Mitsu in 2016
Let's wait 7 years and see what's gonna happen.
"assuming we all don't get flushed by Earth in December 21'st 2012 (two days before my birthday... call that an early Bday present... "
Man, 122112 or whatever is a joke. Can't believe people really believe stuff like that.
People said world WAS gonna end on 1992, 1995, 1999, 2000 etc.
"assuming we all don't get flushed by Earth in December 21'st 2012 (two days before my birthday... call that an early Bday present... "
Man, 122112 or whatever is a joke. Can't believe people really believe stuff like that.
People said world WAS gonna end on 1992, 1995, 1999, 2000 etc.
Probably typical of any low production 7-12 year old car. I don't think anything drastic will happen to their value. Cars will still be running on gasoline, just less of it.
There's a big dispute going on with the EPA right now on just how that will work. We'll see a bit of what happenes with the Chevy Volt as it is supposed to be able to do 40-60 miles using no gas and right now, that would mean infinite mileage under the current means of testing a car's mileage. I don't know how a purely electric vehicle plays into that, but it has to help some.
That's the plan from what I understand. Mitsu will soon be repositioning themselves as a maker of small, light, effecient cars. They are skipping hybrids all together and working on all electric vehicles as well as making clean turbodiesels. Plus they are small, so this ramp up of requirements won't hurt them as bad as say, Toyota, who has a plethora of thirsty trucks and SUVs.
That's the plan from what I understand. Mitsu will soon be repositioning themselves as a maker of small, light, effecient cars. They are skipping hybrids all together and working on all electric vehicles as well as making clean turbodiesels. Plus they are small, so this ramp up of requirements won't hurt them as bad as say, Toyota, who has a plethora of thirsty trucks and SUVs.
The endeavor isn't a gas guzzler (at least that's what I think). Our '06 Endeavor has about the same interior/cargo space & gas mileage as the '06 Honda Pilot, but we got it for so much cheaper & even rides/handles better than the honda. I average 19-20 MPG on 50/50 highway/city miles... which is only 1-2 MPG shy of our EvoX.
The Raider is for sure doomed. What the plan is for the three cars that the Normal, IL plant builds (Eclipse, Galant, Endeavor) has yet to be revealed. All three ride on the Project America platform which is getting old, and is bit too big unwieldy for what Mitsu claims is going to be their focus, and that is small, economical and light cars. They will probably wait until it is time to upgrade the Lancer platform, and then introduce longer versions of it to build the Galant and possibly a larger crossover for us. They even talk about bringing the Montero back, but I don't see how that would happen.
¸I predict that my evox will do 40 mpg in 2016...well maybe evo xIII lol. how? well they will change a mile 1,6km into 1km,lol....hahahaha sorry I'm funny and happy today...maybe because I'm putting my TOYO PROXES T1R tomorrow morning,lol.
While I know you're joking, that idea is a bunch of crap. Guatemala is a second home to me, and if you ask the natives what they think about it, they've never heard of such a ridiculous theory. Every time I ask someone about it, they laugh and laugh and laugh at how crazy we could be to come up with such a far fetched story. They simply tell you that it's the end of one era, and the beginning of another. Nothing more.
according to this mitsu might get exempt-
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124873997073285323.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124873997073285323.html
the only diesel vehicle confirmed by Mitsubishi will be their Concept RA for 2011, which might just end up being the new Eclipse with S-AWC and a bunch of Evo X crap




