On Monday, we presented this week’s shifter and asked you to identify the make and model of the vehicle whence it came. The first (and only) commenter to correctly identify it as belonging to a Plymouth Sapporo was repeat winner lh415cd.
The Sapporo pictured here was featured in our August 1978 issue. The Plymouth coupe—named after the location of the 1972 Winter Olympics, not the beer—was a badge-engineered version of the oft-forgot late-1970s Dodge Challenger, itself a Mitsubishi-built derivative of the JDM Galant Lambda.
We loved the Sapporo’s luxurious interior (“If you get off on crushed velvet, leather, and wood, Mitsubishi’s variations on the … three will blow you away,” we said), and we thought its exterior was attractive if not for the “targa” bar and opera lights. Our test car had the optional upsized inline-4, a 2555-cc unit that was nonetheless unsuitable for racy driving behavior (we turned a 19.1-second quarter-mile at 71 mph). The standard five-speed manual had “more than enough gears to play with. Make believe you’re going fast,” we said. Brakes were excellent, ride quality good, steering poor, and handling dominated by understeer.
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