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Originally Posted by Halon
Other than the Evo, Mitsubishi doesn't put out anything that impresses me, or stands out from the competition. The brand needs a make-over, like Ford seemed to successfully do in the past few years.
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Agreed, and as did MMNA. That's why if you look at the Outlander Sport, its the first in the line up to start the company overhaul. It's got more standard features, at a lower prices than any other SUV in its class. The model year 2014 Outlander will be more on par with entry level luxury brands, but at a price similar to a CRV or Rav 4. They're adding all kinda of cool crap to it.
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Originally Posted by Kracka
Half of Don Herring Mitsu's lot is full of iMievs that have been sitting for months; Mitsu is going to have to offer some steep discounts to move these stupid things... Like cut the price in half.
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One of the things they did was partner with Ally. MMCA isn't an American financial institution, and they weren't able to take advantage of government rebates. Since Ally is, we can offer lease rates that include use of the $7500 tax credit. But yeah, even at that we've only sold 9 of them total.
A larger part of the issue is that the infrastructure doesn't exist to support EV's yet. If there were level 3 charging stations (Level 3 stations can charge an EV in about 10-15 minutes) at gas stations through the cities and people could travel more than 100 miles in one day taking a 15 minute break to charge, there would be more sales on EVs.
Too bad those chargers are like $60,000.