My local mitusbishi dealership called me today and let me know the sportback is to be brought back to the US and Canada for next year. I'm gonna drop by to talk to them next week to get any juicy details. I apologize if someone else already posted this.

This is good news as apparently mitsu are getting alot of feedback for people looking for these. My yellow sportback alone in Winnipeg is apparently getting noticed and having numerous people every weeek to drop by the mitsu dealer looking for one.

Now if only I could get the local kids to stop vandalizing it... ya, they keyed it and slashed my tires recently in response to them being charged with their window smashing vandalization from a few months back. sigh :-(

 

ive seen one of those on the road in N dallas area.....i want to see one w/ RRM turbo....that would be sick....

 

Oh Yea, We're BAD!!! It just took a while for everyone else to get caught up to up trend setters! LOL.

-Joe

 

did somebody supercharge a sportback? i believe i heard something about that. and did they make a manual sportback?

 

the sportbacks only came in autos

 

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That's good news! And one would have to assume that if they bring it back, they won't have a choice but to have the option for a manual tranny this time... or they'll get flamed by the automotive journalists one more time. Anyway, I think they now have a better idea of why it didn't sell... hell, even I was gonna buy one until I learned it only came with an A/T!!!

Anyway, interesting info. It remains to be seen if these guys can be trusted though... Last year the salesmen at the local dealer would have swore to you that the EVO was gonna be in their showroom no later than at this very moment (they said "it's gonna come to Canada as an '06 model"). Did you see any EVO when you went for your last oil change??? I sure didn't...

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Well, they used to only come in autos. If they're really coming back then maybe, just maybe, Mitsu will realize there is a market for wagons with manuals and give us the real deal

 

I would have liked a sportback if it had a stick. Wagons kick ***. I didn't need one since my wife has one and I wanted a little bit better pickup then a mazda 3 or a matrix XRS. I also wanted to pay less then both of those cars cost.

 

I plan to supercharge mine but 1 of my tuner friends down here "Colo" wants to Turbo it....Puerto Rican Style...(he worked with the the Pepe Galant VR4...world fastest AWD Galant: 9.8s@144mph ). Right now the proyect is on hold until I get more money to burn on it, maybe next year.

 

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This might be of interest to you guys:

http://media.mitsubishi-motors.com/p...etail1335.html

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Hmmmm, interesting:

"Over the next three years we will also be introducing five new models in North America..."

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Here are my guesses:


New Lancer sedan and Sportback, 2008 model year

EVO X, 2008 model year

3 doors and 5 doors Colt, 2007 model year

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