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| New issue of Road & Track tests the new EVO against the Subaru STi on the race track. The EVO excelled in every category. | |
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Replying to: oldfarmer50 (Feb 22, 2008 8:57 am) More supply + less demand =lower prices. Correct? Personally I don't think that once the electric car is a proven product it will ever go away. It is simply to efficient and practical, especially in an urban environment, for people to completely return to all-fuel vehicles. I think most people will have one or two of each. I plan on getting a Miev ASAP when they become available in the U.S. I don't figure on using it to travel on vacations or haul pigs to market but it will be the get-grocery-pick-up-kids-see-movie-do-whatever vehicle. If the electric vehicle battery technology can improve even half as quickly as something like computer chip technology has done then the inner city is going to be seriously quiet in about ten years. A decently priced, reliable all-electric vehicle combined with mass production capability and an existing dealership structure... Can't wait.
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Replying to: elgatoloco (Feb 22, 2008 8:16 pm) Where I live there are two companies working on what may be the replacement technology for the internal combustion engine; fuel cells. One company has fuel cell back-up electric generators (big) and the other is developing fuel cell batteries for computers and phones (small). The next step is to develop hydrogen fuel cell engines for cars. Honda has already started a program for this. It would be nice to have cars you could run basicly on water and give the finger to the oil cartels. |
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Replying to: rockylee (Jan 22, 2007 12:35 pm) As far as North America in general, Mitsubishi stated that the current economic slowdown would probably cause new car sales to slump and so during this time MMNA would mainly try to focus on improving customer satisfaction and increasing dealership profitability. They also mentioned that upcoming models ( here and worldwide ) would feature their new automated manual twin clutch SST, newer more powerful clean diesel engines and also improved AWD capabilities. Amidst all the other factoids was a brief message concerning the Lancer Sportback which I posted in that thread. |
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I was re-reading some old posts here and stumbled on a reference to the Mitsu 6G7 engine which I have in my Eclipse. As I read the Wikipedia link I discovered that the 3.8L engine I have in my Eclipse is the same basic motor that I have in my Chrysler Cirrus. I was surprised that using the same engine they could come up with a 2.5L in that application. Further reading showed that they made engines as small a 2.0L as well. I had no idea that they could make such a wide variety of displacements out of the same basic motor. Live and learn. BTW, the 2.5L in my Chrysler now has 101K on it and still purrs like a kitten. I hope the 3.8L works as well. Both are extremely smooth running engines. Is the 2.0L in the Lancer the same motor? I would assume not because that is a 4cyl.
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Replying to: oldfarmer50 (Mar 01, 2008 6:39 am) Now has the wife driven that 3.8L yet or is she still afraid of it?  Speaking of sharing, I found the interesting article about Mitsu and Nissan. Click here or read below March 3, 2008 Nissan and Mitsubishi to expand supply agreement Tokyo, Japan - Nissan Motor Company and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation have announced an agreement to expand their original equipment manufacturing (OEM) supply involving mini-cars for Japanese and overseas markets. The two companies currently have OEM agreements in Japan, where Mitsubishi supplies Nissan with mini-cars and small light commercial vehicles, while Nissan supplies light commercial vehicles to Mitsubishi. Under the expanded agreement, Mitsubishi will supply its Pajero mini SUV to Nissan, starting in the fall of 2008, for the Japanese market, and the two companies will explore opportunities for expanded light commercial vehicle supply for Japanese and overseas markets. www.canadiandriver.com
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Click here for Mitsu Sales Site March 3, 2008 -- Cypress, Calif. -- Mitsubishi Motors today announced total February 2008 sales of 9,105. Galant was the volume leader at 2,424, up 16.4% from last February's volume and up 22.2% calendar year-to-date. Eclipse closed at 2,079 up 6.8% from last February's volume. This was Eclipse's best February in six years. Lancer closed at 1,647 up 48.4% for February and up 14.1% calendar year-to-date. Eclipse Spyder sales were 890, up 29.0% for the month and 58.2% calendar year-to-date. Overall Mitsubishi sales were off 6.4% for February compared to February 2007 sales of 9,726.
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Replying to: mikevegas06 (Mar 03, 2008 9:33 am) Not yet. The weather here has been so bad that I haven't driven it much either. I still have less than 500 miles on it. Every time we get an inch of snow (every other day) they put down two inches of salt. We finally got some rain today and it's supposed to be sunny tomorrow so I'll take it to work. Yippeee!
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Replying to: mikevegas06 (Mar 03, 2008 8:56 pm) Once they found out what the old farmer was driving....everybody had to have one.  BTW, I was driving past my Mitsu dealer today and they had what looked to be a Lancer Raliart on display out front. The color was either Rally Red or Rave Red (was going too fast to tell for sure) with a blacked out grill and a lot of nice looking ground effects. Very impressive looking. I guess I'm glad they didn't have one when I was buying. I might be driving something different. Iluv had better stay away from the dealers, I don't think he could resist this sweet machine.
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Any clues as to when the EVO MR will be out? I've been thinking I might just pony up for one even tho it will dent my budget. I've heard the GSR is out at a few dealerships but not here and the dealer says maybe a month, but they have said that every month. Also will the EVO have roadside assistance? The dealer seems to not be very well informed and they have lost a lot of sales staff due to the poor economy. Thanks
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