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I owned an red Eclipse turbo. It was a fun car for the four years I owned it. I was much younger and much harder on it than I am with cars today. Case in point, I was doing about 60 in 2nd gear one day when I experienced "premature" timing belt failure (49,920 miles on the car, just 80 miles inside the powertrain warranty, thank God!). It bent two valves in two places (each).
I hated the torque steer. But that car could get up to speed fast and I could bark the tires in first, second and even third gear. It wasn't expensive speed either. I paid $18k for it new in 1990.
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