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Originally Posted by Dave
true story, had chrysler not lent out hands at several occasions there wouldnt BE a mitsubishi, much less an evo. and chryslers probably got more expirience with turbo fours than ANY other manufacturer
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AAAHHHH Wrong!!! Chrysler aproached Mitsu for help with their turbo 4's, remember their ugly omni, well? Back in the early 80's they needed a inexpencive engine and they got it from mitsu and fitted it to their platform,
from there came later the Colt/Champ models. 1.6L 4 in line that was a mitsu engine design but did not well in the US, the much bigger K cars Aries/Relliant did better, then came the Caravan/Voyager ther the same engines as the mitsus counterparts in japan but de-tuned for the US. The truth is Chrysler had been and will be sub-par with many manufacturers simply because of their targeted demografics. If you are going to buy a good car you don't look at Ford, GM, or much less Chrysler, you look at Toyota(Lexus), Nissan(Infinity),or Honda(Acura) at a higher end, Porche or BMW, and if you think that Mercedes is a Chrysler you must be tripping on mayor dope, the only thing that they are doing to Mercedez is killing the company!
BTW Mitsu not only builds cars, that is only a small branch, they are conglomerate, they range from semiconductors, Flat-panels, to Rocket engines, Ships, jet-airplanes, Constrution equipment and more!! Yes Chrysler is a very big corporation but it had more help from other companies that they care to admit and the only thing that saved the company here in the US was the minivan market. Back in the 70's they were doing so bad that they were selling their own cars to them self and storing them on a lot in Canada to make their numbers look better for the Chairholders, but they were in the red ink. but Iacocca came to the picture got a loan from the gov. and saved them!