The 1980s were primetime for two big elements in the motorsport sphere: fantastically competitive racing, and an affection for bending the rules with the Starion ticking both boxes nicely.

With the relatively recent introduction of turbochargers, across the board of all motorsports you could see some sudden outstanding lap times and crucial figures being produced, whilst all apparently sticking to the regulations.

With some fantastic characters in motorsport at the time, there are a few examples of teams reading exactly what the rules didn’t say and playing up to that.

Mitsubishi released the Starion (Colt Starion for UK market) in 1981, going up against the Mazda RX7, Toyota Supra, and the Nissan Z-Cars and was received relatively well.

Whilst sales figures admittedly didn’t set the world on fire, it was nonetheless a popular choice at the time, and a great way of Mitsubishi throwing their hat into the ring on using Turbochargers to take on higher-displacement competitors.

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