Some of the winners of this year’s prestigious What Van? Awards 2008 ceremony held today in London including; Overall Van of the Year: Fiat Fiorino Light Van of the Year: Fiat Fiorino Small Panel Van of the Year: Fiat Scudo Best 4×4 Commercial: Mitsubishi Outlander Best Pick Up: Mitsubishi L200 Small Van of the Year: Vauxhall CorsaVan Van of the Year: Citroen Nemo Light Van of the Year: Citroen Nemo Small Panel Van of the Year:Citroen Dispatch One Stop Shop Award: Citroen’s read more

New-look Colt secures class-leading 1- and 3-year residual values New Mitsubishi Colt’ s forecast residual values are the best in its class.  The latest figures show that the CZ1 and CZ2 3-door variants have a predicted residual value of 75 per cent of their new value after 12-months / 10,000 miles and 41 per cent after 3-years / 60,000 miles according to independent CAP Monitor data. The 5-door has proven it’s no slouch either with 74 per cent and 40 per cent residual values predicted read more

Fancy driving away in a new Mitsubishi Colt CZ2? Well if you can get down to Sittingbourne, Kent, a branch of Sainsbury’s in the town is offering lucky shoppers the chance to win a Colt as part of the BBC’s Children In Need appeal. SMC Mitsubishi is giving the car away to the first person to successfully break into a safe containing the keys.  The sporting hatchback will be on display at the supermarket 12-14 November. 14 November is the official Children In Need day. The BBC’s read more

Nick Palmer joins Mitsubishi Motors in the UK as Director of Aftersales Stephen Blackburn remains within the company as Director of Business Development, as well as taking up other opportunities Mitsubishi car leasing special offers Mitsubishi Motors in the UK has today announced the appointment of Nick Palmer to the role of Director of Aftersales, and Stephen Blackburn to take the role of Director of Business Development, with effect from Monday 4th August. Nick Palmer Nick brings read more

March the 1st saw the new Lancer Saloon go on sale and the release of the all-new Sportback is planned for the 1st September 2007. Mitsubishi are expecting the new Lancer to compete in the UK’s highly competitive C-segment. The C-segment currently includes established power-houses such as the Ford Focus and the Honda Civic and Mitsubishi face a tough task in making waves in such a competitive area. Mitsubishi lease prices Lancer Evolution lease prices Lancer Estate lease prices Lancer read more

Porsche’s ongoing battle with Ken Livingstone over the proposed congestion charge increase has found support from Mitsubishi. Lance Bradley of Mitsubishi believes that Livingstone’s plan “is not a well co-ordinated plan to heavily penalise one group of vehicles over those emitting one gram less”. Bradley does however concede that the new charge will force car manufacturers to place added importance on CO2 emissions when developing their cars. read more

Mitsubishi Motors have premiered the Mitsubishi Concept-RA to the world at the 2008 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS or the Detroit Motor Show). Mitsubishi Concept-RA fuses a passion for dynamic, exciting driving with a heightened sensitivity for the environment thanks to clean, efficient high performance diesel power. read more