A Pininfarina-badged drop top for Shed money? You better believe it
Ah, Pininfarina, the Italian coachbuilder and designer associated with so many great cars… Ferraris aplenty, including the 250 GT Lusso, 288 GTO, F40, F12, P4/5, various lovely Peugeot coupes, the Maserati GranTurismo, Mitsubishi’s Colt CZC, the iconic Alfa Duetto…was a joint development between Mitsubishi and Pininfarina.
Mitsubishi did succeed in making the roof work but you’ll have your own view on how well they did with the looking good part. It’s a distant memory for Shed, but for him the back view of the CZC with those eyebrowish roll-hoop wotsits reminds him of a smaller version of Mrs Shed being taken by surprise from the rear. Mitsubishi reckoned it didn’t need real rollover hoops because the A-pillars and doors were strong enough to protect you in a spill.
Inside, you were faced with the kind of plastics more normally used to create toys for Christmas crackers. For some reason nobody in Mitsubishi HQ pointed out to the designer that you didn’t actually need two air vents on either side of the dash, one to service your face and another one to clear the side window, because swivelling vents had been around for donkeys’ years by then. Maybe it was a cost-saving thing.
By way of compensation for the lack of go, our Shed is the CZC3, the most luxurious of the non-turbo CZCs with full moo seating . And what moo it is. Well, the colour of it anyway. Put Donald Trump in this car and you’d have a job finding him again.
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