I've been watching a new X locally. It's dropped $2500 in the last month.

Now at $27850, I'm so tempted.

 

In the past, Mitsubishi has been relatively late in releasing the Evo's compare to the model year (Typically new models arrive in Aug/Sept). Around the corner 2010 models could be close to a year away.

 

new?!?!

where at? what color?

 

Brand new! Just checked, still there. RC HILL in Deland, FL. Silver. He's got a couple at great price's.

 

Someone check it out and chime in. I don't want to be called a liar when it's gone.

 

Its true checked it out online, blue one for about the same price 2.. nice find

 

Thanks kbittn03. The price has dropped alot in the last month. I just wonder how low you'll see them in a month or two.

 

WTF, crazy prices. I should return mine for store credit

 

If that's what they're unloading EVOs for.. I wonder what a Ralliart could be had for? With the sportback Ralliart on the horizon, that is damned tempting!

 

WOW They dropped the price $500 more today. $27,301.

COMING SOON!!!!! Buy an Outlander get a EVO half off! LOL

 

Loaded Ralliart was same price.

 

Don't believe everything you read in the mags, they're a bunch of sell outs anyway. All the manufactures are hurting. The parent Mistu corp is a huge company. Just because they got out of Dakar doesn't mean much, like Honda got out of F1. They'll both be back when things turn around.

Be that as it may, Mitsu in NA is poorly marketed. The service end also has problems. Individual dealers can make a difference but in general the support is problematic.

From a tech's standpoint it's the documentation that's lacking. I don't think it's Mitsubishi themselves so much as the choices they made for documentation. It's the same service manuals as Isuzu so it must be an outside contractor. They are some of the worst in the industry, not intuitive, info is not organized or easy to find and pictures are poor or non-existant.

Hard copy manuals are no longer available and the way it's formatted online makes the sub-par manuals even worse. The auto technician base in the US is thin already. When you go away from hard copy you alienate a large segment of the techs out there. I consider myself highly computer literate, if I'm having trouble then the average tech is going to be discouraged to the point of going elsewhere. That's exactly what happened at my dealer, they went through about 6 techs before me. Part of that is the size of the dealers, you just can't get most highly qualified techs to be interested in a small "off" brand.

The cars are pretty nice though. Most of the Japanese brands there's very little difference in the quality/reliability, they're all a hair's breadth apart.

Coming from Honda, they are no better, worse in some places like the V6 AT's that drop like flies. It's marketing, it's perception.

The EVO really is a standout though, it's an example of what Mitsu is capable of. Honda doesn't have anything that comes close. EVO beats the S2000 and the NSX, and it's way more practical of a daily driver.

They should make a high mileage daily driver though if they really want to take off. (I'm not sure the Miev is it) Something to compete with the Prius, that's the direction things are going. They've had plenty of time to see the direction. If they spent just a fraction of the effort that went into the tech of the EVO they could compete with Toyota in this area.

 

Dude. I am so glad you are here and said that. When people tell me how much better Toyotas and Hondas are and how they would never consider a Mitsubishi it makes me sick. I worked at a Honda dealer for a short time and I saw things go wrong with them that I could never imagine. I do think Honda makes great cars mind you, but I WOULD NEVER OWN ONE OF THEIR V6 AUTO vehicles. I also couldn't believe how many Odys would break, but through it all Honda would maintain their sterling reputation. Meanwhile I never heard of any V6 Galants, Eclipse or Endeavors (or any modern Mitsu) having anywhere near the chronic problems they did, even if you scale up for the fact that there's probably 5-10 times as many Hondas on the road for any given model of Mitsubishi.

 

I own both, a honda and a mitsubishi. my 1988 galant sigma made in nagoya, japan, nobody wants to touch it saying it is a piece of crap. you know why, they don't know how to fix it(mitsu tech). after getting the service manual from japan, it looks very much bulletproof, which until now the ECS is still working sans the aircompressor which I got an aftermarket one. my 6G72 SOHC engine is still intact at 210K miles including the tranny with the usual O/D slip kit which fixed it. my 02 honda civic was poorly made but stout in terms of reliability and gave excellent mileage. the pilot had a lot of tranny issues(not mine) according to my other forum but they wipe the TSB's under the rug by fixing it immediately before it becomes big. they installed an afterthought oil jet kit to fix the premature breakdown of the pilots tranny early on instead of waiting for it to breakdown down the road. like you said, perception.

 

That Sigma is awesome. One day I'm going to run accross one and scoop it up. I'm not sure if the Cordia or Tredia are built as well, but I see the sane mint Tredia from time to time and always wonder about it.

Yeah, the TSB thing is wild, I don't know how they get away with it. Some Odyssey's they offered a special extended powertrain warranty on, this back when 3/36 was it. I'm not sure what they did when they started offering 5/60 powertrain warranty, but I'm sure they had to do something. A friend worked at the Acura dealer two doors down and he'd tell me the same thing about the RLs and TL's, always with trans issues. I always thought it was cool that Honda offered a stick on just about everything, I'd do a 4cyl manual Accord, but that was about it as everything else they made (other then the S2000) was either too weird or too blah for me.

Mitsu, I believe, just never took cars or our market very seriously. Its like they said, "Well we do fighter jets, electronics, textiles, beer, heavy machinery, big banking, real estate, super freighters, the space program, blah blah, we might as well give cars a shot." But they never managed it right, leaving it up to Chrysler to sell their cars at first, then half assing it through the 80's and 90's, then leaving it up the Germans to do it after that, and now finally trying to do it right themselves in the middle of a global recession. At least with them being small it doesn't hurt them as bad as Toyota who I believe has sold their soul to conquer GM and the American market, but they should be doing better then they are.