Mitsubishi in Australia

Mitsubishi is another Japanese car maker that serves as a rival to Nissan and Toyota. Formerly a part of Japan’s largest industrial group, Mitsubishi Motors began in 1917. Introducing the Mitsubishi Model A proved to be the first step in the developing automotive company. However, these vehicles were manufactured and assembled completely by hand, so their expense and the time needed to produce the automobiles proved to be a great limitation. However, as the new decade arrived, Mitsubishi began manufacturing aircraft and airplane engines. Becoming Mitsubishi Aircraft Co, it merged with the shipbuilding firm of the same name to create Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

After World War II, the entire country of Japan underwent reorganization and restructuring, especially its companies capable of producing military equipment. For this reason, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was split into thirds and the company again began to manufacture vehicles. The first new vehicle manufactured by this split subsection of Mitsubishi was a motor scooter, which worked well with the gas crisis left upon the country at the end of the war.