Global small car

Mitsubishi is working on a new global small car positioned below its Colt hatchback and scheduled to enter production at a newly erected plant in Thailand in 2012. Previewed here today in these official sketches, the new global small car is expected to make its world debut in production trim at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show in March and could boost the automaker’s sales numbers by as much as 150,000 units annually. Mitsubishi is investing upwards of $535 million to build the new Thai plant, the automaker’s third in the country and the first new addition in 16 years. Production...