My Mitsubishi Mirage has the slowest 0 to 60 time on YouTube and I'm ashamed of it!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- Season 2019, Episode 9. I have to come clean on something that I've been hiding for years. It's not easy to talk about - especially with my car friends. But I need to get it off my chest so I'm sharing this shameful and embarrassing secret with you today.
I make a special announcement of what I plan to do with my shamefully embarrassing car tomorrow which will debut in my next video. You will definitely want to see that!
Next, I take my shameful and embarrassing secret car out for what may possibly be the slowest 0 to 60 acceleration test on all of TH-cam.
Finally, I show you my new dual camera GoPro setup and take it for a road test.
I hope you enjoy this video, give it the thumbs up, and please subscribe if you haven't already so you won't miss my future car content.
Make sure you watch me autocross the Mirage in this next video: • Autocrossing the Mirag...
Thanks!
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Never be ashamed of owning a mirage. Flaunt it. Don't hide it. Though, paint it screaming yellow.😎
I already traded it in... on an Audi S5! LOL
one of the only cars that you can floor it everywhere
Hah! For sure.
WoW. I expected to be like "OK, well acceleration isn't the MOST important thing, maybe just a momentum car", but damn that was like watching grass grow, can it even keep up with traffic or do HWY speeds?
Definitely a good car for scooting around town but I didn't expect it to be so slow.
Oh it's super slow. So slow my wife, who is not even in to cars, calls it a gutless wonder. It actually can do 90 MPH. I know first hand. It just takes a really long time to get up there. It's the ultimate momentum car. When merging in to moving traffic, you really have to wait for a bit opening. By the way, what ever happened to your Exocet?
@@EvolutionAutocrosser lol, your description of driving that thing sounds like driving a 125cc motorcycle around.
The exocet is in my garage practicing its dust collection skills! My friend & co-owner moved away and I lost some motivation then the CHP office refused to do the VIN inspection (where they affix a new VIN, accept receipts for parts, etc.) because of how unfinished it was & the brake/light inspection office told me some things i need to fix, and the few morsels of motivation I had left went out the window :(. I'm really hoping to get cranking on it by EOY, it's ridiculous how untouched its been, hasn't really been touched in like 2 years+ now, pathetic. I made sure it still runs earlier this year, though. I'm not ready to give up just yet!
@@MrSlowestD16 I completely understand. I took a 5-year break from autocrossing my Evo. It pretty much just sat for years. I just got it back out and am active again with it this year. You mentioned CHP - are you in California? Also, if you're not able to get it street legal you could at least finish it and trailer it to autocrosses and track events.
It really has no trouble keeping up, even with a 150 lb suit case and 4 big burly truck drivers in it. It'll hold 100 mph on I-40 (in Tennessee, the highways, even interstates are pretty hilly) without much trouble. It's working hard, but it'll do it all day long with the pedal half way down. Hold it to the floor and it taps out at about 117 mph. Mines a stick, so it's more or less limited by the 4.08:1 differential. 100 mph is 5000 rpm. 117 mph, it sits at about 6200 rpm. Redline is at 6500 rpm. And that little motor is very happy to do it for as long as you care to.
@@fadingbeleifs and drag,......thus it is geared perfectly
There's a trend with the Mirage: reviewers tend to hate them, owners tend to like them. They are super efficient, low cost, reliable cars. If that's what you're looking for, they'll be great cars. If you are looking for a status symbol you can race, you'll be disappointed.
It's a car that's easy to hate for everything except for price and fuel efficiency. When it comes to those two items, the car is a winner. Oh, it was also pretty reliable. Never had an issue with it.
shit i like the mirage, gets amazing fuel economy and you get apple car play on certain models for a really good price 😎
I like it it's an ok car it's for your affordable needs. I would buy it
Agreed. It's not a terrible car. We did buy one after all and it served its purpose for years getting us to and from where we needed to be for a very cheap price.
The Mirage is an excellent vehicle. There’s no shame in it. I love mine & I’m looking forward to it being my daily driver. I haven’t sold my 2002 Echo yet with 317k on it. I’d planned on driving it to 400k but, I told the Mrs I’d go down to one vehicle. So, now it’s going to be the Mirage’s turn. Any car that will do that is worth it’s weight in gold. I can’t say that for the costly unreliability of my old Volvo V70. What a pile. Bullet proof reliability & durability are all that matter. Not heated leather seats, wood grain inserts & a turbo. Did I mention it was a pile? 😂
Of course I was never really ashamed. The title was just a bit of humor. The Mirage was a good car that served its purpose for many years before trading it in. It's just very slow but also very economical so it's a reade-off.
Well, it's about saving money and can be used for long trips since it's cheap and saves on gas, maintenance cost is low too
No doubt it’s a super economical car. It was cheap to buy, own, and operate.
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3 horses eat less than 4 🐎
They also do less work.
Hilarious 😂
Thanks! I'm not sure if I've ever driven a slower car in my life.
