History of Mitsubishi

Although he was born at the beginning of last century, the Japanese giant about whom we speak to you today in our blog dedicated to the engine, the motorcars construction did not begin seriously even after the Second World war. Mitsubishi has made of everything; trucks, scooters, three-wheeled vans, vans … even the famous fighters Zero used by the Kamikazes in his attacks to the American navy.

• Mitsubishi; Japan.
• Founded in 1917
• Emblematic models: 500, Lancer, Pajero, Space Wagon, Debonair …
• Models in production: Hunter, Lancer Evolution, Outlander, Colt and Grandis.
• Future: i-MiEV.

The car Mitsubishi production before the 2nd World war was very scarce, to sorrow a few prototypes and the Mitsubishi A, a Fiat species 500 of the one that only approximately 20 units made. The product covers with stars at that time there were the trucks, and the Japanese company made the first ones moved by a diesel engine in Japan. In 1932 there appears the PX-33, a convertible impelled by a diesel engine of the one that four units constructed themselves.

Mitsubishi Colt by Adrius

During the warlike conflict, Mitsubishi made tanks and the famous planes of combat Zero. After the war, and thanks to it helps Americans, he began to construct the Jeep low Willys he licenses, being this his only car production for nine years. The signature was centred on the construction of trucks and buses without paying big attention to the market of the cars.

Mitsubishi 500 of Mulad

It was in 1950 when the Government of the country of the nascent sun invited by means of a board the Japanese companies to to make cars, and to impel this way the motorization of a country that began to re-arise after the war. The Mitsubishi answer was the model 500, a child four squares with a rear engine refreshed by water of 500 cc., this was the beginning of the scale Mitsubishi, from 1963 the Colt appeared, a berlin of medium size and the Debonair a car of high scale with an engine of 105 CV.

Mitsubishi Lancer by Jason42882

The following years were of growth and expansion, the family was increasing, big vehicles quantity was exported to the United States, Europe and to the rest of Asia. Mitsubishhi came to an agreement with Chrysler, to sell his models Colt and Lancer in the United States, and his todoterreno Pajero were gaining a good number of sports tests in the Championship of the World of Raids.

Mitsubishi Hunter of GabiMax

At the end of the 90s economic problems arose, I motivate by which the Japanese manufacturer was allied by Volvo to make cars in Europe and to be able to deceive this way the tariffs of the old continent, it ended up by integrating into the Group Daimler-Chrysler in the year 2000. In the year 2005 the Group Daimler sold all his actions of Mitsubishi to the Bank Goldman Sachs that in turn resold them to the bag of Tokyo. Now the company, after crossing this bad situation, re-arises and announces the enlargement of his family of motor and new agreements with powerful European groups as PSA and Volkswagen to acquire diesel engines.

Images: Logo, Lancer, Hunter, Mitsubishi 500, Colt

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