re: Mitsubishi Outlander: reliability or any other issues? UPDATE pg 3

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Hyundai has improved their appeal, but their reliability and (more importantly) dealership quality has unfortunately not improved as much. No point in offering a great warranty or promising good after-sales service if the dealership network is sketchy more often than not. Splitting off Genesis into their own dealer network was a good move. But their core Hyundai/Kia dealerships have to improve and their warranty has to actually cover things. Their new EV line is actually very good (too bad almost nobody is buying them but Avis/Hertz).

Mitsubishi is in far worse shape in the US - arguably the worst car company that sells cars in this country. Their dealer network has largely died off, and they only have a couple of models now. None of them are truly competitive even against equally priced used cars. They may make a more reliable car than Hyundai, but that doesn't really matter if the design is so old, cheap, and absent of any current safety or UI tech. Most Mitsubishi products look and feel like they are geared for 3rd world markets.

Nissan has been floundering for years. They bought JATCo to source their transmissions, and it turns out that JATCo makes total garbage. There are signs of Nissan improving, but not investing more into their Z sports car, Titan pickup, or XTerra SUV was likely almost as big of a mistake as being so committed to poor quality CVTs. Most informed buyers steer clear of their CVT equipped vehicles. For a while that was almost everything they sold. In the US, Nissan's reputation is far, far behind where they were in the 1990s.