[Moppie]

My mother used to own a Jap import Gallant with the old 4g62? (1800 DOHC) which recieved a fair bit of abuse and stood up quite well against it.
And my father has owned several Japanese and Australian assembled V3000's as company cars which also went extremly well.

Mitsi are no better or worse than any other Japanese Manufactor, being they are generaly average in terms of build quality on thier base model cars, moving towards some of the best with thier higher end cars.
But of course thier will be local variations, and with most Manufactors now having plants in the US and importing fewer and fewer cars I cant say anything about the reliablity of US built Mitsi's.