atombomb33

iTrader: (28)

Sales are in for all auto manufacturers and January wasn't as bad as many predicted since the economy is in the crapper. The industry as a whole was only down 2.9%.

Mitsubishi, on the other hand, had it especially tough despite the Evo X beginning to arrive. Mitsu had the worst year-over-year sales decrease of ANY brand...-23%.

Not a good day in Cypress, Ca.

EDIT: IMAGE IS REPOSTED SO IT WILL BE EASIER TO READ

Codeman17

iTrader: (-2)

Sucks for Mitsu

fostytou

iTrader: (15)

January is usually a pretty bad month for car sales. Right after christmas, before tax refunds, and salty and cold. Nobody wants to buy a car then.

Hopefully the new lancer will pick things up, ive seen a ton of them on the roads.

edit: ps, try to save as jpg next time.

atombomb33

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Agreed about January being a bad sales month historically. But the 23% decline is versus January 2007 sales. It's apples to apples and January 2008 was much worse.

Plus, the industry was only down 2.9% overall while Mitsu was still down 23%. Mitsu had the worst decline of any brand.

I put the image up at work and .jpg file was above the 100mb file size. I'll try to repost it with a better resolution now that I'm home.

06RS

iTrader: (37)

Mitsubishi better milk the Evo X for all that it's worth. Outside of the Evo/Lancer, Mitsu doesn't have too much to work with.

JDMCT9MR

iTrader: (56)

They are trying hard to sell the EVO X.I went to the local Mitsubishi dealer to pick of a few parts for my IX and they were trying to sell me one.Not a big fan of the X.

housedj

iTrader: (2)

from the chart it looks like the luxury cars (like luxury homes) are still selling well regardless of economy. highend cars sell best during recessions...

BBS

iTrader: (18)

Why would the launch of the X have any bearing on their sales figures? The rest of their cars are garbage (minus the lancer.)

v rod

iTrader: (5)

at least mitsubishi is winning at something.

Animus

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Hopefully it will be better in the future. With all these interesting concepts coming out (Ralliart, Lancer Sportback or Concept-RA, etc..), at least Mitsu is moving into the right direction of exciting adn fresh products. The Wrx seriously needs a challenger in the cheap 4wd turbo market, and if all things go well the Ralliart should be worthy.