Originally Posted By: HerrStig
Originally Posted By: 440Magnum
Originally Posted By: madRiver
Car makers noticeably absent : Kia, Hyundai , Mitsubishi......
I think Hyundai/Kia will eventually have some engines that are thought of as "legendarily reliable," but Mitsubishi hasn't been able to keep oil out of the combustion chambers for 40 years now. I don't see that ever changing.
Mitsu ought to be able to fix that, but they have not so far. It's a wonder Chrysler bought so many engines from them.
Its a wonder Chrysler didn't go in and FIX the problem since they had an ownership stake in Mitsu all thru the 80s and 90s, and never had anything close to that kind of chronic mechanical design problem with any of their own engines. I guess the ownership didn't extend to dictating engineering changes, but Chrysler sure wound up spending a lot of money (and more importantly credibility) cleaning up the cylinder head debacle with the Mitsu 2.6 inline 4 and the oil burning / valve guide dropping debacle with the Mitsu 3.0 v6.