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    $189 Mirage lease deal: "Not Cheap Enough" - Car & Driver

    Another drive-by smear job:

    The three-cylinder Mitsubishi Mirage hatchback is detestable headed toward awful after a stop for a 7-Eleven hot dog. But it’s even easier to despise when its lease offer is $189 per month plus $3388 at signing. That’s dang near $3400 of your money just to start driving a terrible car for three years. The very slightly less crummy Mirage G4 sedan can be had for $199 per month with $3398 up front. Have you considered Merrell hiking boots? Or taking the bus?
    https://blog.caranddriver.com/199-le...-january-2018/


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    Clickbait factories must keep up production numbers in order to continue on, despite whatever toxic discharges are released. It somehow helps justify their continued existence.

    I don't know why I bothered reading it, as it comes across as yet another 'reviewer' who likely hasn't even driven a Mirage and is simply adding to the rest of the echo-chamber crowd, like chickens in a hen house when one clucks the rest follow.

    Look at the reviews of those who at least drive one - they tend to at least acknowledge it's good points.

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    I take that back. It seems that the author John Pearley Huffman may have actually driven a Mirage:

    Quote Originally Posted by The New York Times: It’s Cheap, but Is It Overpriced? | By JOHN PEARLEY HUFFMAN | MAY 23, 2014
    Around the Block

    Car and Driver magazine measured the Mirage crawling to 60 m.p.h. in 10.9 seconds.
    Although in this article he never claims to have ever taken one for a spin...

    In fact, he plagiarizes himself in his current article as he refers to hiking boots and public transportation in both. How creative.


    He is rebutted here:

    Jalopnik - Countersteer: This Brutal NYT Mirage Review Is What's Wrong With Cheap Car Reviews


    But I'm certain all this has been covered here before...
    Last edited by Eggman; 01-26-2018 at 07:55 PM.

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    Wow - I didn't notice it was Huffman who regurgitated this latest little smear.

    He wrote one of the worst US reviews of the car. Stirred up a bit of a hornet's nest in the auto-journo community. His original review triggered Torchinsky's response:

    This Brutal NYT Mirage Review Is What's Wrong With Cheap Car Reviews

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eggman View Post
    simply adding to the rest of the echo-chamber crowd, like chickens in a hen house when one clucks the rest follow.
    I think that's definitely going on. With respect to the Mirage, it's become the go-to car to trash talk.

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    Sorry for the on-going edits. Stream-of-thought responses - like any good knee-jerk reaction - take time to properly develop.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MetroMPG View Post
    $189 per month plus $3388 at signing
    I have a better idea...Find a new Mirage for $10K.

    You can put $3K down, borrow 7,000...and buy it for about $200 over 3 years with today's new car interest rates.

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    Shush, with your financial logic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MetroMPG View Post
    Wow - I didn't notice it was Huffman who regurgitated this latest little smear.

    He wrote one of the worst US reviews of the car. Stirred up a bit of a hornet's nest in the auto-journo community. His original review triggered Torchinsky's response:

    This Brutal NYT Mirage Review Is What's Wrong With Cheap Car Reviews
    Favorite picture & quote from Torchinsky's article.



    I managed to have fun in that 3-pot little Mirage. I drove it hard and pushed its limits and the result was a pretty good time, considering. I drove it with my wife and son and never once did I feel like my life was in danger. It's so vastly better than the entry-level cars we had years ago, it's not even funny.

    And safety-wise, I'd rather be in a 2014 Mirage heading into a wall than a 1977 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow. So all of you reviewing cars under $15,000 and *****ing that you can see stitching or a seam or a screw head can all go take your pampered little new-media hands and rub some velvet on your cheek or whatever you do to calm yourself after you touch some cheap plastic.
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    Remember what happened with the Ford Edsel? Everyone hated it. Now it's worth a lot of money to a collector. Mirage is the collector car of the future. Invest in Mirage!


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