2005 Galant? - made and designed in Australia

[marktheblake]

Will it be a Galant badged as a Magna, or a Magna badged as a Galant, or a hybrid between the two?

http://www.editorial.discountnewcars.com.a...A256D11001EB 551

Whatever it is, Mitsubishi is merging the two models into one, and the local product will be manufactured here in Australia after a major upgrade of the Adelaide plant and a $900M project and R&D centre, and is the car that will replace the current Magna - known in the USA as Diamante(which is an Australian export). Obviously they are going to be exporting as well but the US market will still build there own version.

it will be a longer wheelbase version, and the bullet nose look will be toned down. How much it will resemble the 9G who knows, maybe it will be the 10G.

One thing forsure is that Mitsubishi is looking to unify model names worldwide thus Magna and Diamante will probably dissappear.

and good news for the Aussies, could the Galant become an "Australian" product!.....
"He said that R&D work for US-built Galants would be done in Australia, including variants off the Galant architecture"

More articles about Galant, and the MM Australian factory and give a great insight into 2005 and beyond for the famous G
http://www.editorial.discountnewcars.com.a...ew&Query=gal ant

[Reelax]

since there is no longer a JDM / world version galant (9G), this australian next gen magna that shares the "hard points" would likely end up being the "world" version of the car. we can pretty much assume that it will b better looking than the US version and "JDM" conversions for the US 9G will b done from the aussie OE parts.

[marktheblake]

http://www.380.com.au/

Should be on sale in October.

Now that they have named it, i am disappointed that its not a Galant. Nevertheless I am probably gunna buy one, and stick a Galant emblem on it!

Anyone wanna trade a 380 emblem for a Galant one?