Mitsubishi Confirms Mirage Sedan For US Market

by Cameron Aubernon

November 26th, 2014 7:00 AM

mitsubishi confirms mirage sedan for us market

Looking for a cheap new car that isn’t a hatchback? Mitsubishi might just have what you need.

According to Motor Trend, Mitsubishi Motors North America executive vice president Don Swearingen proclaimed that the Mirage sedan — already on sale in Thailand as the Attrage — would arrive in U.S. showrooms within the next year or two.

Like the Mirage hatch ( which we reviewed not too long ago), the sedan is powered by a 1.2-liter three-pot mated to either a CVT or five-speed manual.

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MRF 95 T-Bird on Nov 26, 2014

It makes a Chevrolet Sonic sedan seem like luxury and great engineering.

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Sector 5 on Nov 26, 2014

I've heard Mirage don't handle too well. If the U.S. gets the 10 year warranty Mitsu will erode Versa sales.

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- Petezeiss on Nov 26, 2014
  
  "I’ve heard Mirage don’t handle too well." Why would they need to?
  
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- Lie2me on Nov 26, 2014
  
  @petezeiss So you can zip into a parking space on Black Friday before someone else steals it from you
  
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- Petezeiss on Nov 26, 2014
  
  @Lie2me If Amazon don't send it, Pete don't need it.
  
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- Lie2me on Nov 26, 2014
  
  @petezeiss I agree, but sometimes I just need to look at something before I buy it
  
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- Petezeiss on Nov 26, 2014
  
  @petezeiss Me too, but sure as heck not on Black Friday. Every two-ton texting turkey is behind the wheel then struggling against their abdominal fat to breathe between burger bites and screaming at their junior lard balls as they jerk their cattle wagons across lanes to bump over curbs and into the mall lots where they speed diagonally through rows of cars to find a handicapped spot so they don't have to abrade their thighs walking more than necessary to join the zombie herd in the food court with waves of cheap fragrances mixed with BO and fried fat rolling over it and breaking against the greasy, stained windows of the Radio Shack and Verizon stores that always seem to be right there. Now I'm struggling to breathe.
  
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- Lie2me on Nov 26, 2014
  
  @petezeiss Kind of gives you the warm fuzzies all over, don't it!
  
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- Marcelo de Vasconcellos on Nov 26, 2014
  
  @petezeiss Sure they need to handle. People buy small cars the world over because they enjoy their dynamics oftentimes. Not everyone buys a small car just to save a buck. Small cars must respect their tradition! Handle well or go off into the dustbin of history.
  
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EAF on Nov 27, 2014

This is a far cry from Mitsubishi's days of 4G63T equipped vehicles. They had a winning formula in the 90's; turbocharged & all-wheel drive! WTH happend?

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- Corey Lewis on Dec 01, 2014
  
  As I mentioned before, DSM happened.
  
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- Danio3834 on Dec 01, 2014
  
  @Corey Lewis What are you getting at? Most of those 4G63 cars were DSMs...
  
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- Corey Lewis on Dec 01, 2014
  
  @danio3834 The formula was fine, AWD + turbo + looks good. Just the quality wasn't there.
  
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- Danio3834 on Dec 01, 2014
  
  @Corey Lewis Agreed about the quality, but Mitsu needed more than that. You could easily buy quality from any number of brands. When they tried to go exclusively mass market in the 2000s with so-so but reasonably reliable cars, they got into trouble. They should have recognized their niche and better exploited it instead of trying to successfully compete with the big boys all at once. Subaru is a good example of how to grow a newer brand, don't stray too far from your niche lest you abandon your customer base. Their cars were unreliable crap too, but they kept giving their buyers what they wanted in the form of value elsewhere.
  
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Corey Lewis on Dec 01, 2014

I think if you're seriously considering this car, you should: A) Work the same level of hardness and get a used, superior car. B) Work a little harder and get a Sentra, which is similar but superior in every way. Nobody questions your credit when you drive a Sentra.

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