Welcome to my site dedicated to the Mitsubishi FTO.
I looked a several different car before I purchased the FTO, Alfa Romeo GTV, Toyota Celica and Honda Integra. What I wanted was a car that looked good, reasonably quick, good handling and cheapish to run. For me the FTO wins hands down.
It's not the quickest car on the roads but for a 2 litre normally aspirated car that was made 10 years ago it will embarrass most hot hatches, especially from a rolling start. The FTO is a great handling car with drop dead gorgeous looks, what more can you ask for. (well apart from a turbo conversion)
If you are thinking about buying an FTO do some research before hand, have a look through the Links section on my site. Unfortunately you can no longer import Facelift FTOs due to there being no model report available for the ESVA test.