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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    2018 Mirage owner here. It depends on what your expectations for a vehicle and budget are, and whether or not you want to support the production of an unpopular class of car. The warranty is amazingly good, the fuel economy is good, the reliability has been perfect for me so far. I'd say go for it if you can get a good price for one in the current market.

    If you go for one with the CVT, you better fricking change that fluid every 40-50k miles or you'll regret it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Only considering because I think it looks cool and it's cheap as frick. Also the used car market is insane

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Wife had a 2018 model. Fricking thing saved her life when she was T-Boned by a drunk driver doing 35mph over the speedlimit over a blind hill. Car is basically a roll cage on wheels, filled with airbags.

      She did need a medflight due to internal bleeding (car fliped 3x), but yeah, she lived. Driver in other car was fine due to drunk people seemingly always being physically fine after accidents, and the passenger later died. They were in a 98 Subaru of some sort and that thing fricking folded like an accordion. They had to cut his passenger out with the jaws of life.

      >If you go for one with the CVT, you better fricking change that fluid every 40-50k miles or you'll regret it.
      Basically. Really only needed at first as everything is wearing in. Changing out the paper "auxilliary" filter is important too. The main screen filter in the pan shouldn't ever clog, so you can leave it. All in all it is a very easy CVT to service.

      >Jatcos
      Ew, Jatco

      It is the same JATCO CVT Nissan uses, but Mitsubishi pays more for higher quality production runs (someone on the mirage forums obsessively tracked lot numbers of transmissions to figure this out). They don't experience anywhere near the same level of failures as Nissan. Their fluid spec is also better than Nissan.

      OP if you just need a commuter/grocery-getter, than you really can't go wrong. Super simple to do any maintenance on. It does lack power, but honestly, I drove my wife's on I81 in Appalachia and on mountain back roads, and never had a problem. Just be willing to floor it, and take the 1-2mpg hit on hills.

      The Mirage community is pretty great too. They all know they own econo-shitboxes, and just have fricking fun with them. There are a ton of easy mods to increase fuel economy, or improve handling. Just a fun car. I think there is a dude on there who has over 300k miles on his.

      Lastly, has a pretty cool camshaft with the rollers built into the lobe tips.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Mitsubishi pays more for higher quality production runs (someone on the mirage forums obsessively tracked lot numbers of transmissions to figure this out). They don't experience anywhere near the same level of failures as Nissan. Their fluid spec is also better than Nissan.
        what the frick Nissan

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Very moronic unless you're getting it new for $10k or less.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You know nothing about the market at all, do you?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        A shitty market doesn't mean you go out and pay moronic amounts of money for a shitty vehicle. These weren't worth the $8k they were originally going for and sure the frick aren't worth $20k. Stop fricking up the car market, moron.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Mine's been great to me so far. Why are they bad?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Because you can get a actual good vehicle for the same price or slightly more.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            There is no vehicle that fills the same niche the Mirage does. Nothing has the same simplicity in this day and age in the western market. The fuel economy of the Mirage is also very attractive in this current state of the economy. The Mirage is undoubtedly the last 90s car you can still buy new.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >There is no vehicle that fills the same niche the Mirage does
            Yeah because we live in America and don't have to drive pieces of shit like this.

            post your car homosexual

            I drive two 20 year old shitboxes which are still better than a fricking Mirage. Stop being a financial moron.

            You didn't answer his question

            I don't need to explain why a fricking Mirage is bad.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >I don't need to explain
            Thanks for at least admitting you are moronic

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            The only moron is the one buying a $20k car with 80hp and 4 lugstuds.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I got mine for 10k actually. It handles the interstate just fine.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            The Mirage just sounds like a modern Geo Metro, but way nicer to live with. I remember the Geo experience, felt genuinely scary to go fast in, if it could even hit that speed.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >still hasn't explained why the Mirage is bad
            Cringe

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            post your cars you larping homosexual

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Here's one of them. Because it's so hard to believe how anybody could drive a $500 car.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            The car I had before my Mirage was a '99 SC1, as a matter of fact. I was quite pleasantly surprised how similar they felt in a lot of ways. It's almost like the type of cars you like will disappear from the market if you don't buy new ones.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            The fact that a new car feels as good as one of the worst vehicles ever sold really says a lot about how shitty a Mirage really is.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            How do bad sales make a car bad? You still haven't answered my question. What attributes about the Mirage make it cater poorly to the market which it was designed for? I know you got your opinion from watching Doug Demuro, so you won't be able to answer this.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            s-series were great cars

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            They were but they're still pretty bad cars compared to a modern decent car.

