Jan. 2007 Sales: Mitsubishi Motors N.A.

[Variance]

Jan. 2007 Sales: Mitsubishi Motors N.A.

CYPRESS, Calif., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Mitsubishi Motors North

America, Inc., (MMNA) today reported January sales of 9,383 units, up 25.6%

from last January's total of 7,463.

It was Mitsubishi's best January since 2004 and the largest single

month percentage increase in four-and-half years (July 2002).

"We are very encouraged at this tremendous start to the year," said

MMNA CEO Hiroshi Harunari. "Customers are embracing the all-new Outlander

crossover sport utility, while our established models like the sporty

Eclipse coupe still have tremendous appeal. We are very excited at the

prospects for our all-new Lancer sedan, which will begin sales in the

Spring."

Outlander sales were 1,918 units, up 166 percent from last year's

January volume. Eclipse coupe sales were 2,129, up 37 percent from a year

ago.

Other January sales highlights:

* Eclipse Spyder closed at 306 units, more than five times the sales in

January of 2006.

* Lancer closed at 1,684 units, up 15 percent from last January volume.

* Galant sales were 1,654, an increase of more than four percent

Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc., (MMNA) is responsible for all

manufacturing, finance, sales, marketing, research and development

operations of the Mitsubishi Motors Corporation in the United States.

Mitsubishi Motors sells coupes, convertibles, sedans, sport utility

vehicles, and light trucks through a network of approximately 520 dealers.

For more information, contact the Mitsubishi Motors News Bureau at (888)

560-6672 or visit media.mitsubishicars.com.

[source: Mitsubishi Motors North America]

[regfootball]

good momentum

[balthazar]

It's staggeringly amazing how quickly the media & public are forgiving mitsu for one of the industry's worse public relations disaster in history... yet I still read media references to the Vega.

[Flybrian]

You know a company is full of $h! when they don't even release a chart to show how poorly they're doing.

And, OMG, they broke their streak of more-than-$10,000 units a month! Uh-oh!

[regfootball]

it's so funny how you continue to think they are dead when sales are increasing.

c'mon, grow up, accept that they will still be around and just get over it.

you wanna pick on some rice cars, pick on Chery.

[Intrepidation]

That's sad considering the Corolla sold like triple what the entire line of Mitsubishi sold.

Edited February 2, 2007 by Dodgefan

[VenSeattle]

Mitsubishi's literal sales increases are marginal at best. The US network can't continue starving on 10,000 sales a month. Nothing is really coming down the pipeline for Mitsubishi that'll change that... not even the new Lancer. The new underpowered and ugly Outlander will be forgotten as soon as the new VUE arrives.

[balthazar]

it's so funny how you continue to think they are dead when sales are increasing.

c'mon, grow up, accept that they will still be around and just get over it.

How can you dismiss 25 years of outright multiple-stage corporate-sponsored lies over life-threatening design defects?

Again- I point to the longevity of the Vega in the media- a car out of production for 30 years and Chevy/GM is still taking low-blows about. Mitsu is Here and Now. I for one will not relent: mitsu is Dead Car Rolling; Godspeed the flames.

[regfootball]

the number says up 25.6% though. i guess that just shows postive sales momentum.

It would not surprise me if other automakers including our very own, don't have some things in the closet as well.

Edited February 2, 2007 by regfootball

[Intrepidation]

the number says up 25.6% though. i guess that just shows postive sales momentum.

It would not surprise me if other automakers including our very own, don't have some things in the closet as well.

I can run off a hefty list I found of stuff DCX is hiding.

[FUTURE_OF_GM]

And the media succeeds at reviving yet another useless-piece-of-garbage asian automaker!!! YAY!!!

[Satty]

the number says up 25.6% though. i guess that just shows postive sales momentum.

It would not surprise me if other automakers including our very own, don't have some things in the closet as well.

25% of $h! is shi

The percentage doesn't matter, the fact is that the actual number of sales is extremely low and that probably wont change much.

[mjd1001]

I like a lot of what Mitsubishi is doing. The outlander I think looks pretty good, it's interior in my opinion blows away the Rav4's, and I am even starting to see more eclipses around.

[sciguy_0504]

I think the Lancer will be a significant vehicle for Mitsu.

[regfootball]

I think the Lancer will be a significant vehicle for Mitsu.

for those that think the Civic is too out there....and the mazda3 is too much of a chick car, and the corolla is too soft and the sentra is too wierd. yeah, it should see some increases.