New Company Slogan for Mitsubishi
Following yesterdays news of Mitsubishi and PSA Peugeot Citroen starting feasibility study for a long term Electric Vehicle cooperation comes the Japanese marques new company slogan, or tag as they call it.
Mitsubishi will from this summer on promote themselves with 'Drive@Earth', first in Japan only but the rest of the world will follow. Sometime in 2009 Mitsubishi will launch their i MiEV electric car in Japan.
The new slogan intends to convey two messages, firstly that cars connect us the earth. Mitsubishi does that with a proven track record of four-wheel-drive. The second message is the inevitable environmental angle and that no company can function in the long run without a healthy planet to live on.
Mitsubishi Motors announces new corporate tagline
Today Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) announced a new global tagline in order to clarify across all markets its direction for the future. The tagline, "Drive@earth," will be launched first in Japan during the summer of 2008, and is intended to convey two major themes:
First, Drive@earth means that automobiles connect us to the world. Mitsubishi's 4WD legacy has catapulted a generation of drivers to every corner of the earth, from desert dunes to city streets. Rally-tested toughness, performance and reliability make Mitsubishi Motors a trusted name on five continents. Through this trust, Mitsubishi vehicles forge a connection to customers, to communities, and ultimately to the natural world around us.
Second, Drive@earth means a new emphasis on environmental issues. It is the simple recognition that no enterprise — automotive or otherwise — makes sense without the context of a healthy planet. With climate change and dwindling oil reserves on the minds of drivers around the world, automakers have a special responsibility. MMC sets as its ideal the synergy between dynamic and environmental performance, and will continue to develop technologies — such as the zero-emissions i MiEV electric vehicle — that show as much care for the environment outside as for the occupants within.
The new tagline acts as a bridge between the company's heritage and its future. Launched in this, the first year of MMC's post-revitalization business plan, Drive@earth is an announcement of the company's renewed focus, and a symbol of its intention to build a new era of sustainable partnership.
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This is almost as annoying as companies that put seemingly random words together in a form that could possibly make a valid sentence if the marketing people hadn't decided it looked cooler to add full stops between all the words.
Makes. No. Sense.