No x-brace...battery and washer fluid up front. Just a guess.

 

FWIW, previous Evos sold ~12,000-14,000 units (per year) worldwide. Thinking that it makes for more than a drop in Mitsubishi's total sales is an exercise in gullibility.


I had to chuckle when I read the above. You see, I've had 2 Evos and they're the only non-German cars that I've used as personal vehicles in almost 30 years behind the wheel. From the early '70s to the early '90s, German cars offered a unique combination of quality, performance, form-follows-function styling, and driver-oriented interior design that eschewed all unnecessary gadgetry. How times have changed. Now, German cars are heavy, gadget-laden, unreliable poseur boxes. I can almost hear the uncontrollable laughter that would have resulted from a demand for amenities in a German car 20 years ago, yet here we are. Ironically, cars like the Evo deliver more of the original German promise than the current crop of rolling sofas from Europe.

 

Considering the low production volume of about 1,000 cars a month, that would make for even higher overhead cost in production then a higher volume car. If they sell 1,000 cars a month and only make a $2k profit on each one hypothetically speaking. That would be about a whopping $24 million dollars in profit. By the time you pay the big wigs, that's not enough to keep you out of the red in a billion dollar industry.

2007 fiscal year isn't up yet but mitsu predicts selling about 1.3 million vehicles by the end of the 2007 year. Considering the profit margin on the EVO couldn't be any better then mitsu's other vehicles due to very low volume, 12,000-14,000 seems tiny compared to 1.3 million vehicles total. Sure every little bit helps, but it's not going to save the day.

Like i said, i don't think mitsu went this route to make the evo a part of their bread and butter sales, but rather just to keep from losing money and stay in the black by launching this model.

 

Well no matter what I have a feeling they're going to have a tough time being in the Black.

 

Every Mitsu dealer I've talked to claims it's the new Lancer that's saving Mitsubishi. They can't seem to keep them at the dealership, they are selling so quick...yet I very rarely see them driving around...

 

we have a lot of them driving around here, as well as the new outlanders

 

Yeah, I've seen maybe 5 myself, they've been out for almost a year. So in my area, that's 1 every 2 months. That's not good.

 

I definitely don't see too many of them around here in SoCal.

 

I have a IX and I've had 3 sets of clubs in the trunk. Each of those bags with 45" drivers.

 

Way to bump a 5 month old thread dude.

Paging Noize!

 

I see at least 2 a day, seriously. All different too.

 

Once you remove the spare, tool kit and the styrofoam holding the tools...the trunk is actually pretty roomy.

 

So, only remove 2 of the 3 (the other being the sub-woofer) most important things the vehicle carries in the trunk?

 

yea the whole not begin able 2 fold the back seat sucks

 

The spare tire, jack and tools weigh in at close to 50 lbs plus your trunk floor drops a few inches making it actually semi usefull again. You can bet I removed that extra weight. As for the seats themselves I bet you could have a something worked up custom, although I'm not sure if a strut bar of any kind could replace the cross braces in there effectively.