Mitsubishi Research & Design America facility is now CLOSED!!1!
Wow, just wow :rolleyes:
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After nine years of attempting to design
vehicles specifically for the U.S. market, the Mitsubishi Research and Design of America office is being shuttered to save money. All 60 employees will be let go.
"It's a reflection of what is going on in the
auto industry right now and the economy as a whole," said Moe Durand, spokesman for Mitsubishi.
"Design functions will now revert fully to our headquarter's facilities in Japan."
The MRDA, established back in 2000 in Cypress, California, was formed as in an effort to design vehicles specifically for the U.S. market,
rather than attempt to adapt Japanese designs. The office was responsible for the Mitsubishi Eclipse, Eclipse Sypder, Galant and the next-generation Montero Sport, which became the Endeavor. All were part of "
Project America," or PS by internal designation.
None was a major sales success.
"M.R.D.A. in Cypress did a lot of the work on the new Eclipse and Spyder," Durand said. "They had no real current projects under development.
I think it has generally been acknowledged that the PS cars were not a success in the marketplace."
