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Automotive articles 6 [126]2008 Mitsubishi Lancer: Made Even Better The debut of 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer sedan was right on timing. The Mitsubishi Lancer is exactly what shoppers are looking for—smaller, more fuel efficient, with improved ride and handling capabilities plus a pleasing perky, new four-cylinder engine. The new 2008 Mitsubishi sedan also offer a technology that includes an optional 30 gigabyte hard drive in the dashboard, and seven air bags as compared to other small cars that only have six. Aside from the usual frontal bags, head curtain bags, and seat mounted side air bags, the new Mitsubishi Lancer has installed an additional knee air bag help in keeping the driver properly positioned especially in cases of frontal crash. The starting manufacturers suggested retail price, inclusive of destination charge is $14,615 for the Lancer DE with 152 horsepower, four-cylinder engine, manual transmission, but with air- conditioning. The lancer with air-condition and a continuously variable transmission is price at $16,515. The competitors of Mitsubishi Lancer in the small sedan segment include the 2007 Honda Civic sedan with a tag price of $15,605 comes with a manual transmission and without air-conditioning; and the 2007 Mazda3 which cost $14,490 with manual transmission and no air-conditioning. The new Lancer unlike its competition offer more horsepower than the 140 horses in the Civic stable and the 148 horses in the Mazda3 sedan base. Lancer also comes with a more generous warranty as compared to the rest of its competitors in the small car segment. Mitsubishi offer five years/600,000-mile limited, bumper-to-bumper coverage and 10 years/100,000-mile limited powertrain coverage. Unfortunately despite the power, features, and the affordability of the Lancer sedan still it is a slow seller. Just imagine in the last two calendar years of the Mitsubishi Lancer it was only been able to sell lesser than 28,000 Lancers in the United States