Pic challenge - space wagon

[crazymonkey]

tell you what if anyone finds a 1st gen let me know, I want another one haha. we have the 2nd gen at the moment and its brilliant.

and this is the reason I want another 1st gen. apologies for the rubbish photoshop, it was done about a year ago

[VIP]

Best I could find...

[surprisingskoda]

That last one PoG put up is also a Dodge I think...

or maybe not, can't find any evidence. It was something else as well though.

[Jowey]

Dad used to drive on of these.

He still maintains to this day that it was the comfiest car he's ever driven in, but also revvy enough to be good fun through country lanes.
Also likes to boast that he managed to fit 5 adults and 400quid fo supermarket shopping in it.

anyhow

here are some cool ones from my picture folder.

[crazymonkey]

nah the ones jowey has posted are the spacerunner aka the 5 seater version of the spacewagon. pretty much identical just smaller

our 2.0 2nd gen is pretty nippy, will cruise happily at 100mph (on private test roads of course ) they are good cars.

[<Type desired username here>]

Later GDI cars suffer from carboned up inlet valves and the GDI cars don't handle as well as the engine is top heavy compared to the V6 or pre GDI cars.

Non functioning sidelights is a common problem (that people usually bodge round!) usually caused by faulty indicator stalk. Same part no as gen 2 Shogun/Paj, Shogun pinin and later version of Galant.

[Deleted]

What engines did the 1st gen ones come with? Considering a 4x4 one as a daily driver, getting it dirt cheap due to a broken engine, and i know of a rusty Mitsu Galant Turbo donor car... 150 ponies turbo and 4x4 would be fun

[Jowey]

Don't some of them come with just 1 sliding door on the rear ? curbside

Pretty sure there is a JDM model which has 4wd and a turbo lancer/galant lump

[Jowey]

The smaller Space runner
was sold (or rather didnt sell very well) in the US as the Eagle Summit.








Dad must have had a Space runner as that seems to be the one with the curbside sliding door, swear it had 7 seats in it though 2 rearward facing in the boot.

The 4wd Turbo is the 'Mitsubishi RVR Hyper Sportsgear'









Coolest one I could come across:

[WillCarter]

That final one looks pretty serious, maybe an Evo conversion, certainly running a wide track at the front.

[crazymonkey]

the spacerunner is the one with the sliding doors, the gen 1 spacewagons came with a 1.8 engine. we had the auto but my god that thing actually went pretty well for a heavy car.

[angle]

The best I can find - Evo powered...

[dapper]

Not a wagon but a runner.

Also not souped up, modded or anything else, just a stock RVR but anyone seen it in a better setting?







We found we had more kit than could fit in the camper we rented to take on a filming shoot. So, not being able to get in touch with the production manager to clear renting another motor, we took the wife's RVR.
What a tool. Great little motor. I think we raised a few smiles doing a circuit of the track as well.

[uncle silvia]

This is currently on Ebay............ (OK not that Retro but still along the same lines!!)

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mitsubishi-RVR-X3-Manual-4wd-and-Evo-engine-make-one-mean-mini-MPV-/140684720363





And heres some others I found....................








And how about an "Open Gear" version.............

[r1173]