Infiniti M sedan will be sold in Japan under the brand Mitsubishi

In the line of Mitsubishi Motors will be a new flagship model, which will be the ideological successor to the sedan Diamante, whose production was discontinued in 2004.

According to KHABAR KHODRO, On it informs edition Automotive News.New product will be a sedan version new Infiniti M, which in the Japanese market sold under the Nissan Fuga. This car producer will receive under an agreement between Nissan and Mitsubishi, providing for the joint development and production of machines, as well as an intensive exchange of models that each company has the right to sell under its own brand.

, Mitsubishi Motors has reported a new model name, saying only that it will go on sale next summer, but only in the Japanese market.Release of previous flagship sedan Mitsubishi – Diamante – was launched in 1990. Peak sales of this model came in 1993 when it sold 25 000 267 of these machines. Subsequently, the demand has fallen sharply – to about 10 thousand cars per year. In connection with this production Diamante was decided to stop. Mitsubishi has started to develop the next generation Diamante in the mid-2000s, but soon the project was shelved due to financial difficulties.

At the moment, “Nissan” Mitsubishi also agreed to provide compactvan NV200 Vanette and began negotiations to supply a compact electric hatchback Mitsubishi i-MiEV to its release under its own brand.