Ford Pinto
Offered with an inline-4 engine and bucket seats the Pinto's mechanical design was conventional, with unibody construction, a longitudinally mounted engine in front driving the rear wheels through either a manual or automatic transmission and live axle rear end. Suspension was by unequal-length control arms with front coil springs; the live rear axle was suspended on leaf springs. The rack and pinion steering had optional power assist, as did the brakes.
Mitsubishi GTO
The GTO, 3000GT and Stealth were noted for their transverse 3-liter, 24-valve V6 engines (naturally aspirated or with twin-turbochargers), active aerodynamics (automatically adjusting front and rear spoilers), four-wheel-steering, full-time all-wheel-drive and adaptive suspension. Mitsubishi also marketed a retractable hardtop variant, engineered and converted from coupé models in California by ASC and marketed as the "GTO Spyder" or "VR4 Spyder" for MY 1995–1996. – the first fully automated retractable hardtop since the 1959 Ford Skyliner.