            [...]
            >shills his GM shitpile
            >shits on it to save face
            absolute cope

            That almost free shitbox does everything a $20k Mirage does and more. Stay poor.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >compared to a modern decent car
            Modern cars are shit, you little Black person. Also, I already told you I bought mine for 10k new. See

            I got mine for 10k actually. It handles the interstate just fine.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            We're talking about the current market moron. Mirages aren't $10k anymore. Their current prices put them in competition with other 4cyl shitboxes that aren't nearly as shitty.

            the one driving the $500 saturn doesn't get to call other people poor

            That $500 Saturn does everything the car you're paying $300/mo does. Why do I know you rent?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            You still haven't answered my question. See

            How do bad sales make a car bad? You still haven't answered my question. What attributes about the Mirage make it cater poorly to the market which it was designed for? I know you got your opinion from watching Doug Demuro, so you won't be able to answer this.

            You have no legitimate criticisms of this car. You are parroting some homosexual on Youtube.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >80hp
            >3 cylinders
            >costs as much as a good car
            What the frick is your problem?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >What the frick is your problem?
            I'm not a shit driver and I prefer to fix my own car indefinitely. Pic related is the same price (not same price) cars you are referring to.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >a third worlder
            Ahhh that explains a lot lol.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >drives $500 saturn s-series
            >pays mechanics to frick him up the ass
            Enjoy poverty, kid.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I don't pay the mechanics shit. The parts are dirt cheap and the car is stupid easy to work on. I could rebuilt the entire car multiple times and still not even be at the $8k the Mirage was originally going for. I also got the car with super low miles. She's only on her 2nd set of tires at 20 years old. So please explain why spending $20k on a Mirage is a financially smart move?

            i can assure you that your saturn is much more dangerous

            It is 100% a deathtrap but I'm not paying $20k for that deathtrap sooo.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >The parts are dirt cheap and the car is stupid easy to work on
            You just described the Mirage.
            >So please explain why spending $20k on a Mirage is a financially smart move?
            I told you, homosexual. I bought mine for 10k. Plus I'm not finding any listings around me that are 20k. Find me another new car this cheap that appeals to the same market the Mirage does?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >The parts are dirt cheap and the car is stupid easy to work on
            In what fricking universe?? Unless you live in Thailand the parts for the Mirage are expensive as shit in the states.

            That's the one thing I absolutely hate about other Mirage owners is the fact that you all can't be honest about the damn car you are trying so hard to defend.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >can't be honest about the damn car you are trying so hard to defend.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >practicality is... LE BAD

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >get in a fender bender with a shopping cart
            >wind up in the ICU
            Yeah real practical.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Try being less of a shit driver?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            i can assure you that your saturn is much more dangerous

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Have you tried not hitting shit? It's worked good for me now for like 10 years of driving. Every car I've ever owned would likely kill me in a bad accident. Think I give a frick?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            you're the one who brought safety into the argument homosexual

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            No I didn't. I only responded with the comment you replied to.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I almost bought one, it was advertised as 8.5k new. I look at the prices now and wonder how anyone can justify paying for that 3cylinder pos. Thankfully I had enough sense and got a lightly used Prius. Shits good

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Even at $8.5k they were pretty much not worth it because you could get a much better lightly used shitbox for the same price.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Uh… not since like 2020. $8,500 is the price of a 150,000 miles 12 year old Corolla. That’s not “lightly used”.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >undeserved smug sense of self importance
            >drives a fricking prius
            Pottery

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            the one driving the $500 saturn doesn't get to call other people poor

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >20-year-old GM shitpile
            poetry

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Still an upgrade over a Mirage lol. At least it has 4 cylinders and can cruise at 100mph. Oh and it doesn't have 155's lmao.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            The fact that a new car feels as good as one of the worst vehicles ever sold really says a lot about how shitty a Mirage really is.

