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Is the Eclipse an Import?



 
 
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Old March 21st 05, 09:40 PM
Bill 2
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"Scott en Aztlán" > wrote in message
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> 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.


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Old March 22nd 05, 12:27 AM
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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.

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Old March 22nd 05, 10:53 PM
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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.

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Old March 23rd 05, 06:25 PM
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> 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

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Old March 23rd 05, 06:40 PM
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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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