Depends, is the lancer Mitsubishi's flagship car?
OT, we get the Smart car here and I'm pretty sure it's turbo diesel.

 

Yeah, the Lancer line is the best seller for Mitsu. As for the Smart Car, it's a gasoline engine (1.0 3 cylinder making about 70hp.) Many more diesels are destined for the US, however. VW is bringing back all their diesel options. MB, Saab, Volvo, BMW, and Honda all have plans to have diesel options available in the US market within the next 2-3 years. Automakers definitely realize that now is a great time to reintroduce diesels to the US, and Mitsu would be wise to jump onto that bandwagon.

 

You sure it's even a gasoline motor up here? Anyways, if the lancer is mitsubishi's flagship car, it's only natural that many models would be available.

 

Canadians get diesel, sorries. I was looking at what's being introduced in the US.

 

That's what we were talking about yesterday. The Lancer being there best seller at the time. The Raider dropped off. The outlander was hot right when it came out, but now it's the Lancer's turn on top for a while.


They also were talking about something similar to the smart car that Mitsu makes. Just another of of those tuny cars that everyone else has, and we don't cause the crash test ratings, ect. He said this one's a 1.0l turbo 4 door. very very narrow.
I walked in the class room when they were talking about a small car. Then one of the teachers said something about one having a busa engine in it. I said, "A smart car??" I knew right away, haha.

 

here's the vid of the smart w/busa motor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPQIizRp9ck

 

on another note, it looks like mitsu in japan is calling the new lancer that we got the Galant Fortis over there:

http://www.mitsubishi-motors.co.jp/g...eup/index.html

and the old Lancer we had is still there but with a measly 1.5L sohc 4 pushing 90 PS:

http://www.mitsubishi-motors.co.jp/l...eup/index.html

& here's the redesigned i car with a design similar to the Smart but with less power & slightly smaller engine (3B20 .66L vs 3B21 1L in the '08 usdm Smart):

http://www.mitsubishi-motors.co.jp/i...ce/index.html#

 

Actually it has been know for almost a year that Mitsubishi is going to introduce a line of diesel engines by 2010 http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/01...iesel-by-2010/

They also announced flex-fuel compatible engines for US market by 2009, http://www.motorauthority.com/cars/m...us-and-brazil/

 

I love google translations.

http://translate.google.com/translat...hl=en&ie=UTF-8