OREANDA-NEWS. July 30, 2015. Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors will make the main regions of production of cars the following countries: Japan, Southeast Asia and Russia. The company announced the stopped of car production in the United States due to low sales. "Japan, the ASEAN countries and Russia will be the main points of production for our company", - said the President and the CEO of Mitsubishi Motors, Tetsuro Aikawa.

The company confirmed plans to stop the production at its North American plant in Normal, Illinois, wrote the newspaper "Vedomosti". Since 2012, the plant produced a single model - a crossover Outlander Sport (in Russian - ASX), which in addition to North America, was delivered to Russia, the Middle East and Latin America. Last year the plant produced for export 29,000 vehicles, among which 17,000 had been assembled for the markets of Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. Totally in 2014, it was produced 69,178 crossovers in the plant. According to sources, the recession in Russia has become one of the factors, which influenced the long-term prospects of the plant, "the collapse of exports made it impossible to keep the production capacity at the same time in Japan and the United States."

The cars of the next model year will be delivered to the US market from the plant in Japan. Production of this model at the plant in the city of Okazaki in the Japanese prefecture of Aichi will be increased.