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The awkward case of 'his or her'. Test your vocabulary with our question quiz! Choose the Right Synonym for mirage delusion , illusion , hallucination , mirage mean something that is believed to be true or real but that is actually false or unreal. Examples of mirage in a Sentence A peaceful solution proved to be a mirage. Was that whole North Korea summit thing a mirage?

Give us your tired and poor, Americans say, just not those ones," 24 May Now, as the afterglow of the Trump-Kim tete-a-tete wears off the prospect of any kind of easy North Korean solution is looking — unsurprisingly — like a mirage. First Known Use of mirage , in the meaning defined at sense 1. Learn More about mirage. Resources for mirage Time Traveler! Explore the year a word first appeared.

Listen to Our Podcast about mirage. Get Word of the Day daily delivered to your inbox everyday! Dictionary Entries near mirage miraculous miraculous fruit mirador mirage Miramar Miranda Miranda rights. Time Traveler for mirage The first known use of mirage was in See more words from the same year. More Definitions for mirage. English Language Learners Definition of mirage. Lancer Fiore received the same 1. Apart from the wider axle track dictated by the switch to front-wheel drive, the original era Lancer offered a similar dimensional footprint. Mitsubishi distinguished the GT with a hood mounted air intake , unique interior, uprated suspension and brakes, and the equalization of the drive shaft lengths to reduce torque steering.

At the same time as the GT, a limited edition trim joined range, with the Super Edition and Mariee versions launched later in Chrysler imported this generation of Mirage to the North America as the Dodge Colt and Plymouth Champ from late for the model year , [3] in three-door form only until the model year when the five-door was added. The facelifted model was also manufactured as the Colt by Mitsubishi Motors Australia [8] at their Clovelly Park, South Australia plant from [17] to late , with sufficient inventory stockpiled not exhausting until The RE update was distinguished by revised wheel covers, body side projection mouldings, and grille, plus the addition of body colour bumpers.

This model was also briefly exported to New Zealand in the late s, where it shared showroom space with the locally assembled third generation models. Many export markets, such as Europe and Australia received the Mirage under the Colt name. In the United Kingdom, where Colt was the marque itself, it was called the Colt and Colt , after the engine displacements.

In most of Europe, it was sold as the Mitsubishi Colt. The Lancer Fiore sometimes called Lancer F arrived in early , which is also when the facelift appeared in Europe. Mitsubishi launched the second generation Mirage to Japan in , again splitting the range into Mirage three- and five-door hatchback, plus four-door sedan and Lancer Fiore four-door sedan models.

A station wagon version of the Mirage was added in , with a four-wheel drive wagon available from the fall of with the 1. This wagon model went on to become very popular in both the commercial and private sectors overseas as well as in Japan. Cseries chassis numbers denote front-wheel-drive models, while Cseries numbers are for four-wheel-drive versions only station wagons. Uprated engines were deployed into the series; 1. Mitsubishi also released variants fitted with the 1. Some European markets received a smaller 1. The car received a very mild facelift in early , along with some new engine options for the Japanese domestic market.

The transmissions were updated at the same time. The Lancer sedan was available in the same trim levels as the hatchback model but not with the engine , while the wagon versions were available as GLX and GL diesel only. Some markets also received the 4WD Wagon with the larger 1. Versions equipped with catalytic converters first became available in Europe in , at the same time as the wagon was introduced.

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The Mirage was not sold in the United States by Mitsubishi until Curiously, Mitsubishi marketed the Mirage only as a three-door hatch through its own American dealers despite the five-door model having repeatedly been rejected in favor of the Dodge Omni by Chrysler's marketing organization. A commercial version of the wagon was sold in New Zealand as the Mitsubishi Express, replacing an earlier model based on the Galant Sigma.

The two-seater commercial type was sold in the Netherlands simply as the "Mitsubishi Wagon", whereas the better equipped passenger version was called the Lancer Station Wagon. Mitsubishi in Thailand released the three-door and sedan models with 1. The Champ was retired in In Indonesia, all models including the hatchback were sold under the Lancer nameplate. The four-door sedan formed the basis of the Proton Saga , Malaysia's first locally built car and manufactured between and Proton would later spin the Saga off into its own five-door hatchback called the Saga Aeroback in longer, and styled differently from Mitsubishi's own five-door hatchback version.

Mitsubishi introduced the more rounded, third-generation Mirage to Japan in October Masaru Furukawa headed the vehicle design, with Yasukichi Akamatsu given the role of chief engineer. The basic model, a three-door hatchback with upright tailgate and large glasshouse arrived first. The sedan, released to Japan in January was stylistically distinct with almost vertical rear glass, influenced by the larger Galant.

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The range was complemented by a five-door liftback in June , but without a station wagon variant, Mitsubishi persevered with the previous model until the release of a new wagon on the fourth generation chassis. As before, Mirage, Colt, and Lancer naming varied between markets with different body shapes often having different titles in the same market.

In Japan, sedans were available with the Mirage and Lancer nameplates, while the three-door was sold only as Mirage, and the liftback only as Lancer. Japanese Mirage sedans usually featured the "Vie Saloon" suffix. Engines available were 1. For Greece only, a 1.

