Get Autoblog in your Google feed 99 – 2012 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 05 – 2012 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 33 – 2012 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 07 – 2012 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 21 – 2012 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 15 – 2012 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 25 – 2012 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 08 – 2012 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 38 – 2012 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 29 – 2012 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 36 – 2012 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 10 – 2012 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 12 – 2012 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 42 – 2012 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 17 – 2012 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 23 – 2012 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 27 – 2012 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 31 – 2012 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 40 – 2012 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 43 – 2012 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin 16 – 2012 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder in Colorado junkyard – photo by Murilee Martin When Chrysler and Mitsubishi partnered to establish the Diamond-Star Motors plant in Illinois , the first cars built at that facility were 1990 Mitsubishi Eclipses along with their Eagle Talon and Plymouth Laser twins . The Eclipse went through four generations, with 2012 as the final model year. Today’s Junkyard Gem is one of the very last Eclipses, found in a Denver car graveyard recently.
This generation of Eclipse was built starting with the 2006 model year, and it was based on a platform shared with the Galant and Endeavor .
It was substantially larger than the early Eclipses, scaling in at nearly 3,500 pounds.
The Spyder convertible version of the fourth-gen Eclipse debuted in the United States as a 2007 model . Sales were never strong and became downright miserable by the end, with fewer than a thousand 2012 Eclipses (both coupes and convertibles) leaving showrooms.
This car is a base-grade GS with automatic transmission, and its VIN indicates that it was built for fleet sale. This would have been a fun rental car, at least compared to the Dodge Nitros and Kia Rios that stocked rental fleets in the early 2010s.
The engine is a 2.4-liter SOHC straight-four rated at 162 horsepower and 162 pound-feet.
The MSRP was $27,999, or about $38,581 in 2024 dollars.
2012 was also the final year for the Galant in the United States, though that was the model year in which the i-MiEV went on sale here. For the 2018 model year, Mitsubishi revived the Eclipse name — sort of — for the Outlander-derived Eclipse Cross compact SUV , which is still being built to this day .
Rare? Very. Valuable? No.
You could get the Eclipse Spyder with a 650-watt sound system . Driven to thrill .
