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Mitsubishi Lancer production ending this year



The Lancer will be replaced by a crossover.


Mitsubishi has announced it will end production of the Lancer in August.

The rally-bred Lancer Evolution was axed two years ago, but the standard model (pictured) received a series of updates inside and out for the 2016 model year. Sales continued to decline, so the Japanese brand has decided the Lancer will join the Evolution in the pantheon of automotive history before the end of the year.

Don Swearingen, the executive vice president and chief operating officer of Mitsubishi's North American arm, told Motor1 that another compact sedan isn't in the pipeline. Mitsubishi has previously made it clear that it wants to abandon sedans altogether and shift to building exclusively crossovers and SUVs. The move makes sense considering crossovers are outselling sedans and wagons in nearly every market around the globe.

The Lancer's void will be filled by a new compact crossover that could debut during the Geneva Auto Show, according to Autoweek. Little is known about the model, though it's expected to draw inspiration from the XR-PHEV and XR-PHEV II concepts shown in 2014 and 2015, respectively. It could even spawn a range-topping, Evolution-badged variant equipped with a powerful plug-in hybrid drivetrain.


The only Mitsubishi sedan whose future seems safe is the Mirage, surprisingly. "Our customers love the product," Swearingen pointed out. He announced that a brand-new, second-generation model will appear before the end of the decade.

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Mitsubishi To Pull The Plug On The Lancer In August



Introduced 10 years ago at the Detroit Motor Show, two months before it went on sale across North America, the latest generation of Mitsubishi’s Lancer will also be the last.

Speaking to the media on Thursday ahead of next week’s Detroit auto show, Don Swearingen, executive vice president at Mitsubishi Motors North America, said that the company will axe the Lancer in August.

The decision, which was taken long before Nissan took over the fates of Mitsubishi’s automotive division, comes after the Lancer Evolution was dropped and is backed up by the fact that the automaker saw the model’s U.S. sales decline by 19 percent in 2016 to a little over 14,000 cars, according to Autonews data.

Instead of waiting for sedan models to recover, Mitsubishi is placing most of its bets on crossovers to stay afloat in the market, including the introduction of a new generation ASX / Outlander Sport.

This is not the only new vehicle under development from the Japanese brand, as it’s also readying a Qashqai rival, which will slot between the Outlander Sport that will get smaller, and the regular Outlander that will get bigger, and be presented in 2018. Swearingen told Autonews that this, as-of-yet unnamed, model will get a turbocharged engine and feature “friendly” technology. “Frankly, in my opinion from test driving the new vehicle, it will be the best vehicle Mitsubishi has ever produced,” he said.



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