mmarshall

Was it a company vehicle, or your boss's personal DD? Company cars sometimes get more than their share of abuse. ..as I saw in many years of Federal service.

You're correct that they haven't made any major changes to American-market Lancers since the major redesign in 2007, except to change the grille to that huge blacked-out trapezoid....which, IMO, looks like a big vaccum-cleaner about to scoop up anything in its path.

bagwell

LOL, that's the ONLY thing I like about the lancer!

LexFather

Mitsu's problems are well documented, lets hope they can turn it around. We need more car makers not less of them.

To me the car that proved to me they were clueless was the handling of the Eclipse. That car was so hot the first two generations, it performed well, was priced well, had an optional turbo and AWD and while not the best built thing it was super appealing. Then they turned it into an awful driving/handling FWD car with just oddball styling. I drove it a few times and it offered the worst of all worlds.

Matter of fact it might belong in the "worst cars I've driven" thread.

Infra

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I think the 3rd gen was their most successful in terms of wide appeal. I remember a lot of them in my high school parking lot.

The 4th gen turned it all.... weird.

mmarshall

Agreed....the 3Gen, especially the standard N/A four, was a major letdown (and lost a lot of sales), although its build quality improved a little over the rattle-and-squeak and paint-defect 2Gen. Mitsubishi's excuse, however, for toning down the 3Gen Eclipse was that they were going to bring over the AWD Lancer Evo to the U.S. to take the place of the former Turbo Eclipse.....which, of course, it did to some extent, and formed its own cult following. But Evos, of course, were significantly more expensive, and did not come in a turbo FWD variant like the 2Gen Eclipse GS-T.

Kira X

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It doesn't surprise me that Mitsubishi is doing so bad. I have no idea where the closest dealership is, what their newest cars look like besides that Evo, and I never see anything besides Eclipses and older Evos driving around. It's really sad because I loved their cars when I was a little kid in the 90's. They used to make such cool cars.

mr. tetsuo

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one day ill get a 3000gt vr4 and support mitsu

i think im one of the few who actually like the 4th gen when done up

mmarshall

For dealerships, just go to Mitsubishi's web site/locator and type in your zip code (or city/state). All auto companies (and most businesses these days) have retail-outlet locators. Mitsubishi, though, has a relatively sparse network, so you might not find one close by.

http://www.mitsubishicars.com/dealer...Fa_m7Aod2HEABg

nikko2jzge

I always thought that the Montero was nice and the Montero Sport was ok (back when they first came out). I had a 92 Diamante...pretty reliable car. I wonder why would someone buy a 2014 Mitsubishi. To be odd?

SW17LS

We're all aware you can search for dealers on the website

The point is that I can name the closest Toyota dealer, Honda, Hyundai, Lexus, BMW, Mercedes, Audi, Ford, Chevy, Cadillac, Chrysler off the top of my head...but I can't think of the closest Mitsubishi dealer...thats part of the issue.

mmarshall

Well......yes, that's part of the point I was making, too. But, if you don't know right off the bat where it is, how else are you going to find the closest Mitsu shop without the web-site locator? The traditional paper Yellow Page-area telephone books, unfortunately, have become unreliable and inaccurate in recent years....they often give outdated or incomplete information. And it sounds to me like the person above who posted the issue (Kira X) has enough interest in the latest line of American-market Mitsu products (small as it is) that he or she at least wants to go and check some out.

mmarshall

if you are asking why the person I spoke about in the first post (my friend in Carson City) may have been interested in one, until he found out tat the nearest shop was 74 miles away, he seemed to like the Outlander Sport's low price, overall size, shape, space efficiency, economy, all-weather/AWD availability, and exterior color-choice. I felt the interior was rather Spartan, and the road manners rather Ho-Hum (little more than base AWD transportation), but those are not important issues to him and his wife......70+ miles to the nearest dealership WAS.