The Mitsubishi plant in Normal, IL. that Governor Quinn was just talking about on MSNBC is UAW

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http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2011/10/mitsubishi-plans-to-flood-midwest-town-with-electric-cars/1

Oct 11, 2011

Mitsubishi plans to flood Midwest town with electric cars

Updated 2011-10-11 7:49 PM

In an effort to prove electric cars will work — are "normal" — even in the smaller cities of middle America, Mitsubishi Motors is flooding the city of Normal, Ill., with up to 1,000 of its coming "i" electric cars.

And the company has launched an ad campaign to tell the rest of us about the project.

It was an easy bet, however, that the folks in Normal, population about 50,000, will like the new Mitsubishis: The town's economy counts on having a giant Mitsubishi auto plant in town. The plant makes about half the vehicles that the Japanese maker sells in the U.S.

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1. Best looking of all the EV's,

I might consider one.................$21,625 after tax savings...........lower than the rest..............better than the Volt of Leaf...........

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2. Didn't Normal use to be a joint Mitsu-Dodge venture back in the 90s?

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4. I am not sure about that Blue

You could very well be right though. I just don't know?

Don

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8. Yes they were, and the UAW still makes some of their cars

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9. Diamond Star Motors was a 50/50 joint venture of Mitsubishi Motor Corporation and Chrysler

Later, Chrysler sold its stake to MMC, and it is now wholly owned by MMC.

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10. That's right, DSM was the name I was trying to remember

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3. Mitsubishi

A few years ago we for whatever reason bought a relatively new eagle, with the turbo the whole works and let me just say that was the most piece of shit that we ever owned. I finally gave it away because we had already wrote it off as a bad decision on so many fronts and that car lived to haunt me until about 6 months ago when whoever owned it then finally got tired of putting money in it and sent it to the crusher. The transmission hung up in high gear which we could have lived with but the damn thing would just quite running and that we couldn't live with. How would you like to have a member of your family stuck on the side of the road at all hours of the day or night when ever it would decide it needed a rest. No one could find the problem, the local shop that did have a scanner for it wanted 1500 bucks just to connect it to the scanner to read the code, all the mitsubushi dealers charged the same. It wasn't obd2 so any old scanner wouldn't work. the manual said that you could read the code yourself by using a non digital voltmeter and connect it to pins 2 and 10, I believe it was, and count the times the needle swung to the right and take note of when the spaces would be where and the spaces were maybe a half second longer than the normal swings of the needle. It told me that the ignition module was at fault so we put a new one on, don't remember the cost exactly but it was several hundred bucks but that didn't fix the problem as it was stubborn as a mule and it said the transmission needed a rebuild. No one would touch the transmission if they had to give any kind of a guarantee and we were advised to buy a used one out of a wrecked car and when I tried that all the salvages, who are all connected to each other, would sale us one for 2500 bucks but that was a buy at your own risk. they wouldn't even guarantee that it would work when it got here. I threw the car away to a friend who said he would use it as a parts car but shortly afterwards he sold it to some girl and she needed the title so we get her the title but she never put it in her name so it remained in our name for several years and several different people as we'd have to go with them to the tag agency so they could get a title to get a tag with and none of them ever put it in their name. Ok has some crazy laws about that. Anyways I have a welder that has a mitsubishi built motor and a mitsubishi generator that are fine but that mitsubushi built eagle was a piece of shit. When it was running it would run a hole in the wind though.

Having said all that I would buy the I car in a heart beat though as I like the looks of it but we're planning to buy a ford focus EV in a couple more years. I like ford, they do us right, run the same day in and day out, upholstery still looks the same as new on both our '98 model fords, they still run like they did when new, they're just a better built automobile, than any of the others out there. Simple as that.

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6. Heh...

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5. Amazingly good marketing..

Hellooo.. Gee Emm, anybody home?

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7. And this wonderful thread slips beneath the waves of GD

because it isn't important today....

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11. Hey, I responded and recced it..

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