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Report: Mitsubishi Motors to end US production
Associated Press ^
| Jul 24, 2015 2:44 AM EDT
Posted on 07/23/2015 11:48:50 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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posted on
07/23/2015 11:48:50 PM PDT
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Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
07/23/2015 11:49:52 PM PDT
by
22202NOVA
(Tagline? I don't need no stinking tagline!)
To: Olog-hai; 22202NOVA
Volvo is likely to follow suit. According to several analysts I’ve read, anyhow.
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posted on
07/23/2015 11:53:05 PM PDT
by
Don W
( When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
To: Olog-hai
It’s an old Chrysler plant handicapped by UAW employees. Mitsu has deep pockets and doesn’t have to be forced out of US market.
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posted on
07/23/2015 11:59:27 PM PDT
by
jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
To: Don W
Volvo is building a new car/SUV plant in South Carolina, ending talk of leaving the US market.
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posted on
07/24/2015 12:01:50 AM PDT
by
jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
To: Olog-hai
I mostly remember Mistubishi for the wild 3000GT they sold during the 90’s. I couldn’t tell you much of anything about their current models. I don’t recall ever recall even seeing one of their pickup trucks on the road.
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posted on
07/24/2015 12:15:01 AM PDT
by
DemforBush
(Ex-Democrat, and NotforJeb. Just so we're clear.)
To: jjotto
Interesting, I did not know that.
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posted on
07/24/2015 12:20:47 AM PDT
by
Don W
( When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
To: DemforBush
It’s been a while since Mitsu sold pickups in the US. With its only US plant closing, it won’t unless it’s a rebadged Ram. USA still has high tariffs on imported trucks.
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posted on
07/24/2015 12:25:48 AM PDT
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jjotto
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To: Olog-hai
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posted on
07/24/2015 1:13:26 AM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: Olog-hai
Whenever I hear the name Mitsubishi, I think of those old Starions with the Knight Rider LED cockpits they had.........
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posted on
07/24/2015 2:41:58 AM PDT
by
Viking2002
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To: Viking2002
The Mitsu Lancer is a rice rocket fan boys delight, the high end model can get up and go. Both myself and a good buddy back in day picked up 1989 Turbo Mirages from a dealer, both being low milage Demos. Fun well built car, only handicap was a premature timing belt failure that tended to take out the valve trane.
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posted on
07/24/2015 2:59:06 AM PDT
by
DAC21
(.z)
To: jjotto
Dodge Ram 80 turbo diesel in the mid 80s. Not a bad small truck and pretty decent power.
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07/24/2015 3:15:29 AM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
To: jjotto
Volvo is building a new car/SUV plant in South Carolina, ending talk of leaving the US market. ...this is how you increase American manufacturing.....go where there's "less government" interference (and less union presence).
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posted on
07/24/2015 4:22:06 AM PDT
by
C. Edmund Wright
(WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
To: jjotto
Its an old Chrysler plant handicapped by UAW employees. Mitsu has deep pockets and doesnt have to be forced out of US market. By exiting the US, Mitsu gets to lay off all those union workers. They then have the option of re-entering the market in a few years, in a right-to-work state.
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posted on
07/24/2015 4:26:52 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: PapaBear3625
Its an old Chrysler plant handicapped by UAW employees. Mitsu has deep pockets and doesnt have to be forced out of US market.
By exiting the US, Mitsu gets to lay off all those union workers. They then have the option of re-entering the market in a few years, in a right-to-work state.
OK, but if Mitsubishi thinks they’ll be able to make a dent in a market dominated by Toyota, Honda and Hyundai (oh, and US makes too), then more power to them. But I think they’ve gone the way of Suzuki (cars, not bikes) and Daewoo.
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07/24/2015 4:33:58 AM PDT
by
Bluewater2015
(There are no coincidences)
To: Olog-hai
Didn’t Suzuki similarly bail out of the US car market a couple of years ago?
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posted on
07/24/2015 4:35:42 AM PDT
by
ThunderSleeps
(Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
To: ThunderSleeps
As went Isuzu’s light pickup lines and car lines. The pickups were fantastic. They ran forever.
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posted on
07/24/2015 5:16:48 AM PDT
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: PapaBear3625
So far, Mitsubishi is not exiting the US market. They’re just shutting down an old plant. They did the same thing in Europe.
Mitsu sales are actually up in the US last year, mostly due to the underrated Outlander SUV. Mitsu is much more successful outside the US, so they do generally know what they’re doing.
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posted on
07/24/2015 5:36:02 AM PDT
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jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
To: blackdog
I agree with you regarding the Isuzu pickup. I drove mine off the lot brand new and it ran superbly until it rotted in half from these New England salty roads. Had I wanted to live dangerously I would have kept it a few years more. Having made it through 50+ months in hazardous fire areas I decided not to tempt fate.
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07/24/2015 5:49:21 AM PDT
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MSF BU
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To: MSF BU
My 1992 went over 300,000 miles with only brakes, oil changes, a fuel pump, 2 batteries, 2 sets of wires, cap and plugs, and an exhaust system. Oh, and two sets of tires.
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posted on
07/24/2015 5:53:05 AM PDT
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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