I love my cars. Everytime I've needed (twice or three times when I've wanted) a new car, I've purchased a vehicle that was the best given the money that I was willing to spend. I've been spending quite a bit of time on Mitsubishi lots recently looking into another car purchase and I've had some disturbing thoughts regarding what I believe to be the single largest example of decaying society - the Mitsubishi Galant.
Maybe (surely) I'm over-dramatizing the situation, but has anybody spent some time in this car? It's been through about four facelifts since the current version came out ('98?) so they've effectively uglified it, especially the front. Mitsubishi effectively ignores it (they made zero changes to the '02 model except now it's called the '03), it gets worse gas mileage than the Accord, Mazda6, or Camry, has less head room, shoulder room, hip room and leg room, and much less cargo room than all those competitors. It's got a crap ride, a slow engine and poor steering, too.
But, I keep seeing them around, despite being bested by just about every competitor. But why? Perhaps there's a bunch of family members of Mitsubishi dealers around, and they get a special discount. Personally, though, I think it's got something to do with what I've deemed a love of mediocrity. The car's mediocre - extremely mediocre. It's uninspiring, slow, ugly, and nothing to its competitors.
Why does Mitsubishi put out a car that's so average? Why don't they pull a Nissan or a Mazda and completely overhaul it? Why do decent human beings purchase it? Do they actually feel it's right to concentrate only on SUV's and completely ignore a vehicle years behind its competitors?
So, that's an example of mediocrity in daily life. Opinions?
I'm afraid mediocrity in general is taking over - perhaps we need a war against it. In the '60's, Kennedy was fighting a war on poverty (in which the Marines went knocking door to door looking for impoverished people with a 'kill on sight' order). Clearly we need some consumer stimulation.
Maybe (surely) I'm over-dramatizing the situation, but has anybody spent some time in this car? It's been through about four facelifts since the current version came out ('98?) so they've effectively uglified it, especially the front. Mitsubishi effectively ignores it (they made zero changes to the '02 model except now it's called the '03), it gets worse gas mileage than the Accord, Mazda6, or Camry, has less head room, shoulder room, hip room and leg room, and much less cargo room than all those competitors. It's got a crap ride, a slow engine and poor steering, too.
But, I keep seeing them around, despite being bested by just about every competitor. But why? Perhaps there's a bunch of family members of Mitsubishi dealers around, and they get a special discount. Personally, though, I think it's got something to do with what I've deemed a love of mediocrity. The car's mediocre - extremely mediocre. It's uninspiring, slow, ugly, and nothing to its competitors.
Why does Mitsubishi put out a car that's so average? Why don't they pull a Nissan or a Mazda and completely overhaul it? Why do decent human beings purchase it? Do they actually feel it's right to concentrate only on SUV's and completely ignore a vehicle years behind its competitors?
So, that's an example of mediocrity in daily life. Opinions?
I'm afraid mediocrity in general is taking over - perhaps we need a war against it. In the '60's, Kennedy was fighting a war on poverty (in which the Marines went knocking door to door looking for impoverished people with a 'kill on sight' order). Clearly we need some consumer stimulation.
I loved it, just another example of why car commercials still remain to be the best commercials produced, they are an art in themselves 