Why was it bucking so badly during your acceleration test right before you hit 60? My 2014 would do that exact same thing, but under light throttle at city speeds. Drove me crazy.
No idea. But it likely has something to do with the CVT. At least that’s my guess. It doesn’t usually do that as long as you drive it gently. The harder you drive it the more it jerks.
Does the transmission have a Ds mode?
No but it does have a B mode for brake. I should have tried it to see if it made the car faster. I totally forgot about it.
@@EvolutionAutocrosser It does allow it to accelerate faster up until about 30mph I've noticed. Bogs down quite a bit if you leave it in B, however.
I don't regret buying a mirage. Very comfy vs a used wreck with who knows how many problems.
It was the right car with the right payment at the right time.
How do you sync your two cameras for video editing?
Start both cameras then do a countdown visually and audibly. Then you can take the two clips and line them up off of that and make your edits keeping both clips together.
Alternatively you just take the two clips and try to find a key frame where the same thing happens in both, such as a visual event or specific sound, and line them up off of that.
@@EvolutionAutocrosser great advice. Thank you.
Awesome! i have a Mitsubishi Mirage, i have been driving with bigger tires on it 185/70 R14 Falken. Changing the correct tires size will void the warenty on the car. I thnk the 1980s geo metro getting 55 miles per gallon is true. I think that cars can get better miles per gallon and people don't need trucks and SUVs as much as they think, not that many off road times gonna happen. A 4 cylinder is gonna be pretty strong motor, especially in a smaller vehicle. There are lots of city cars in Europe like the Toyota Aygo for example is about the same as Mitsubishi Mirage. Or the Nissan Micra sold in Canada not USA. Funny buisness going on.
Sorry but you think a 4 cylinder is strong for a car? Is that not the standard? 3 cylinders are most definitely the outlier here
0:49 i recognize this area, is it McKinney Texas?
Sure is! Adriatica to be exact.
Are you a smoker? The headliner looks beige and it’s discolored next the the pillar trim
NordicRider I’m not a smoker - but it did get smoked in regularly for a few years. Good eye for detail!
@@EvolutionAutocrosser Ah
NO andy don't let him in HA HA HA kidding.
Already done! I'm putting the final edits on this weekend's autocross video now. Should be up by tonight I hope.
Seems it’s faster than a geo metro?
Possibly?
I’m buying one for the same reason u bought one. To get there. That’s all I care about
It will do the job - just very slowly.
You also don't take care of it worth a damn... Jesus that thing is a mess.
I admit it was a shameful disaster. I actually cleaned it up with a wash, vacuum, and interior wipe down after I made this video in time for the autocross in the following video. I think the car actually runs better now...
@@EvolutionAutocrosser hell, I left my extra company uniforms and a few jackets laying in my back seat for a few months after having washed them.. I had both my S class and my Mirage parked at my terminal in South Carolina from February thru July... The Mirage smells just like clean laundry. And the smell isn't going away.
Either way, call me OCD, but being as how I drive a car carrier for a living, and I'm hardly ever in my cars on a per unit of time basis, I usually keep everything from the seats and carpet, to the engine bay and undercarriage clean enough to do brain surgery on.. my cars are like children to me. I take care of them, and I've yet to get less than 350k miles out of each.
The S-Class is at 211k mi now, the Mirage is at 4600 miles. Just did the first oil change.
Getting rid of those loud ass Dunlop Enasaves though. Going for a touring tire, probably a 175/55 r14 or something roughly equal to the OEM tire circumference. I hate having to recalibrate things.
@@fadingbeleifs Nothing wrong with being OCD about your cars. I used to have a full collection of car washes, can waxes, spray waxes, interior cleaning supplies, tire shines, wheel brushes, and chamois. I would keep my cars looking like new and even get in between the tiny spaces of the wheels and wipe the door jams. The last few years, unfortunately, I just been so busy with work and such that car cleaning has taken a proverbial back seat.
@@fadingbeleifs I run Barum Brillantis2 175 65 r14 tires on both my Mirages. Good cheap tire, no rubbing issues, and less road noise but my mpg took a hit.
if they at least put a 2.0 turbo in that it would shave 10 seconds off the 0-60 figuring it weighs just over 2000 lbs my gli weighs 1300 lbs more and is 5.6 0-60 this thing has so much potential to be an affordable sleeper hopefully they'll make a mirage evo here soon lol
but thats not the goal
It's probably a good thing this car is slow. If it was fast it would probably tip over! hah.
My mirage gets 53 mpg mixed driving.. automatic..base model.. so when you beat that make a comment til then shhhh
Do you still have today??
No I traded it in a little over a year ago.
