Comments on: Mitsubishi could announce Adelaide closure today

By: tonyn

tonyn — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:02:08 +0000

casey, the facts are although this car didnt sell the media gave mitsubishi’s potential customers conmfidence! i worked for a mitsubishi dealer and people were running scared on what the media said, so im just stating it from my experience!

do you write for one of the major papers?

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:27:17 +0000

***check the main page guys – it’s all over***

By: Oz.

Oz. — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:23:49 +0000

Oh no!

By: Oz.

Oz. — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:23:23 +0000

By: John S

John S — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:13:21 +0000

geesh carl…take a chill pill…

By: Duck

Duck — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:04:48 +0000

So will they shift making the 380 in China or Russia?

By: Bret

Bret — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:54:42 +0000

D-Day is March 31

By: Yianni

Yianni — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:51:49 +0000

The 380 is a pretty good car as most of us know. Nothing wrong with the drive train and quality of the car. Looks wise its just OK and does not stand out which is a major problem.

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.

By: RPITUP

RPITUP — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:33:15 +0000

Great car, crap looks. When it’s all boiled down, for most buyers the main questions will be how much will it cost me and how does it look.
Tonyn – No arguments from me that it is a sound car, but not everyone is as car savvy as a lot of the readers on this site. Power, handling and vehicle longevity pale into insignificance when stacked up to looks, price and features to many of the potential buyers.

By: Casey

Casey — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:24:53 +0000

Tonyn – The media does nothing more than report on the facts at hand – simple.

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.