            >shills his GM shitpile
            >shits on it to save face
            absolute cope

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >There is no vehicle that fills the same niche the Mirage does
            Wrong

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            It's been discontinued.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Better snap one up now then!

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            The Chevy Spark is the poster child for lemon law.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Unreliable shitpile

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Eh, they're still selling for like 11000 Canadian here. That's 8500usd

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            And they still blow their Jatcos and leak oil terribly.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Jatcos
            Ew, Jatco

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Yes, the Spark has the same CVT the Mirage uses. The Spark, of course, is the only one with reliability issues.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            How do they have the same trans, yet one sucks and the other doesn't?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Actual trained, experienced, unionized GM workers put them together in South Korea, the mirage is put together by mass surplus labor in Thailand where the works get injured daily

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            The Spark is the one with reliability problems, you dumb Black person.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >lemon law: the car

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            post your car homosexual

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            You didn't answer his question

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Anon we’ve had like 80% inflation over the last 2 years.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Local Mitsu dealer is doing 5k over msrp on new mirages

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Car, 2022 edition

    wish i bought one when they were going for under 10k pre covid

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The israeli dealers around me all have "mandatory" add ons like winter packages and undercoating. For the price of a mirage I can pay like 1500 bucks more and get a fricking corolla. What's the point of a mirage?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      And this is for the base model 5 speed mirage. They want 21,000 Canadian dollars out the door for the mirage. The corolla is like 22,700 out the door. What kind of fricking moron would buy the mirage?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Somebody who wants a car that's as easy to work on as a tractor with better fuel economy.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Because that Corolla comes with a $5000 dealer markup so no you can’t “get a fricking Corolla”

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I got my 22 corolla for msrp. Waited 6 weeks for it

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Ok well the same applies to a mirage. If you’re willing to shop around and wait you can get one for 16k out the door. 25% less for a 25% shittier car. Seems fair.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    If you get it cheap enough like 16k out the door. Sure. 100k mile warranty A->B car with super good MPG's. Why not.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Okay bros I'm considering cuz the warranty looks good. But I do have one issue. I'm in the army so I don't make alot. How would I look as a soldier driving this shit around base and surrounding areas trying to pick up girls

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Girls don't give a frick about cars as long as they don't blow smoke and leak everywhere.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      be a man and get a 30% apr 7 year loan for mustang

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >soldier
      >girls
      Anon I would avoid women until you are out of the service you are guaranteed too moronic not to get taken advantage of and have some harpy pressure you into marriage so she can collect your gibs, get fat, and cheat on you while you’re deployed.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Do you really want a dear John letter that bad?

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    never buy any car newer than 10 years old
    never finance
    never pay 20k for a mirage
    pay 3000 for a 2002 mirage instead

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I think ima get this bros. Something about it attracts me to it

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The Mirage is utter dogshit. If you absolutely need a poverty spec new car, buy a Spark while they're still selling them.

    For the intelligent answer, buy a 10 year old Honda Accord or Honda Fit if you need basic, cheap, and reliable transportation.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Do you not understand how bad used car prices are right now?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I do, but that doesn't mean there aren't some acceptable options out there:

        https://www.cargurus.com/Cars/inventorylisting/viewDetailsFilterViewInventoryListing.action?sourceContext=carGurusHomePageModel&entitySelectingHelper.selectedEntity=d585&zip=63144#listing=337420244/NONE

        Also, topic doesn't say "I MUST BUY A CAR TODAY OR MY DOG WILL BE SHOT". Also also, the used market is so inflated because we're still running a 3~ million deficit of new cars entering the market this year, so it's not like new cars are magically not inflated as well.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Honda Fit prices were bad before covid, motherfrickers wanting $10k+ for their 200k mile models.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >automatic Honda
          disregarded

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Don't do it. I work at a rental company and every time i have to drive one of these i fear for my life.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    These things are fine, just fine.
    Pretty reliable, good warranty for anything else.
    Easy to work on other than the cvt.
    Good mpg, but slow as frick.
    Not super safe either.
    But for A -> B for cheap,it'll do the trick.

