Mitsubishi
Cars
Today, Mitsubishi is a massive company, not aiming primarily
at the automobile industry, but aiming instead at a wider
array of products. Despite this they are still able to produce
some stunning vehicles, very popular on the roads today.
The Mitsubishi company itself began as a shipping company,
running a service to China and Russia, in eighteen seventy.
Throughout this period of time various forms of competition
began to spring up and the company began to diversify (something
quite revolutionary for the times). Around eighteen eighty
five Mitsubishi bought a copper mine and a coal mine, in order
to sell these raw goods. Further to this Mitsubishi leased
a shipbuilding yard and began to produce the first steamships
made of steel in Japan which had not been imported.
Diversification continued and in nineteen seventeen the company
first turned its hand towards automobile production, eventually
becoming the arm called Mitsubishi Motors. Not simply being
happy with producing in the marketplace for commercial success,
Mitsubishi made many great innovations including creating
Japan’s first diesel engine and four wheel passenger
cars.
Popular Mitsubishi cars in the UK today include:
Mitsubishi Colt – with a racing car
design the Colt can still be obtained with a smaller engine
size (starting at one point one litres and seventy five brake
horse power) for a stylish design at a low cost. The range
starts at just under nine thousand pounds up to twelve thousand
five hundred pounds for the top of the range Mitsubishi Colt
1.5 Elegance (car insurance group six).
Mitsubishi Outlander – a large four
wheel drive vehicle the Outland is only available in automatic
versions with a two point four litre engine. Power for the
vehicles remains the same throughout the range however with
roughly a three thousand pound difference between the top
of the range and the bottom. At the top, what you get for
your money is the Mitsubishi ‘Duel Fuel’ engine
system (top of the range is car insurance group fifteen).
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