Comments on: Mitsubishi: what went wrong

By: stewie

stewie — Thu, 22 May 2008 12:10:51 +0000

Crysler valiant was in this country for 19 years mitsubishi destroyed all photos and records of the valiant. Mitsubishi lasted 19 years !! at least crysler didnt build a car that looked like a p76 that had been hit up the arse.

Bon voyage missesbitchie !!

By: Steevie

Steevie — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:26:22 +0000

we won’t even have the words Mitsubishi Motors Australia in our vocabulary after March this year. What we will have is Government posturing and saying nothing but empty words and empty fruitless promises until MMAL becomes a past memory, and that will only be a couple of weeks at best.Also the unions will be talking about re-using the empty facility/plant as a manufacturing hub, bla bla bla.

All I know is they will all be placed on a scrap heap. Having them on your resume is a huge obsticle to overcome.They do have a reputation with many employers and it isnt a positive one so ive recently found out.Best thing the employees can do for themselves is not mention this time in their working lives on their resume if they can.

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:21:39 +0000

Chucky you still fail to address the evidence I put forward. The number of models and brands on the Australian market is massive when you compare the size of the Australian market with any market in the world, including Europe. Ask any marketing exec working for a car company and they will tell you straight up the Aussie market is one of the fiercest.

Your assertion that most Aussie’s buy cars as white goods is a massive generalisation and in fact isn’t supported by the evidence. Don’t confuse fleet sales data with private sales figures. Both are lumped together and while government and business may be buying Toyotas in record numbers the private market has a much more varied taste.

By: Chucky

Chucky — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:04:01 +0000

Jason Says:
February 8th, 2008 at 11:37 am

It’s quite obvious the Australian car buying public have one of the widest and pickiest tastes in the world.

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Bwahahahahahaha! Is this your idea of a joke? If the tastes of Australians were so picky and varied, they wouldn’t be buying Toyotas in droves. Most Australians buy cars as a whitegood, just to serve a basic purpose of getting from A to B. They may have heard from their friend’s uncle’s butcher’s gardener’s cousin that Toyotas are so incredibly reliable and nothing ever goes wrong with them so they buy based on that. Europeans are the ones with more discerning tastes.

As for Mitsubishis, for the last 17 years my father has had 2 Magnas, 2 Veradas, and 2 Pajeros in that order (all company cars). Now he has a Holden Caprice. The only reason he didn’t go for a Mitsubishi again is because he wanted a luxury car and had more money to spend. I have had two Lancers, the previous VRX model and now the new VRX model. And his company fleet have been buying mostly Mitsubishis for a long time and continue to do so.

By: Advance

Advance — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:57:15 +0000

Omen- good points but everything MMAL wanted to do with the 380 was based on getting the ok from MMC (Japan). MMAL planned to have two engine and (auto) tranny options for the 380, MMC said no and we got stuck with one. AWD or RWD was never going to happen as the 380 had to be based off the US Galant and unlike the Magna platform was unable to be change to suit and AWD system. Even go back to the TL upgrade…MMAL had a design that was ready to go and MMC employed a Frenchman to redesign the vehicles and he came in and changed the TL design to fit in the the rest of the range…MMAL didn’t like it but MMC forced them to go with it. As as you read in the article MMC problems ment MMAL had to stick with the last gen Magna longer than expected hence the heavy TL upgrade. And to all the people baggin Mitsi…..don’t knock it until you drive it.

By: Richo

Richo — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:34:40 +0000

Kenn, there actually was an export program for the US and other markets, however it was for a long wheel base luxury version of the 380 which unfortunately got canned.

By: Kenn

Kenn — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:43:06 +0000

This article is well written covered all the issues affected Mitsubishi globally. There were few factors which caused the Diamante/Magna exports to North America, one was the lax finance scheme, but that affected ever Mitsu model sole in North America, the other factors were the updated North American Galant in late 2003 which was larger more powerful and stronger chassis than the Diamante/Magna, the strong Aussie $.

The 380 was never expected to be exported to LHD markets because the North American Galant is already being exported.

I wouldn’t expect Mitsubishi to bring the current model US Galant to Aus. Mitsubishi might bring the next generation Galant in 2010 based on the concept ZT.

By: o

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:00:23 +0000

number 100 no wagon
getting pushed around americas a bully it all about them get over yourself america and give us ago in the limelight

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 05:49:55 +0000

Either way, doesn’t matter now. The 380 will take over from the Magna as a great value for money car on the secondhand market.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:23:05 +0000

Adam, lol. that’s why they buy so many Corolla’s aye.

At the end of the day, if Mitsu aren’t making money, they’ll take their ball and leave. I for one say good ridance and completely agree with Flying High’s comments on lots of mates and family members owning mistu’s will never again due to stupid issues that you’d think a car manufacturer would have sorted out by now.