Mitsubishi pulling out of UK?

[db9go]

Subaru next ?

 

[Cowabunga]

View attachment 897571What are the other emerging brands ?

There are several Chinese and Indian brands that we haven't seen in the UK, but probably for very good reasons. Besides which, the Colt Car Company is wholly owned by Mitsubishi, as I previously indicated, so is unlikely to import another brand while under current ownership.

I'm sure it is a shock and disappointment for all involved, but it does show that brand loyalty is wasted, because literally all these companies are 'here today, gone tomorrow'. All that differs is the length of their day.

 

[BBC]

loads of Mitsubishi trucks around here due to Garage called "The Firs" they always seen to sell tons of shoguns and pick ups etc just about every Mitsubishi you see round here has a firs sticker on it!

I think that they are the largest dealer for Mitsubishi 4x4 vehicles in the UK. Have always got on very well with them and their service has been excellent. Will be a shame to see a business such as this hit by this decision.

 

[Cowabunga]

Subaru next ?

There is indeed talk of Subaru pulling out as well. Their sales, although recovered slightly for a year or two up to this, have fallen drastically from their hayday at the turn of the century. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say it had fallen off a cliff, certainly in the UK.
The end of WRX sales and relatively inefficient engines coupled to CVT transmissions were all mistakes they could have avoided.

 

[ollie989898]

Speaking in my Chartered Environmentalist capacity, a good thing too! Far too many internal combustion engine vehicles around the world. Perhaps, just perhaps, national governments will start to actually DO something about emissions now:

- Completely (urgently) rewrite planning policies to reverse the americanisation of society where everybody had to travel every day to work and buy essentials.
- Make public transport cheap and convenient enough to be the transport of choice for 95% of society.
- Stop using GDP as the measure of success and instead adopt a metric which internalises all of the critically damaging "externalities" of the current economic model.

The social ground is shifting under our feet as evidenced by today's announcements about restricting the promotion of junk food and the wailing from the advertising and corporate food industries.

FWIW I've never rated Mitsubishi vehicles anyway (and, yes, I've driven a few). Their "Up to 147 mpg" claim for the Outlander PHEV is little short of fraud imho.

Good riddance.

Public transport just isn't up to the challenge of transporting that kind of numbers at the minute.

 

[Cowabunga]

Mitsubishi has already phased out production of its Shogun/Pajero model and has no replacement in a sector that, worldwide, is exceptionally healthy. That was a bad sign that puzzled me but failed to appreciate the significance of at the time. They just haven't got the money to develop a replacement, of course.

 

[BBC]

There is indeed talk of Subaru pulling out as well. Their sales, although recovered slightly for a year or two up to this, have fallen drastically from their hayday at the turn of the century. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say it had fallen off a cliff, certainly in the UK.
The end of WRX sales and relatively inefficient engines coupled to CVT transmissions were all mistakes they could have avoided.

What will the local hare coursing brigade do without access to any Foresters in a few years time!

 

[Cowabunga]

Public transport just isn't up to the challenge of transporting that kind of numbers at the minute.

Public transport has taken a confidence hit with this pandemic that will take years to repair and people will only use it when there is no alternative. Out of large towns and larger less remote villages and for many journeys in those regions, public transport will never ever be either viable for the traveller or economic to run. They cannot run them currently without massive taxpayer subsidies and none of this will never change. So forget it.

 

[ollie989898]

Subaru next ?

Subaru are owned by a much larger diversified parent I think.

 

[michael N123]

Mitsubishi has already phased out production of its Shogun/Pajero model and has no replacement in a sector that, worldwide, is exceptionally healthy. That was a bad sign that puzzled me but failed to appreciate the significance of at the time. They just haven't got the money to develop a replacement, of course.

Does the new shogun sport commercial not cover that sector slightly can tow 3.1 ton

 

[Cowabunga]

Subaru are owned by a much larger diversified parent I think.

Do you think that makes a difference ultimately? Fuji/Subaru has not spent all that much on developing its vehicles or vehicle sales in recent years. The fact that Fuji is a vast corporation makes it more likely that they will pull the plug with only positive results for itself, than a smaller company which has to toil on until the plug is pulled by its investors.

 

[ollie989898]

Do you think that makes a difference ultimately? Fuji/Subaru has not spent all that much on developing its vehicles or vehicle sales in recent years. The fact that Fuji is a vast corporation makes it more likely that they will pull the plug with only positive results for itself, than a smaller company which has to toil on until the plug is pulled by its investors.

I don't know, Japanese business attitudes are probably different from the hard-nosed American capitalism we have come to know.

 

[Jackov Altraids]

Trying to get my head around this...

Is now a good time to get a new L200? Competitive pricing due to the need for cash or to be avoided as their is a high risk of dealerships disappearing?

 

[Cowabunga]

Does the new shogun sport commercial not cover that sector slightly can tow 3.1 ton

The Shogun Sport is just an L200 with passenger read body and coil springs. It has been introduced and withdrawn due to poor sales periodically in the past. In Asia there are many such vehicles offered, including a version of the Ford Ranger, but they just don't sell well in Europe on the whole. Toyota used to have a similar thing based on the Hi-Lux also.

Mitsubishi also had another small Shogun model at one time that actually looked like a mini three door Shogun. That was probably last century but I can't remember the timeline of these things very well. Was it called the 'Pinin' or something similar?

 

[Highland Mule]

Subaru are owned by a much larger diversified parent I think.

Mitsubishi is third owned by Nissan, and hence closely allied with Renault too. Hence the suggestion they will carve up the branding (and presumably share development and factories).

Nissan - Asia
Renault - Europe
Mitsubishi - N America

 

[Cowabunga]

I don't know, Japanese business attitudes are probably different from the hard-nosed American capitalism we have come to know.

Only to a point. Olympus, for all their rhetoric about the camera business being essential to their medical side, has just thrown in the towel and is in the process of trying to divest it. Which shows that even the Japanese will only support ailing subsidiaries and companies so far before drawing a line in the sand.

 

[Cowabunga]

Mitsubishi is third owned by Nissan, and hence closely allied with Renault too. Hence the suggestion they will carve up the branding (and presumably share development and factories).

Nissan - Asia
Renault - Europe
Mitsubishi - N America

That has all gone pear-shaped since Mr Ghosn's forced departure. There is much animosity and jealousy between the brand managers by all accounts.

 

[nick...]

Sure toyota own subaru
nick...

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

Public transport has taken a confidence hit with this pandemic that will take years to repair and people will only use it when there is no alternative. Out of large towns and larger less remote villages and for many journeys in those regions, public transport will never ever be either viable for the traveller or economic to run. They cannot run them currently without massive taxpayer subsidies and none of this will never change. So forget it.

Which is why it was always madness to build council estates on the edge of villages as they have done all over the South East. The houses should always have been where the work and shops were then we wouldn't have needed so many damned cars and roads!

Mitsubishi has already phased out production of its Shogun/Pajero model and has no replacement in a sector that, worldwide, is exceptionally healthy. That was a bad sign that puzzled me but failed to appreciate the significance of at the time. They just haven't got the money to develop a replacement, of course.

A shame about the Shogun, it was the only semi-decent vehicle Mitsubishi made

 

[Still Farming]

Which is why it was always madness to build council estates on the edge of villages as they have done all over the South East. The houses should always have been where the work and shops were then we wouldn't have needed to many damned cars and roads!



A shame about the Shogun, it was the only semi-decent vehicle Mitsubishi made

Near Work !,What's that???