mitsubishikid
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Mitsubishi is selling the normal IL plant where our cars were made... http://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmu...ug-on-u-s-factory-after-years-of-subsidies/2/
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That's not 100% true. Over the last 5 years a ton of people have been laid off. And I know a guy who works there currently and he said everyone that works there now has taken huge pay cuts and he also said how he is making now what he made 15 years ago. The place has been going downhill for a while now.Correction: no big loss to the Mitsubishi product line, which has been lacking in exciting products.
And you're talking worst case scenario. They're selling it, not closing it; there's still hope for a better future. The jobs aren't going to evaporate. They'll likely need the same manpower when it reopens.
Depending on how the new owners restructure the plant, they may need even more people.
When ConocoPhilips sold the local oil refinery to Suncor years ago, the whole town flipped; "they'll downsize", "they'll fire us and bring in their own people", "there goes our community", etc. It was a real scare.
The opposite happened. A decade later its still humming along with plenty of locals still on the payroll.
This is two different industries in different parts of the nation I know, but they're similar situations.
Putting something up for sale doesn't mean you will be successful at selling it or that a buyer will need or want the existing workforce.
It's a shame that Mitsubishi lost it's way and you only have to look at one of their past junior trading partners (Hyundai/Kia) to see what could have been.
How about the endeavors?? Would you drive one of those??You are right. Mitsubishi has been producing cars that aren't that exciting for a while now. The Evo X was such a huge let down, it no longer looked like a aggressive WRC monster but instead like a normal family car with a odd looking wing on the rear. Then when you compare the performance of the Evo X vs the Evo 8 or 9 it was even more disappointing and less exciting to drive. The only other car they have ever sold besides the Evo was the Eclipse which for me totally died in 1999. The 3rd Gen was ugly and the 4th looked like a failed attempt to modernize the 2g styling. You take away the turbo and the AWD and you are left with every other unexciting FWD V6 turd on the road. I honestly don't even really know the names of their other cars because they just weren't even worth learning for me.
After looking at their line up it's amazing they are even still in business. The Outlander is closely priced to cars in it's class that are for the most part a better buy overall. The Mirage is great if you are a 16 year old who wants a brand new car that they will sell in a couple years when they make more money, but other than that I wouldn't even consider buying one if they dropped the price down to 9 grand. I'd also never buy a base model Lancer. At the price point for the Lancer everything in it's class is so similar I'd go with the best looking car and the Lancer isn't anything to look at for sure.
I'm not sure they can really make a come back and develop a car I'd be interested in at all at this point. It's really sad to see them produce such unexciting garbage.
How about the endeavors?? Would you drive one of those??
Now that Tesla has been mentioned, it would be amazing to see a Tesla-fied (high performance fully electric) version of the 1G.