do you write for one of the major papers?

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I think Mitsubishi have only themselves to blame. They flogged off the crappy smoking Magnas for years and years and shot themselves in the foot.

It’s very difficult to rebuild your image when even today you drive behind an older Magna and see all the smoke and hear all the rattles from the engine.

Wasn’t it reported a few years back that Mitsubishi was buying these Magnas from car yards and sending them straight to the scrap yard just to get them off the road?

I know so many people that would not touch a Mitsubishi simply because of that reason.

The cold hard fact of this situatoin is that whilst the 380 may indeed be a good car in its own right (as CarAdvice reviews attest to) the company’s idiotic decision to rely solely on that car to support itself is one of the most incompetent management decisions ever made in this country that has done little more than tarnish their reputation even further.

You simply cannot hope to support yourself based on the strength of a single product – eggs in one basket! Rule one of diversification.

Wake up to yourself mate, there’s a far bigger picture here than the narrow vista you’re trying to paint.

And the media are doing the same with the falcon now…. shame media, shame!

If Mitsubishi were smart, they would have followed a similar angle as Toyota have (Camry/Aurion)by providing 2 versions of a single platform to tackle two different segments supported by a healthy export programme.

Basically, Mitsubishi should have provided the market with a competant 4 cyl version as well as a larger 6 cyl capacity car hence widening it’s market diversity.

Unfortunately, Mitsubishi will close because of thier own silly decisions. Dreams how bosses want thier company to be compared to market reality are often two different worlds.

No need to get abusive or sarcastic just because you think you are superior to anyone who thinks differently to you….have a nice day SIR!

anyway seriously why doesn’t mitsu pimp up the 380? i mean the ralliart attempt was poor compared to the lancer of old…why cant mitsu make their evo range like fpv and hsv and totally pimp up all the cars…like toyotas trd range…that could lift sales and hopefully save jobs.

When it was new, it was still a outdated, ugly car, out of times with what the public wanted, had inferior technology and was WAY overpriced (don’t forget the massive price reductions) Remember that it still doesn’t have ESP even now !

Sad that production will be finishing but it is all to do with the product choice – nothing less…

You lose all credibillity when you use a car forum to push your political barrow…. please stay relevant and keep your sour grapes to your self after all Mr John Howard wasn’t perfect….far from it!!!

As for all the doom and gloom for the Australian motor industry. There’s one thing we should all keep in mind, back during the last oil crisis Australia built big cars. The two major players took very different paths. Ford decided on a large car and worked on weigh reduction and Holden decided on a smaller one. We all know how this turned out, the Commodore nearly sent Holden to the wall and the Falcon went on to some of the best sales figures it has ever had. Consumers are suffering from petrol price shock, when it calms down, which it inevitably will, things will go back to normal.