The Galant VR-4 was in the magazines of the day, like Car and Driver, etc. I do recall reading about them and was impressed by its performance for the time period...Not overly fast or anything, but for a 4-door, since nobody cared about them still, other than some Honda accord's being lowered and fixed up (pre-ricer days). Plus, it was a clean design and Mitsubishi was in its heyday still and made some nice, newer stuff (eclipse, 3000GT, etc.) across the line back then. For some reason, always thought about the Diamante being the VR-4 and probably mixed that one up because it was such a clean design and even that had pretty good performance back then (again, esp for a 4-door).
Years later, remembered the car (VR-4) when I was looking for a 3rd vehicle. Wanted a Grand National or something like that, but already had RWD performance cars and wanted something different. Sort of wished I had gone with the GN though, being these things just aren't worth anything, in comparison. Almost bought a near new GN around 1989 for like $10k...and there was an 89 Turbo T/A that only had like 5k and Turbo City owner was selling (some good mods, but looked stocked and super clean) for $13k in 1992 IIRC. Ended up buying a GMC Syclone not too long after that for like $15k with real low miles (2 year old); they had just sold their last brand new one for $18k! They were stickered at $28k, which seemed like a lot of $ then, lol. Actually it was, esp during that recession and for basically a 2-seater. One of the few cars I made a good amount of $ on when I sold it a couple years later, driving it A LOT and having a great time in it (talk about a good stoplight racer to 60 /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif )