Mitsubishi Motors Philippines Corporation (MMPC) has begun assembly operations at its new manufacturing plant in Santa Rosa. The facility, located 45 km from Manila, takes over from the recently closed MMPC factory in Cainta, Rizal Province.
Santa Rosa itself isn’t new, formerly housing Ford Motor Company Philippines’ manufacturing operations. Ford ceased production in the republic at the end of 2012, and so the shuttered site has been given a new lease of life as MMPC’s factory and headquarters.
The new plant – which has a workforce of around 900 personnel – will be able to produce up to 50,000 units per year, exceeding the previous 30,000 units per year capability at Cainta, which began assembling Mitsubishi vehicles in 1964.
Production at Santa Rosa will consist of the Adventure compact MPV and L300 commercial vehicle, models produced at the previous plant. The company also reported that sales in the country for the calendar year 2014 was 48,793 units, a 15.2% increase from 2013’s 42,360 units.
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look like toyota User.
in Indonesia, this is known as Mitsubishi Kuda.
Inb4 somebody says “Thank You Dr. M, father of other country’s automotive sector.”
Hello bodoh, you all don’t like, leave la. Bising bising only. I live here in Msia and love it here. Business is good. Every month collect so much rental my tenants are paying for all my new cars.
Instead of complaining and keep on saying crony etc, work hard and work smart. Then you also can buy many new cars like me.
Can Madani from MAI explain why we are losing billions to Thailand every month and now, to even Philippines!
Malaysia was on its way to becoming the Detroit of Asia in the 90s. But the AP system cost us hundreds of billions in ringgit in investments from car companies who moved to Thailand and Indonesia. Car companies got fed up with Malaysia’s MITI for protecting Proton and telling other companies what to price their cars. They got sick and tired of the AP system and how genuine brands cannot get enough APs to import their cars in (like Mercedes, BMW and Honda).
They thought that if they set up their brands and plants in Malaysia, they knew they had to share the pool of APs with the cronies and they knew 90% of all APs go to the cronies. They all moved their operations to Thailand making it the AutoCity of the world.
Recently GM announced that they rolled out already 1 million cars from Thailand. Imagine if GM was in Malaysia and we taxed GM RM10,000 per car. Calculate that with 1 million cars. Just from GM alone, we lost Billions in USD. Imagine what will the amount be from other car companies if they had set up in Malaysia?
We lost hundreds of billion of ringgit in investment and trillions of ringgit from jobs lost. If Malaysia was the autocity of Asia, hundreds of thousands of jobs would have been created for Malaysians. We lost all that. Trillions of Ringgit and hundreds of thousands of jobs. Now, Thailand is benefiting from this trillions lost. And today, PHilippines pulak are benefitting from our crony practices.
A word of caution to Madani and the idiots in MITI, Malaysia might even lose existing companies who are already CKDing in Malaysia. BMW, Mercedes, Nissan, Honda and Toyota might even close up their plants in Malaysia to open up in Thailand. Now Indonesia and Phillipines included
This is so worrisome. Despite Thailand having an unstable economy with riots and bombing, no stable government, yet car companies still prefer Thailand to Malaysia. Makes us wonder…..what is wrong with Malaysia?
What’s wrong with us?
Shortsightedness two thousand degree, with glasses of 2cm thickness. Purposefully intentional.
Don’t worry, we still have local cars to drive around, and one of them got access to Lotus tuning still?
Eew! Fugly!
Proton Saga BLM is far way better than this….thing
Mitsubishi needs to know what customers want and expect. Mitsubishi is not Toyota, let alone Mercedes.
For example, Ninja King can be smaller than Pajero with less safety features, but not the other way round.
C-class can be smaller than Camry with higher price and yet still be more preferable, not the other way round.
Pajero sport, ASX, Lancer, Mirage/Attrage all are smaller than their rivals, and yet not significantly cheaper, and the safety features are fewer. You need to give 6 airbags + ESP in all your models, at your current asking prices.
In addition, the designs are faulty, inside out, go and find out yourselves, ya top management staffs.
u look at that car n no need to wonder why mitsubshi is dying a slow death…