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Old 12-01-06, 01:08 PM
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Took off alternator and noticed.....

That the back of the alternator had a mitsubishi logo on it.

What's up with that?
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WTF..my TV says it's made by Mitsubishi too!!!!
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and your turbo has a hitachi logo on it, what's your point?
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Mitsubishi doesn't only make cars you know...

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Old 12-01-06, 01:26 PM
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Mitsubishi Motors is just a tiny, tiny, insignificantly small part of the Mitsubishi Corporation.
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Mitsubishi is a HUGE remanufacture be glad to know that cause Mitsubishi has GREAT electronics!
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Originally Posted by WNT2CREALPAIN
That the back of the alternator had a mitsubishi logo on it.

What's up with that?
our starter has the same logo on it it too. its mitsubishi electric, there are like 3 different mistu companies, mitsu electric, motors and some other one.
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Yeah i was dumbfounded too when i saw Mitsu on my alt. then i did some research and found that mistubishi is a giant company manufactoring a **** load of stuff. cars is just one of there smaller segments

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Don't you know, Mitisbushi made EVERYTHING in the late 80's/90s. You see their logo on stock bodykits.
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if you have an NA the black thing connected to the pressure sensor isfrom them also.
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Mitsubushi even made airplanes back in WW2... the Mistubishi Zero being the most common. also the most famous... since they were used as kamikazis.
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Similarly, Fuji Heavy Industries (Subaru) makes a shitload of other stuff as well.
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and mazda makes construction equipment, point being?
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Quick history lesson (I am a history major and have studied Japan). Mitsubishi is one of several large corporations that has dominated Japanese industry since the late 1800s (Mitsui and Sumitomo are some of the other ones). There's nothing weird about Mitsubishi making your alternator. They make most of the turbos out there too--WRX's, STi's, SRT-4's, and a bunch of other cars use Mitsu turbos.

Hell, Toyota used to manufacture equipment for making textiles...
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A while back I found that Mitsubishi makes power plants as well. I think their steam turbines are found on several neuclear reactors. But may be wrong on that one.

http://www.mpshq.com/

Found that they do much more than what I just listed:
http://www.mitsubishicorp.com/en/bg/...aerospace.html

Cargo/oil ships, aerospace, various heavy industrial applications and such.. wow.
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Yeah... and Lamborghini makes tractors... mitsubishi has made pretty much every alternator Ive worked on
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Originally Posted by FCKing1995
Yeah... and Lamborghini makes tractors.
And so did Porsche, actually.
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Saw a lambo tractor on a trailer once, had to stop and admire it, looks pretty much like any other tractor but it wasm uch nicer and looked better made
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I've never seen one myself. I was really suprised at the Porsche tractor, though. It was sitting right next to a 959 in the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart.
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He got some 34's on that hoe Thats almost like the one I saw

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and BMW did airplanes in ww2, the emblem is white propellers flying around a blue sky.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_Motor_Corporation

I remember reading on Corksport's website that they derived their name from the original name for Mazda, Toyo Cork Kogyo Co, who made, of all things, Cork.

Mazda began as the Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd, founded in Japan in 1920. Toyo Kogyo moved from manufacturing machine tools to vehicles, with the introduction of the Mazda-Go in 1931, although they produced weapons for the Japanese military throughout the Second World War. The company formally adopted the Mazda name in 1984, though every automobile sold from the beginning bore that name. The first four-wheel car, the Mazda R360 was introduced in 1960, followed by the Mazda Carol in 1962.
And our friends at Nintendo...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo

Nintendo Company, Limited (任天堂 or ニンテンドー Nintendō?; NASDAQ: NTDOY, TYO: 7974 usually referred to as simply Nintendo) is a multinational corporation founded on September 23, 1889[1] in Kyoto, Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards.[2] In the mid-twentieth century, the company tried several small niche businesses, such as a love hotel and a taxi company.[3] Over the years, it became a video game company, growing into one of the most powerful in the industry. Aside from video games, Nintendo is also the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners, a Major League Baseball team in Seattle, Washington.
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since they were used as kamikazis.
They must have never perfected the landing gear
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yea, i replaced my alt. too and noticed it. i pulled the my old one off and was like, wtf, and the one i found off an FB at a junkyard had it too. good to know why now


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