Delica Canada | Mitsubishi Van Club

Have been looking at delicas for 3 months, ever since i was shopping around for an versatile 4x4 diesel powered, did'nt find much offered in north america besides the expensive dodge sprint (mercedes diesel). then i saw a delica downtown + after some research i was hooked. deal should go through tommoro so quite excited we will have one.>>john + brenda

sprint i don"t believe are offered as 4x4 but there is a company down south that will do a 4x4 conversion on any NEW van. mecedes unimog was another candidate but the price is way to rich at this point.

sprinters are offered as 4x4 from the factory, but until recently only the 2wd version arrived in north america, rumour has it though that you can now get the 4x4 version here in Canada... (I haven't confirmed that rumour yet) either way though, the 2wd version starts at over 40k... and the delicas seem to top out under 20k... you figure it out...

This is exactly why the "Big Three" are so scared of these vehicles in Canada and especially why the dealers in BC are trying to get the 15yr-rule changed to 25yrs - THEY CAN'T COMPETE WITH THE DELICA L300s!!!!! (wait until the L400s are going to be available in a couple years' time 2010?). We bought one of these vehicles primarily for the price and the fuel economy, but the reality is there is not a vehicle in the North American market at this time that:

-is a shiftable 2X4 to 4X4 (most are full 4X4 or AWD)
-has a 2.5 litre diesel engine (most are over 5 or 6 litres)
-seats 7 (or 8, unless you want the monster Ford Excursion)
-has up to 5 sunroofs (Nissan has one really long sunroof down the middle)
-gets 25+ mpg (Big Three still struggling with that, unless it's a hybrid)
-costs less than 40k$ (don't even get me started on this one); and,
-isn't a special order that only comes in Cinnamon Sunshine Red or Deep Galaxy Black exterior with leather interior and faux-wood dashboard accenting and the 9 cup-holder interior/exterior accessory package that has to be special run in eight-and-a-half months' time when the factory is in the annual-season-change-over-period-before-the-new-model-run-begins setup

At the end of the day, buy one because they're cool and reasonably priced. Drive one because you love it! (and you will, I promise)

Tks Marameisto - I second everything you've said!!!!!
Cheers!

tommoro is today (how do i see the posted pics and not get a little red x.) could be my computer but i see about 1/2 the posted pics. thanks

Try using FireFox instead of Internet Explorer as your browser

Safari on a Mac works well also.

Thanks, does that mean that you can see the pics + i can't or they did'nt post properly either?

Your picture uploaded fine. I'm able to view it on my computer, using Safari on my Apple and Firefox on my PC.

Some web browsers are proprietary (read quirky) and will only properly format pages that have been written for them. IE is notorious for this, and some big companies that use MS products will develop pages that only open with IE (banks, finance, etc). This is to ensure that the data on the page and the interactive cells work a particular way (passwords and the like, for example).

Firefox, Opera and Safari cheat the server into thinking it IE is being used and circumvent this proprietary hang-up. And considering the first two are open-source, they get updated a whole lot more quickly than IE. Tabbed viewing came out about 2 or 3 years before IE7 'introduced' it (for example).