The Mirage has been a shimmering success for Mitsubishi in Britain and it’s easy to see why. The new five-door only version arrived this spring with a simple choice of 70 bhp 1.0 or 79bhp 1.2 5speeders and optional CVT on the higher output version. We tested the manual 1.2 Mirage3, expected to be a strong seller priced towards the top of the four-model range beginning at just under £9,000 … [Read more...]
New Mitsubishi Mirage – more than an illusion
After years of falling sales, the high value of the Yen against the Pound, earthquakes in Japan, flooding in Thailand, failed alliances with Volvo, Daimler and Chrysler, not to mention an aging range of models, no wonder Mitsubishi Motors has fallen on hard times in Europe. But now things are improving, the exchange rate for the Pound v Yen is better and new models are starting to … [Read more...]