If you look at the breakdown, Mitsu is loosing most of the sales in the SUVs not the cars. If you take cars only, they are down only ~11-12%. It is the economic downturn + gas price increases that are getting them....for some reason, the galant continues to sell more than last year, for that I have no explantion.

 

well when the finance banks and the government throwing the towel in, there is not much hope for car sale. Right now as i see everybody try to hang on. Instead to get a new performance ride...
At least the smart ones.

 

What breakdown are you referring to? I didn't see one. As far as I know, Mitsu hasn't posted official sales number by model for the month. If you can find it, we'd all love to see it. Otherwise, you're just speculating at this point

 

They're stupid as **** for that too, let them lose money on cars sitting there rotting. they'll learn...

Yup, it's ultra rare

 

Not speculation:http://www.reuters.com/article/econo...30052820081001
......Sept 2008 ......Sept 2007 ......% Change
All Vehicles ....... 7,378 .....12,102 ......-36.5%
Domestic Car ....... 3,996 ....... 4,484 ....... -7.2%
Domestic Truck ....... 573 ....... 3,525 ....... -83.1%
Import Car ....... 1,835 ....... 2,458 ....... -22.2%
Import Truck ....... 974 ....... 1,635 ....... -37.9%
Dom+Imp Cars ....... 5,831 ....... 6,942 ....... -12.5%
Dom+Imp Trucks ....... 1,547 ....... 5,160 ....... -68.8%
Domestic Vehicles ....... 4,569 ....... 8,009 ....... -40.6%
Imported Vehicles ....... 2,809 ....... 4,093 ....... -28.5%

....... Yr-to-Date ....... Prev Year ....... % Change
All Vehicles ....... 80,105 ....... 105,826 ....... -24.3%
Domestic Car ....... 38,880 ....... 43,984 ....... -11.6%
Domestic Truck ....... 7,131 ....... 15,623 ....... -54.4%
Import Car ....... 23,821 ....... 26,212 ....... -9.1%
Import Truck ....... 10,273 ....... 20,007 ....... -48.7%
Dom+Imp Cars ....... 62,701 ....... 70,196 ....... -10.7%
Dom+Imp Trucks ....... 17,404 ....... 35,630 ....... -51.2%
Domestic Vehicles ....... 46,011 ....... 59,607 ....... -22.8%
Imported Vehicles ....... 34,094 ....... 46,219 ....... -26.2%
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jimm, thanks for posting the chart

 

i'm lost what this chart suppose to do with the Evo sales numbers?
help me.

 

It's not really showing Evo X sales numbers. Just showing, that overall, Mitsu sales are down across the board...but the majority of their downfall is currently in the Endeavor, Outlander and Raider.

 

not a surprise when we have a 1939 situation in here...

 

This is very interesting. I wonder how soon before 's demise

 

A 1939 situation? You mean the end of the great depression as signaled by the upswing in the economy due to WWII ?

 

yeah eye saw that two I think he meant 1929. This time the gov't has intervened and prevented bankers from jumping off the top floor of their nearest high-rise institution (unfortunately) as they all went home with nice severance packages...but anyways,

If you have money it is a good time to buy if you know you have job security. You can do what I did and get a car mostly paid for and the rest on a zero percent CC loan with no lien against the vehicle. If things get bad, I can pay less or walk away from the card if I find myself in a soup line (but keep my 2008 C6 ).

Another thing..the dollar has been climbing against a lot of foreign currencies for the last few weeks now. The price of oil is down (since nobody can afford to drive or fly anywhere) and commodities are up so the mining related business I'm in is popping. You won't get $5k-$10k off your dream car next year...maybe some suv's, but not the cool stuff since they will scale back production.

low interest loans might dry up too- get your cheap rides while you can (if you can).

 

sorry 1929.
And they ripped off the average people with the last grand slam....

 

very interesting

 

Dude, what commodities are you looking at. Metals (other than gold a panic "currency") are falling like bricks, the steel industry is collapsing (which will trickle down to Coal eventually), grains have puked, and building in China has stopped completely(driving a lot of the prior insanity). This will take longer to work out than most think and people will be throwing their sports cars overboard to save their houses which will fall another 10% anyway. A friend of mine just bought a 120Kish German car in the mid 70's , about a year old with low miles. Any of you thinking of buying used cars should wait a bit, that market is gauranteed to get uglier since the unemployment is just now picking up steam.

Another thing..the dollar has been climbing against a lot of foreign currencies for the last few weeks now. The price of oil is down (since nobody can afford to drive or fly anywhere) and commodities are up so the mining related business I'm in is popping. You won't get $5k-$10k off your dream car next year...maybe some suv's, but not the cool stuff since they will scale back production.

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