Thanks everyone. I think some of my friends are just in the "always buy American" mode of thinking. They really don't understand that most of their "American" autos were manufactured in other countries. I like my Outtie. And like someone posted, with a 5 year 60,000 bumper-to-bumper, and a 10 year 100,000 powertrain...it seems like Mitsu is standing behind its product.

Thanks again for the info.

 

It's a global market now..

This reminds me of the Saturn campaign 'Rethink American' Which they've rightfuly backed off the 'American' part

All the models are shared with Opel (minus the Outlook) Specifically withthe new VUE...It was largely engineeered in Korea, styled in Germany, and isbuilt in Mexico. The new Astra is a Euro carryover (some changes to make them legal) and is even built in Belgium

 

My families experience with Mitsubishi has been awesome.

2001 Mitsubishi Diamente - just about to roll over to the big 200k! 199,998 miles and still riding strong. This car has been well taken care of by my father and has taken us VERY far. Granted its not in a racing condition, but its got all the pep it had when we bought it. The only thing he didn't do is change the Timing belt at the 70-100k mark (and still hasn't done it). So over all... Mitsubishi quality is solid!

We had 91 Eclipse that was sporting 170,000 miles, manual LS model. Awesome car, we traded it in for the Diamante. No problem at all, ran strong and also never had the timing belt changed. My dad thinks its worthless to change the belt and its just bull **** that the deal says it needs to be changed. Judging by his experience it may be partially true. I'd personally get it changed as needed though.

For both he never got the extended warranty and never had to replace anything. We put Slick50 oil additive at all changes at 3k. We did all brake, and shock changes ourselves other than that... no engine or trans issues. But, unlike my dad, again, I did buy the extended warranty since it was only $500 for me. Not bad for a feel good insurance policy.

For these reasons I bought myself the Outtie 07 XLS :-)

 

My first Mitsubishi was a 1991 Eclipse. That thing was a totally beat down car. It burned & leaked more oil than all of Iraq. But she never let me down. Even when I traded her in, she had 192k miles. She wasn't pretty, she didn't smell good, but she got me every where I needed to go.

 

Even Ferrari, BMW, Porsche, Mercedes, Audi, etc build lemons occasionally. It's not necessarily their fault, but just happens as part of the manufacturing process. Of course some manufacturers should have lemonade stands on every corner instead of dealerships, but we won't mention names.

I've owned a few first model year vehicles, 1 domestic vs 4 japanese. The domestic was "Found On Road Dead" after 6,000 miles. The japanese models were all flawless performers with no down time before trade-in. This isn't to say they were all assembled in Japan, but most of the parts were built there.

Besides who came up with the new catch phrase in the Ford commercials - "And yes, Ford is now equal with Toyota in quality". Who verified this? A class of 3rd graders? You can easily skew the numbers to say what you want. Makes me think of the DirectTV commercial where a room full of cable executives are talking about ways to lie about the numbers to make them look better than DirectTV.

Some car magazines and so-called independent testing labs get some of their funding from big auto manufacturers, so of course they embelish those manufacturers products.