The Galant is Mitsubishi's entry in the very competitive mid-size sedan market segment. The Galant is a four door sedan that can carry up to five passengers. The Galant is a competent sedan with excellent crash test ratings and good power. The vehicle features a front wheel drive layout, and four wheel drive is not available. The Galant is available with only one engine option, a 2.4 liter four cylinder powerplant that features multi-point fuel injection and four valves per cylinder. A six cylinder optional engine has been dropped for the 2010 model year.
 The four cylinder engine is rated at one hundred sixty horsepower at five thousand five hundred revolutions per minute, and one hundred fifty-seven pound feet of torque at four thousand revolutions per minute. The four cylinder is mated to a four speed automatic transmission that features the "sportronic" option. The sportronic feature allows the driver drive to manually change the transmission gears rather than relying on the automatic transmission. This feature does not affect the fuel economy of the Galant. The Galant returns twenty-one miles per gallon in city driving, and thirty miles per gallon on the highway circuit. These fuel economy ratings are given by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. It is not recommended that the driver use the Galant to tow anything, and Mitsubishi does not rate a towing capacity for the Galant. The maximum load rating for the Galant is eight hundred twenty-five pounds; carrying a load larger than this rating will lessen the fuel economy of the Galant.

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