British English) is a passenger car in a three-box configuration with separate compartments for an engine, passengers, and cargo.

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South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.

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Sports car

A sports car is a type of car that is designed with an emphasis on dynamic performance, such as handling, acceleration, top speed, the thrill of driving, and racing capability.

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Station wagon

A station wagon (US, also wagon) or estate car (UK, also estate) is an automotive body-style variant of a sedan with its roof extended rearward over a shared passenger/cargo volume with access at the back via a third or fifth door (the liftgate, or tailgate), instead of a trunk/boot lid. Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 and station wagon are station wagons.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Galant_VR-4

Also known as Galant VR-4, Galant vr4, Mitsubishi Galant VR 4, Mitsubishi Galant VR4, Mitsubishi Legnum VR-4.

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