Mitsubishi news

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. plans to kill its current lineup of U.S.-made vehicles, the Eclipse, Eclipse Spyder, Endeavor and Galant sedan over the next three years and switch to producing global vehicles at its Illinois plant. The current nameplates will be phased out by 2014 as part of the carmaker's new business plan unveiled Thursday by president Osamu Masuko.Mitsubishi's factory in Normal, Ill., its only U.S. assembly plant, will pick up new models based on the platform underpinning the Outlander crossover, Outlander Sport small crossover and Lancer sedan. The company plans to announce early next month what model will debut there. Mitsubishi sold 55,683 vehicles in the United States in 2010, up 3 percent from 2009.

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