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    OP needs to find a slightly used Toyota Yaris.

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I rented one for a road trip(haven’t had a car for 9 months but getting one this week) and man it’s a real piece of shit. Go for it anon.

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I remember when dealers were basically giving this shitbox away pre covid

    Everyone keeps saying the car price crash is coming, but I see no fricking sign of it

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Everyone keeps saying the car price crash is coming, but I see no fricking sign of it
      It's here. My car trade-in peaked a month ago and sold for a $5k profit. Now it's worth $2k less already.

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    americans are actually paying 5 figures for a made in china mitsubishi

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Most aren't that dumb. There's a reason why they sell like 200 Mirages a year.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Why is the Mirage a bad car for its class?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Why is cancer a bad disease to have?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            You literally can't give me a reason why it's a bad economy car. You Douggays never can.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Hundreds of people in this thread have already explained why it's a terrible car. Go deal with your crippling buyers remorse somewhere else ffs. It's a fricking 3 cylinder vehicle in America...

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            They haven't. The only critiques that have been listed are that it's slow and "It's just bad because it's bad." Name some reliability problems these cars have. You literally can't.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            When has any Mitsubishi ever been reliable? Why would their bottom of the barrel shitbox be any better?

            https://www.carcomplaints.com/Mitsubishi/Mirage/2015/

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >When has any Mitsubishi ever been reliable?
            Almost everything they built prior to the Nissan/Renault alliance. Also that link proves the Mirage isn't a bad car.

            This is a bad car.
            https://www.carcomplaints.com/Chevrolet/Spark/2013/

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            So a Mirage is barely more reliable than one of the least reliable shitboxes for sale in the US? Boy you're great at selling these lmao.

            >why would their bottom of the barrel shitbox be any better?
            Because bottom of the barrel shitboxes are well known for being simple and easy to work on. Have you never owned a car?

            The OG Beetles are simple and easy to work on. They're still shit. Lada's are simple and easy to work on. They're still shit.

            You know there's defending a shitty car like a BRZ or a WRX then there's defending a Mirage. Just stop. It's really pathetic.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >So a Mirage is barely more reliable than one of the least reliable shitboxes for sale in the US?
            Are you actually comparing premature brake wear to engine failure?

            You still never answered

            You literally can't give me a reason why it's a bad economy car. You Douggays never can.

            why it's bad.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            What part of it has 3 fricking cylinders is so hard for you to understand? What part of there are better vehicles in it's price range is so hard to understand?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Why do you need more than 3 cylinders in a 2000lb subcompact? You do realize nobody buying this type of car gives a frick about how well it can race, right?

            So a Mirage is barely more reliable than one of the least reliable shitboxes for sale in the US? Boy you're great at selling these lmao.

            [...]
            The OG Beetles are simple and easy to work on. They're still shit. Lada's are simple and easy to work on. They're still shit.

            You know there's defending a shitty car like a BRZ or a WRX then there's defending a Mirage. Just stop. It's really pathetic.

            >barely more reliable
            I think perhaps you are on drugs.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Why do you need more than 3 cylinders in a 2000lb subcompact?
            Because we live in America.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >why would their bottom of the barrel shitbox be any better?
            Because bottom of the barrel shitboxes are well known for being simple and easy to work on. Have you never owned a car?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            bad bait

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >hundreds of people

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >a fricking 3 cylinder vehicle
            I drive a Smart, 3 cylinders, 3 nuts per wheel, just like God intended

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The Mirage is built in Thailand and the Philippines.

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