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Replying to: oldfarmer50 (Jul 10, 2008 12:03 pm) I have never personally seen a high mileage (greater than 150K) 3.8, or the new V6 they use in the Outlander. Do you run premium in your 3.8, or have you tried a lower grade?
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I live in Normal, Illinois and here is the latest news on the Illinois plant buyout for 105 employees. According to Dan Irvin, "He blames high oil prices and conservative consumer attitudes for the sales slowdown." Read the article! It's interesting ~ I happen to agree with Dave82. Many residents of Bloomington-Normal have predicted it's closing. The latest 'rumor' is it will be turned into another Illinois Correctional Institution! Who knows what the forcast holds. I wouldn't be surprised if the US dove into another era like the Great Depression, even though the government has a safety net to keep it from happening again. Just a thought guys!
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Replying to: 1racefan (Jul 10, 2008 2:47 pm) Yes. I've heard of others trying to cheap out and getting knocking. Also the gap between RUG and premium isn't that great anymore. When RUG was $1.50 and premium was $1.70 that was a bigger difference than when RUG is $4.15 and premium is $4.35. My 2.5L runs on regular and both seem to take the same amount to fill. The 3.8L actually gets a few miles more per gallon than the 2.5L. Go figure. |
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Replying to: dflores2 (Jul 10, 2008 6:34 pm) Wow! Mitsu becomes a prison and the US goes down the tubes. Finally, someone with a more pessimistic outlook than me. 
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Today Mitsu announced sales of 9694 units for July down 6.8% from July 2007. The good news is that the car line sold 7527 units an increase of 8.6% from July 2007. Their total sales for July were up 28.7% from last month. So Mitsu isn't doing too bad in this REALLY tough market. GM was down something like 27% from last year. BTW, did anyone catch the comparison between the Lancer Raliart, Subie WRI and the Mazda Speed3? They said the Lancer was almost as good as the Speed 3. Too bad they're sending all the Lancers to Russia.
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Replying to: oldfarmer50 (Aug 01, 2008 4:28 pm) The Normal built cars showed improvement too! "...comparison between the..." I saw that car shoot out. That Speed3 must be an absolute beast because it is rare that an "older" car can beat newer ones in such comparisons. It looked liked the Mitsu was "out-tired" by the Mazda. Maybe if the Lancer had some summer tires (or wider) on it, things would have been a little closer. At any rate, hats off to Mazda. "Too bad they're sending all the Lancers to Russia" The Lancer is doing well world wide and I think Mitsu is gonna start building Lancers and Outlanders (Peugeot and Citroen versions) in Russia. |
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Inside Line has a partial posting of this report. It can be found in it's entirety at jd power or copy and paste this... http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SavingandDebt/SaveonaCar/SaveonaCarDyn.aspx- ?cp-documentID=9144409 The industry average improved to 206 problems per 100 vehicles, from 216 a year ago. Lexus is number one with 120 problems on average. Mitsu comes in at number 12 at 197. There are a total of 37 makes (brands) on the list |
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| an improvement in quality, then, wouldn't you? I don't recall where Mitsu was last year in this study but I don't think they were even in the top half of carmakers as far as total numbers of problems on average goes. | |
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In my area Mitsu is running some ads which tout their "Phenomenal Four". Lancer, Eclipse, Outlander and Galant. It's basicly a way to brag about the MIVEC engines on those vehicles. They don't tell you what MIVEC does or even what it is though. The ad has a tone like the beginning of a "superhero" movie with camera angles that make it look like the cars are flying. I think the ads are kind of cute but is the public so dumb that they wouldn't understand a more technical explaination? I love the MIVEC heads on my Eclipse. There is a noticable increase in power just when you need it above 4000 RPM. The only problem is that by the time you hit 4000 you're already doing 80. 
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I gotta say that if I was the sort of bloke that didn't study cars on the net before they came out Mitsubishi's commercials would help starting me focus on the Lancer, Eclipse or Outlander SUV. I don't mind this latest "Phenomenal Four" deal going, but, like I say, commercials can only edumacate us so much, eh? It's about time to take my '08 Lancer GTS in for another 'Auto Butler' paint polishing and protectant treatment. This will be the third one applied. And by the time I go in there, I'm almost happy to pay them the $9.95 to clean the car real well beforehand, too.  With the nasty bug guts accumulated on the front of my baby. 
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