The Future Today at Your Mitsubishi Dealer

With the financial climate fast-approaching the nightmarish hell the media have been harping on about for the past half a year, there are certain consumer goods being left on the shelf. One major casualty is the engine industry, because let's face it, having to choose between keeping warm, fed and watered or having a new car but dying of pneumonia is not really a choice at all. It's perhaps odd then that Find Allentown Used Mitsubishi will be unveiling a new car this summer - most probably to an empty showroom. What's even more odd is that Mitsubishi are known best for two things. Firstly the Shogun which is not only a great 4x4, but the boldy styled fashion accessory for just about any bouncer, body builder or simply builder.

A blend of being stylish, spacious and good on the approximate stuff is helped enormously by the very fact that the Shogun is turbo-charged so you can go everywhere in a blur whilst having passers by think they are yet to seen the world's most effective elephant. The second car Mitsubishi is known for is of course the Lancer Evolution range. In essence a space skyrocket with another aggressively styled car taped to it, the Evo is now in its tenth incarnation and is showing no signs of slowing down in its retirement years. Well-known in equal measure with car thieves and rally drivers the Lancer is a bone fide sportscar beater with the latest version completing the 0-60mph dash in a dizzying 4. 1 seconds.

OKAY you say, so Mitsubishi are known for the above, but how come this odd? Well possibly what they're fighting the monetary avalanche with all can become clear. Called the i MiEV, the new car is small, not aggressively styled, and is electric battery powered. Have Mitsubishi lost their marbles? In brief no. Inspite of the car looking like a toy car, the engineering behind it is whatever but child's play. Mitsubishi have been quietly working on battery powered vehicles since the mid nineties and the MiEV (Mitsubishi ground breaking Electric Vehicle) is the fruits of their labour. Even the smallest details appear to have recently been meticulously designed, with traveling space unimpaired with the batteries underneath the floor (where the fuel reservoir would normally live) and the motor itself under the rear seats.

The i MiEV has recently been built to comply with the strictest emissions regulations on earth - the Japanese K-car guidelines. The K-car plan promotes smaller, more effective vehicles in return for cheaper tax and insurance. That means the i MiEV is less than 4ft 10in wide (a full 10inches narrower than a Fiesta) and looks even narrower due to its lofty styling. Crucially 2 weeks . million miles better than the G-Wiz which will be the Bethlehem Used Mitsubishi trucks main compete with when looking to clinch a sale.

There's room for four adults and a decent boot is another essential plus over the G-Wiz. Handling is surprisingly assured despite it being extra tall and narrow, although having no engine noise requires some getting used to! The best aspect though is that despite only housing 67 horses, the i MiEV has no trouble maintaining traffic thanks to it having about the same weight as a supermodel. Even when you're approaching the 87mph top speed on the motorway, you don't feel uncovered as you would in the G-Wiz, where even dual carriageways are a no go area. Today the really crucial fact - battery charge.