$2000 Challenge: A Colt GTS Turbo, the hot hatch from Plymouth

David S.
By David S. Wallens
Jan 22, 2025 | $2000 Challenge, Plymouth, Plymouth Colt

Photography Credit: Mark Langello

  • Entrant: Leslie Burchett
  • Event year: 2006
  • Budget spent: $912.01

Back in the day, just about every dealership offered a hot hatch–including Plymouth with its turbocharged, Mitsubishi-based Colt GTS Turbo. “It required a lot of bodywork,” quipped Leslie Burchett of his 1987 example, “but I didn’t do hardly any of it.” 

He did, however, add nitrous, a front-mounted intercooler and sticky Nitto drag tires. It ran a respectable 13.9 on the quarter.

Make your own low-buck memories at the Grassroots Motorsports $2000 Challenge Presented by Tire Rack, held March 29-30, 2025.

The Grassroots Motorsports $2000 Challenge is Presented by Tire Rack, in Association with HPX Show, A&A ManufacturingBendPakCRC Industries and Miller Electric.

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Comments
Jettaman
Jettaman New Reader
1/23/25 1:58 p.m.

Damn good 1/4 mile time for Colt Turbo.

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