In Japan, four-wheel-drive versions were also available, fitted with the carbureted 1. The top Mirages in Japan were called the "Cyborg", featuring the turbocharged 1. The third generation received a minor facelift in , with late models receiving the same engines as were seen in the subsequent generation. Mitsubishi retailed a Colt "van" in select European markets, being the three-door body without rear side windows and therefore attracting reduced taxation in these jurisdictions. Since first generation Mirages were still under Australian production as the Colt, all three third generation body types were sold under the Lancer name in that market.

Initially, the Australian-specification models were designated as the CA series when introduced in , adopting the CB designation for the facelift. The liftback continued to be sold in Australia alongside the fourth generation CC Mirage-derived Lancer from through to Confusingly, the carry-over liftback was also given this CC model designation. North American three-door and sedan sales occurred under the Mitsubishi Mirage name for the to model years.

For the Mitsubishi-badged versions, the top hatchback carried a 1. For the model year, the 1. In October , the fourth generation Mirage made its debut for the Japanese market alongside the related Lancer. Departing from the previous series, the new Mirage adopted a much rounder body shape—a change duplicated by much of the automotive industry in the earlys.

Lancer variants sold in Japan offered unique body variants—a four-windowed sedan and from May , a station wagon simply named Mitsubishi Libero. In most markets the wagon's introduction coincided with a small update for , with new bumpers and adjustments to the engine lineup.

The wagon was still sold as of in Belize , [29] however as of the model is no longer offered on the website. Unlike prior generations, the Japanese market Lancer range co-existed with greater differentiation when compared to the Mirage. The Mirage with its sportier appearance and tapered hood , featured elliptical headlamps with a very narrow single-port grille. Lancer variants diverged with more angular styling characterized by the more upright design.

The Lancer also featured re-shaped fenders, less rounded headlamps, and a larger dual-port grille. Although both were built on the same platform, the Japanese-specification Lancer sedan received different sheet metal than the Mirage equivalent. More traditional in silhouette, the Lancer sedan suffixed Vie Saloon featured a simple four-window glasshouse, whereas the Mirage sedan adopted a more modern six-window glasshouse with abbreviated trunk. Naming of the various models for export was many and varied. With the sedan, export markets only retailed the four-window variation, although this occurred under both the Lancer and Mirage names.

Mitsubishi's powertrain choices were vast with this new platform. Front-wheel drive was most common, with all-wheel drive available for some models. Engines ranged from 1. Notably, a gasoline V6 engine variant was also offered, displacing just 1. For the standard Lancer, this turbocharged 4G63 engine was an option only in the United States, but was quickly dropped in prior to the release of the Evolution I.

An electric version of the wagon was released to Japan named the "Lancer Libero EV" and utilizing a nickel—cadmium battery. Australian market versions of this generation were released in late and were officially referred to as the CC series Lancer. All engines except in the GSR are single overhead camshaft design; the GSR featured double overhead camshafts, plus a turbocharger and intercooler. This model launched in the United States for the model year as the Mirage, with all variants now sourced from Japan instead of Japan or Illinois as previously.

Mitsubishi kept the preceding generation's base 1. Mitsubishi granted Proton in Malaysia a license to the fourth generation design from —and remained in produced in a distant form until The first variant produced, the sedan was badged Proton Wira — and was complemented by a Proton-designed five-door Wira hatchback — The release of the fifth generation Mirage to Japan in October introduced a rationalized lineup as a result of the fragile post-bubble economy in Japan.

Three body types were issued: It was bumped from the subcompact class to compact in the United States. Whereas the previous Mirage sedan sold in Japan featured a six-window profile, the redesign shared its styling with the Lancer except for minor differences in trim. For the Lancer, these included a different trunk lid, amber front turn signal lamps, and a restyled grille garnish.

No station wagon of this generation was offered, although the previous generation wagon continued over the entire fifth generation production run. Between and , the Mitsubishi Carisma supplanted the sedan in some European markets. A minor facelift arrived in Of note, the Lancer sedan featured a new grille and reshaped inner-portions of the headlamps to better differentiate it from the Mirage donor model.

In , a classically styled version of the Mirage three-door hatchback became available in Japan, badged Mirage Modarc. The Modarc featured chrome for the grille, side mirrors, door handles, and bumper strips; it also included fog lights and optional alloy wheels. This means that as light passes down from cool to hot air, it gets bent upwards towards the denser air and away from the ground see diagram. To your eyes, these distorted rays seem to be coming from the ground, so you perceive a refracted image of the sky on the ground. This looks just like a reflection on the surface of a pool of water, which can easily cause confusion.

In fact, likely locations include anywhere where the ground can absorb a lot of heat. A hot ground warms up the air immediately above it, creating a sharp temperature gradient in the air — the first ingredient of a good mirage. Make sure you can see ahead of you well into the distance. The most spectacular mirages occur in wide expanses of flat land as too many hills, dips or bumps will prevent the refracted light from reaching your eyes. Check the weather forecast.

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