My Mazda is part... Mitsubishi?

"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury) 02/25/2019 at 15:03 • Filed to: None

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Well, their cars may be crap, but they make a fine remote...

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 02/25/2019 at 15:08

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I’ve had Mitsubishi VCRs, TVs, and optical drives. They are a solid electronics manufacturer.

nerd_racing > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 02/25/2019 at 15:11

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Mitsubishi electronics makes a ton of stuff.  If you dig deep enough, most consumer products will have their symbol in there somewhere. 

facw > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 02/25/2019 at 15:12

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My Volvo had considerably more than just a fob (don’t actually know who made the fob, it was different than the contemporary mainly Volvo ones). Regardless, I always imagined that when I brought my S40 to Volvo specialist they were irritated at me for sticking them with a Dutch Mitsubishi rather than a real-Volvo.

jimz > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 02/25/2019 at 15:21

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that’s MEL (Mitsubishi Electric Co. Ltd,) a separate company from Mitsubishi Motors, though both are under the umbrella of the Mitsubishi keiretsu.  MELco supplies to lots of automakers.

dogisbadob > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 02/25/2019 at 15:22

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Mitsubishi makes lots of god things. But I fucking HATE those combination key remotes though!

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. 02/25/2019 at 15:31

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They’re a leading HVAC manufacturer  too

JeepJeremy > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 02/25/2019 at 15:35

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I wonder where the fob is actually made? There’s a Mitsu electronics facility in Mason, Ohio and that’s just right down the road from me. 

Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 02/25/2019 at 15:42

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That’s because Mitsubishi makes FUCKING EVERYTHING . They’re a cyberpunk-class conglomerate.

Cars? Mitsubishi Motors, which has nothing to do with Mitsubishi any more.

Nuclear reactors? They build ‘em. Farm equipment? Yep. TVs and VCRs? Yup. Floppy drives? Uhhuh. Computer systems? Yep. Computer software ? That too.

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks 02/25/2019 at 15:52

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Not to mention robotics:

M.T. Blake > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 02/25/2019 at 15:55

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I had a Mitsubishi VCR as a kid and it was a tank. Damn thing was at least 24” by 24”. Bigger than the TV set on top of it. It must have weighed 30lbs too. How far we have come!

ranwhenparked > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 02/25/2019 at 16:20

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Probably Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, not Mitsubishi Motors. They've got a pretty big OEM auto parts division (Mitsubishi Motors is, obviously, a big customer of theirs). 

Pich, with Z32 now featuring Civic [Si] / No > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 02/25/2019 at 16:39

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my Z32 CAS is Mitsubishi as well, they do a lot of electronics

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 02/25/2019 at 17:33

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If it has a Turbo I wouldn’t be surprised if that was also made by Mitsubishi 

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 02/26/2019 at 10:01

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Don’t know if it was Mitsubishi but my first gen Mazda3’s remote had incredible range.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 02/26/2019 at 15:39

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If Mitsubishi doesn’t make it, they made it at one time in their corporate history...

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks 02/26/2019 at 15:40

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yup.

Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 02/26/2019 at 15:48

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That’s not even the fun stuff.

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Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > MiniGTI - now with XJ6 02/26/2019 at 15:53

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As long as the battery is healthy this remote does quite well, and that's without using my head to extend the range.

ranwhenparked > facw 02/26/2019 at 16:18

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Well, the 1st Gen S40 was built in a Ford/Volvo-Mitsubishi joint venture plant in the Netherlands and shared a platform with the Mitsubishi Carisma. I think the doors and most of the glass were the same, too. 

facw > ranwhenparked 02/26/2019 at 16:30

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The joi nt venture predates Ford’s acquisition of Volvo, though obviously they took over that when they bought out Volvo (I got my S40 on the Ford Employee A-Plan, which was a pretty nice deal ). But yeah, the car had a Volvo engine and interior, and the front and rear bodywork was Volvo specific, but otherwise I think they shared components.

ranwhenparked > facw 02/26/2019 at 16:48

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They did a good job differentiating, they looked pretty different. 

facw > ranwhenparked 02/26/2019 at 17:01

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Yeah, the S/V40 front end is nearly identical in appearance to the first-gen C70 (I think they share some parts) as opposed to looking at all Mit subishi- ish. The only thing really says Mitsubishi about the S40 in my mind is the dark gray plastic strip along the roof gutters (Volvo seemed to prefer body color for that on their cars, even when using unpainted trim elsewhere.)