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Groovy Baby, Yeah! GO Network Visitors Can Turn The All-New 2000 Mitsubishi Eclipse Into the Ultimate Spy-Car

8 June 1999

Groovy Baby, Yeah! GO Network Visitors Can Turn The All-New 2000 Mitsubishi Eclipse Into the Ultimate Spy-Car

    Mr.ShowBiz.com Visitors Can Work Their Mojo at the 'Espionage Garage'

    CYPRESS, Calif., June 8 -- The smashing all-new 2000
Mitsubishi Eclipse, which swings into Mitsubishi Motors' dealerships in July,
will experience a little cross-mojonation as cats and kittens who visit
Mr.ShowBiz.com -- GO Network's entertainment partner -- can build their own
Eclipse spy-cars worthy of Britain's swinging Secret Agent, Austin Powers.  Oh
behave!
    Beginning today and continuing through June, advertisements on
Mr.ShowBiz.com (http://www.mrshowbiz.go.com) will link undercover special agents to
the "Espionage Garage," where a 2000 Eclipse can be loaded with the latest
counter-espionage features.  Sporting a groovy Flower-Power paint job, special
agents can equip their Eclipse spy-cars with everything from a "rejector" seat
to go-go radar and a shag carpet top.  Grrrrr...
    "Mitsubishi Motors is extremely excited about the all-new 2000 Eclipse and
we are very pleased to feature it on Mr.ShowBiz.com, a member of the GO
Network's family of sites," said Peg Dilworth-Hunt, director, marketing for
Mitsubishi Motor Sales of America, Inc. (MMSA).  "We believe Eclipse's
incredibly sophisticated new design will appeal not only to Austin Powers'
many fans, but to anyone looking to drive a stylish, fun-to-drive vehicle."
    The all-new 2000 Eclipse, the perfect car for escaping the clutches of
evil enemies or simply swinging down the road, is a bold, aggressively styled
sports coupe that builds on its own heritage of affordable high performance
while adding a new level of sophistication.  Designed at the Mitsubishi Motors
R&D America, Inc. (MRDA) design studio in Cypress, Calif., Eclipse's
revolutionary design is cutting edge.  But that's just the beginning, baby!
    Featuring styling cues taken directly from Mitsubishi Motors' exotic SST
concept car, the all-new Eclipse continues the trademark "geo-mechanical"
design theme of Mitsubishi Motors' design center in Southern California.  The
smashing "geo-mechanical" look combines basic shapes and forms with taut
surfaces to appear as if they were machined from metal.  Even the Eclipse's
fuel filler has a groovy riveted, metallic-like appearance.
    Assembled at the Mitsubishi Motors Manufacturing of America, Inc. (MMMA)
plant in Normal, Ill., the 2000 Eclipse is available with its first-ever V6, a
205-horsepower* engine that gives Eclipse all the style and power a special
agent needs.  The 2000 Eclipse also offers Mitsubishi Motors new
Sportronic(TM) transmission, which can be shifted as a clutchless manual or a
conventional automatic ... smashing!
    Mitsubishi Motor Sales of America, Inc. was established in 1982 by
Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, Tokyo, and markets a full line of vehicles,
including coupes, convertibles, sedans and sport utility vehicles.

    * 200-horsepower with CA/NLEV emissions