COLOURS & TYRES:
Marlboro sponsorship from 1999 to 2002 aside, Mitsubishi was always in their own colours. For that it is unbelievable how often these colours changed, as if Mitsubishi couldn’t make up their mind who exactly they are. The first Ralli Art cars had as well the brand’s first distinct colour scheme. White & orange on the Lancer 2000 Turbo may have looked like a strange combination at first, but it was far from ugly and it certainly was a combination that could have grown into a very distinct brand awareness indeed. But it didn’t last long. Already with Starion prototypes and then with the early Galant it turned into white with red & black, but by 1990 this turned into white, red & blue with a little silver and green. On the first event of the Lancer Evo in 1993 it was white & red with a little silver and black, but already on the very next event the cars were in white, red & green with a little silver. They changed so often, it seems impossible to keep track. Mostly it was a theme of mainly white with some red, but for 2003 their colours were meant to be red with some silver and no white at all.