gizmotoy

This news doesn't look good. There are rumors swirling all over the place today saying that Mitsubishi is pulling out of NA. They missed union deadlines for new models, and now an executive has resigned that won't be replaced.

Things aren't looking good for

http://www.leftlanenews.com/mitsubis...-question.html

19EVO91

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Ill never beleve any of this. Tons of stuff was being said bout ralliarts. And nothing changed and they r still here

stefan.bounket

If this does lead to Mitsubishi withdrawing from the US market... I will probably cry and then go buy a subaru...

Pal215

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This would suck considerably. However, wouldn't this bring the price of the evo up??

akeric

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Just buy a used one.

madfast

mitsu isnt going to stop selling cars in the US. they'll just import all their cars from japan instead of make them here.

mirebih

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I see the price of Evo going up then. VII and IX will be rare cars in few years

cbr1000

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I've never really liked leftlanenews.com

Someone from Mitsubishi is retiring. No big deal.

I personally think that all of what's going on at the normal IL plant is going to bring cheaper prices to evo... why?

Right now EVO's are made in Japan and shipped here. They are going to do away with older platforms and it would be cheaper for mits to make EVO in US and ship small cars from Japan..

I guess we will see what happens, but I laugh at the idea Mitsubishi will pull out of the US.

I'm guessing the 350hp turbodiesal hybrid will come from IL in 2013, but that's just a guess.

mc auley

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well the word in the uk is that they are not makin a evo xi. in mitsubishi make a new evo every 3 years so the xi is due now in a few month. and no word off it

heavyD

All of their slow selling models are the large platform ones made in Illinois so none of this is surprising as they want to focus on smaller cars. Really I can't believe this is news as 20+ year managers have been receiving early retirement packages at many companies since the recession. It's called trimming the fat as after 20 years she was probably making far too much money to justify for her position.

macPSU

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Wow, that's the furthest thing from lean I've ever heard; all of that capacity going to waste. It's no wonder a replacement supply chain chief isn't needed.

cbr1000

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yup, leftlane is just really digging deep to come up with a story. I bet every car manufacture in the world has had executives retire over the past 1-2 years...

JimGVT

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They have usually made a new model every five years - so 2013 is the timeframe for the XI from everything I have seen.

gizmotoy

How do you figure? There's been a new Evo every 1-2 years since it's introduction ('92, '94, '95, '96, '98, '99, '01, '03, '05, '07 (as a 2008)). The 3 years we've been on the X is already the longest the Evo has ever gone without a refresh.

erald01

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i would not be surprise whatsoever if mitsu left NA, because they are doing the worst on automotive selling in NA and they have been that way since late 90's early 2000's, believe it or not they survive on evo sellings and those little box truck you see around. My good friend worked for mitsu as an engineer and he said evo is the only car that is well put together and makes them the most money. Everything else is waaaay overpriced and cheaply made, ohh yeah their suv's love to rollover. Thats why their warranty sucks too, because they are not making enough money selling cars to support the warranties.