Ummm, Mitsu's and Talons are far from rice burners, they are domestic cars. Made in Normal Illinois. Very few even made their way to Japan. Whats great is my car can run in FWD and RWD races as well as Import and domestic only.
MMMA production per year.
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
Eclipse, Laser, Talon N/A* 120,341 126,206 93,088 90,195 80,994 62,117 67,233 40,346 50,965
Eclipse Spyder - - - - - - 13,518 11,401 10,813 5,713
*Data Not Available
MMMA Sales Volume
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
Eclipse N/A* 49,278 53,712 57,083 51,826 52,555 53,807 48,503 45,619 53,123
Eclipse Spyder - - - - - - 9,309 10,066 12,336 8,751
Talon N/A* 29,853 29,813 27,331 27,250 20,789 13,799 10,206 2,957 -
Laser N/A* 28,201 24,463 15,992 4,566 197 - - - -
*Data Not Available
MMMA actually did ship cars to Japan. Here are those numbers. Only the Eclipse was shipped over for export.
MMMA exports to Japan 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
Amount exported 81 1,276 1,090 858 304 88