My wife has one. Piece of crap
Lol
It’s been a nightmare both brake caliper seized at 35,000 miles and they would not warrantee it out and it’s a 2020 we had to do a tuneup on it at 25,000 miles We’ve gone through two sets of tires after the original ones because every pothole we hit blows the tire. And then we try to trade it in and being a 2020 with 45,000 miles we only get offered $7500 for it and she bought it brand new for 18,000 in 2021 that’s one of those cars that I wish that I bought a couple years old or I would’ve saved a little bit of money. But what’s crazy is I bought a 2012 Kia soul with 150,000 miles on it and nothings wrong with it I’ve only put one alternator in it And then it instantly ran and has had no problems and I got it for only $4500 I live outside of Denver and I usually have to drive 60 miles one way to work in the Kia soul is been great but honestly I’d rather have my ram but because Of gas prices the Kia soul looks pretty good right now
@@cliffsmash4063 Sorry to hear about all that. I never had any problems with the brake calipers. But on two occasions a tire blew out. They seemed pretty weak overall. Yes they depreciate rapidly. We ended up trading ours in last year for only $3500.
Cool vid, I'm glad you mentioned it is a reliable shitbox though, especially for rideshare. I did 3k rides in my 2014 and not one issue ever. My wife has a 2017 G4 sedan Mirage too. Some questions. How many miles so far? Do you stay on top of the JATCO CVT7 fluid swaps? Have you been on MirageForum? DeMuro is a paid shill saying the Mirage was unreliable. He didn't even know what a floor vent was! Here's a 2014 Mirage CVT that went 400k miles and still going.
www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2020/12/mitsubishi-mirage-clocks-over-400-000-miles-doesn-t-intend-to-stop.html
DeMuro is entitled to his opinion, but its just an opinion. If it isn't big, bulky, and stereotypical American sized model he doesn't like it. Personally, I like vehicles that you can easily get in and out of parking with, or something you can easily turn around in a tight space. Big vehicles just aren't worth it, which is the norm in North America. With regards to Mirage, owners' reports show these vehicles are lasting a long time. If its reliable, that's more than half the battle. Reliability is everything when it comes to value for money spent.
@@BTin416 I found out that if I shut the AC off, I'm in the only one in the car, and a gun it to 4k rpms I can just get it to 60 mph in 10 seconds if its a flat surface. An incline gradient surface will negate this though and I'm back to 12 second 0 to 60 lol. Since the Mirage and Spark are the only 2 subcompacts left and gas prices heading to $4 a gallon I suspect this class will make a small but steady comeback.
@@kylemas2005 The Spark has a Chevrolet badge, but its very much a south Korean/asian built vehicle. In fact, the Mirage and Spark share parts, the Jatco CVT transmission in the Mirage is identical to the one they put in the Spark, at least it was for the 2017 model year I purchased. I'm assuming they've kept the same supplier as little has changed on the Spark. I think the Mirage is manufactured in Thailand, but the suppliers are still quite similar for the two. Mirage is actually more spacious than a Spark, I rented a Mirage and compared it to my Spark and realized it has noticeable upgrades in shoulder room, hip room, the backseats are far more comfy in the Mirage, and there's more storage. Spark is a micro car, Mirage is merely a compact. I didn't realize how different they were until I drove the Mirage. The Spark's 100 hp engine is more peppy, though it does come with a drop off in fuel efficiency.
@@BTin416 Yes the Spark, Versa, Mirage, Swift all have a JATCO CVT7 but their respective programming is different. Mitsubishi uses INVECS III programming and Nissan, the much aligned XTronic programming. I have no idea about GM Korea.
@@kylemas2005 I'm unsure what the Spark uses as well, but I can tell you that it tries to mimic a traditional automatic, which I actually do not like. The reason why is because its not natural to the CVT, it becomes jerky with the slightest pressure on the pedal when you're at highway speeds. I wished they would allow for the CVT smoothness and highest optimal ratio to be selected depending on how hard you press the pedal. But its the same hardware underneath.
My stupid 2014 mirage having issue of acceleration hesitation at 2000rpm
Did you encounter ever that issue?
A K Hi. Not really but sometimes the car starts chugging under full throttle. It goes then slows then goes then slows real quick. Check your air filter then maybe see about getting an ecu update from the dealer (if one is available).
Hows it running?
@@kylemas2005
Shittiest machine i ever had,
Now i own suzuki swift second gen, lovin it
@@dreambig121 Wow that bad huh? My 2014 Mirage has been dead reliable. What were your issues? Powertrain failure?
@@kylemas2005 i guess you are a very slow crawling city driver, otherwise there is no any reason to love this useless brand
This is painful to watch. :)
If you think this was bad, wait until you see the next one when I try to autocross it
Looking forward to that video.
I looked at the results. PAX must be waaaay off on that car. :D
@@goraceacar HS is too high of a class for this car! LOL
I know right... A bloke with only 3.5k subscribers harrasing us multiple times per video to like and subscribe.. Legit made the video unmwatchable...
Why did you buy the car?it is nowhere near a sports or autocross car! You're a dope! Its a economy car! Get a sports car!
I own an Evo 8 and an Audi S5. I bought it as a cheap commuter and fuel efficiency. The 0-60 test and taking it out for an autocross was just for fun.