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MITSUBISHI UK has announced that their ‘Dealer of the Year’ for 2011 is Smithy Garage based in Gwynedd, Wales. The award was presented to John Roberts, a director of the franchise at Mitsubishi’s annual dealer conference, which took place at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport last week. Smithy Garage won the award for its [...]

MITSUBISHI Motors UK boss Lance Bradley has told Car Dealer he hopes to open two more closed Southgate sites soon. The Japanese firm saw four dealerships close when the Southgate Group went into administration last month, but Bradley is in advanced talks to open two again soon. The former Southgate site in Bridport was recently [...]

THE next Mitsubishi Evo is likely to be powered by a hybrid power train and not the famous 2.0-litre turbocharged unit. Talking exclusively to Car Dealer at the Tokyo Motor Show, the Japanese firm’s UK managing director, Lance Bradley, said a hybrid version of the Evo was almost certain. ‘When you look at the performance [...]

MITSUBISHI has appointed Motorwell Limited to take over its Bridport dealership, it has been announced. Motorwell – who have been trading since April 2008 and operate Citroen and Mitsubishi franchises in Yeovil – take over the site from the Southgate Group, which went into administration earlier this month. Adrian Haylett, managing director of Motorwell Limited, [...]

MITSUBISHI is the latest car manufacturer to react to the News of the World phone hacking allegations. The Japanese firm said that it will donate the money it would normally spend on advertising in the tabloid newspaper to charity. On the social media site Twitter, the manufacturer said that ‘Based on a Facebook user suggestion, [...]

SUBARU has rebuked the idea that with ever more stringent emission regulations STI could be axed in the near future. Speaking exclusively to Car Dealer, the firm’s marketing director Kenyon Neads was adamant that the WRX STI performance brand will not follow the Honda Civic Type-R in being axed in the UK, due to falling [...]

MITSUBISHI Putney has celebrated its EV sales centre launch with the hand-over of  i-MiEVs to its first EV drivers. A mix of Mitsubishi Motors head office and EV sales centre personnel gathered in at the dealership with the Mayor of Wandsworth and other representatives from The Office of Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) and the SMMT [...]

MITSUBISHI has announced which of its dealers will become EV Sales Centres ahead of the i-MiEV launch. The manufacturer has appointed 13 of its retail network each of which will have a deciated Mitsubishi-trained EV salesman. On each of the sites there will be a charging bay while it was also announced ALL dealerships will [...]

THREE new vehicles can now enter London’s congestion charge zone free of charge it has been announced today. With CO2 emissions of just 99g/km, Citroën’s DS3 DStyle 99g and C3 Airdream+ already qualify for free VED, and are now eligible for the new greener vehicle 100 per cent discount (GVD) – potentially saving London drivers [...]

In a world dominated by ever-softer, ever-more lifestyle-focused SUVs and crossovers, it is good to see one brand still makes a ‘proper’ off-roader. The Mitsubishi Shogun may not be the flashest kid on the block – and certainly not the newest – but there’s no denying the smack-in-face non-subtlety of its impact. Mitsubishi dealers swear [...]

UK motorists will play a key role in the electric car future as makers say our market has the most potential in Europe. Various Government incentives have already created a fertile environment for electric cars, and the benefits of this are starting to hit our roads. ‘The UK electric car market is going to drive [...]

2009 sales may have been down by a quarter but Mitsubishi sales and marketing director Toby Marshall is upbeat. ‘Scrappage wasn’t the number one priority.’ The focus of 2009 was different. Dealer profitability was the new goal, achieved via two major initiatives. First Mitsubishi took away the traditional dealer costs, so that training, brochures, IT [...]

HARRATTS Mitsubishi has just appointed a new sales manager who has worked through the ranks at the firm. Peter Davies joined the firm in 1998, on the Barnsley dealer’s opening day. Starting out as an apprentice technician, he has now worked up to the post of sales manager 12 years later – to the delight [...]

MITSUBISHI will show its rival to the smash-hit Nissan Qashqai at the Geneva Motor Show in March. The all-new 5-seat ASX is based on the Lancer, and is around 360mm shorter than an Outlander. It will be offered with, excitingly, a brand-new diesel. Mitsubishi has developed a direct-injection 1.8 turbodiesel, which will impressively be Euro [...]

MITSUBISHI is continuing its shift away from heavy off-roaders with the launch of a new compact SUV model. The firm will launch a new Nissan Qashqai rival at next year’s Geneva Motor Show. Based on the platform of the Mitsubishi Lancer, the new SUV will be first sold in Japan from February 2010 – to [...]

MITSUBISHI has a stack of eco-themed cars here on its stand at Tokyo – but there’s one that stands out. The PX-MiEV is an extremely clever electric hybrid SUV concept. But take note of the looks above all. For, it’s previewing the smart, aero-style look of the next all-new Outlander. Looks good to us. We [...]

MITSUBISHI franchise has been busy during 2009, recruiting dealers to fill its key open points. And it’s been something of a flurry for the Japanese firm. Not only have there been 11 new car dealers joining the brand this year, but 6 of those opened their doors this quarter! Giving the franchising department a challenge [...]

MITSUBISHI has renewed its roadside assistance contract with Mondial Assistance for another three years. The two have been partners since 1992 – making it a 17-year paring that’s still going strong. What’s more, the contract has even been extended for the latest three-year spell. It now includes a 12-month roadside assistance product. The idea here [...]

MITSUBISHI is delighted with its July sales performance – which has come WITHOUT scrappage aid! The firm grew its market share from 0.5 percent to 0.75 percent in July. This 53 percent boost means it comes in 9th in the overall market share improvement league table. ‘But, if you take out scrappage sales,’ a spokesman [...]

MITSUBISHI will extend the new car scrappage scheme way beyond official calls, to include cars 5 years or older! This HALVES the official 10 years or older Government stipulation. But Car Dealer Magazine wonders whether it is all it’s cracked up to be. Won’t 5 year old cars still be worth much more than £2000? [...]