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Nissan interest fuels US Mitsubishi dealers' hopes for more car models

Mitsubishi has struggled in the US; through April of this year, the brand had 0.6% only of the market

Published Tue, May 17, 2016 · 09:50 PM

New York

THE chairman of Mitsubishi Motors Corp's US National Dealer Council's Advisory Board said he sees new life for the brand after Nissan Motor's US$2.2 billion stake.

"Anybody that ever said Mitsubishi is not going to make it in the US, they can go ahead and rewrite their article," Ryan Gremore, who runs a Mitsubishi dealership in Normal, Illinois, said.

Even before the recent fuel-economy scandal, fears of a US exit had mounted as the carmaker's product line aged, reminding dealers of Isuzu Motors and Suzuki Motor before their US exits in the past decade. A…