Is the Eclipse an Import?
"Scott en Aztlán" > wrote in message ... > There was a Mitsubi**** Eclipse commercial on TV just now that said > the Eclipse has been the best-selling import sports coupe for the last > 15 years. > > Gee, I thought Eclipses were made in Bloomington/Normal, Illinois... > When did they start making them in Japan and importing them? Not talking about place of assembly. |
Scott en Aztl=E1n wrote: > There was a Mitsubi**** Eclipse commercial on TV just now that said > the Eclipse has been the best-selling import sports coupe for the last > 15 years. > > Gee, I thought Eclipses were made in Bloomington/Normal, Illinois... > When did they start making them in Japan and importing them? > > -- > Sloth Kills! > http://www.geocities.com/slothkills/ It's just like the Toyota that's built in Georgetown, KY. Most of the Camry's come from there, I believe. |
Scott en Aztlán > wrote:
> There was a Mitsubi**** Eclipse commercial on TV just now that said > the Eclipse has been the best-selling import sports coupe for the last > 15 years. > > Gee, I thought Eclipses were made in Bloomington/Normal, Illinois... > When did they start making them in Japan and importing them? > Maybe they are going ot bring back the Eagle Talons from the late 80s, early 90s. |
> Gee, I thought Eclipses were made in Bloomington/Normal, Illinois... > When did they start making them in Japan and importing them? I had an Eclipse when they first came out in the very late 80s. It was considered a foreign car, and a sticker or data plate affixed to it somewhere listed its port of entry as the bustling wharves of Normal, Illinois. The maker was then Diamond-Star Motors, a joint venture with Chrysler (the Plymouth Laser and Eagle Talon came out of the same factory). Chrysler had already had various parts-supplying and badge-engineering relationships with Mitsubishi going back into the late 70s. Then it was solely Mitsubishi for a while. A few years ago Daimler Chrysler bought into it again. It's now Mitsubishi Motors North America, Manufacturing Division. See for instance http://www.mitsubishimotors.com/comp..._division.html Around the same time, if memory serves, newspapers reported that a Ford Crown Victoria, the very picture of the traditional American sedan, had something like 70% imported content, just under some threshold for being considered a domestic. The point of the story being that the nascent trend of globalization was introducing a lot of bureaucratic arcana and outright weirdness into once intuitive distinctions like foreign vs. domestic cars. Cheers, --Joe |
Scott en Aztl=E1n wrote: > There was a Mitsubi**** Eclipse commercial on TV just now that said > the Eclipse has been the best-selling import sports coupe for the last > 15 years. > > Gee, I thought Eclipses were made in Bloomington/Normal, Illinois... > When did they start making them in Japan and importing them? Looks pretty obvious to me. If it wasn't an 'import', it would be *way* behind the Mustang and Camaro(RIP) ... -- C=2ER. Krieger (Been there; done that) |
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