The Mitsubishi Dion is a compact MPV

Compact MPV

A compact MPV is a car classification used in Europe to describe multi-purpose vehicle versions of small family cars , fitting between the mini MPV and large MPV sub-segments...

 produced by Japan

Japan

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ese automaker

Automaker

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 Mitsubishi Motors

Mitsubishi Motors

is a multinational automaker headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. In 2009 it was the fifth-largest Japan-based automaker and the 17th-largest in the world measured by production...

. Following its exhibition at the 1999 Tokyo Motor Show

Tokyo Motor Show

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, it was introduced on January 25, 2000 priced from ¥

Japanese yen

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1,598,000–1,848,000, it was built on a stretched Lancer

Mitsubishi Lancer

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/Mirage

Mitsubishi Mirage

Mitsubishi launched the Mirage as a three-door front wheel drive hatchback in 1978, as a response to the first fuel crisis some years before. It had a distinctive design with large windows and Mitsubishi's Super Shift transmission . A five-door joined the range in 1979...

 platform, with seven seats in a 2–3–2 configuration. The name was derived from Dionysus

Dionysus

Dionysus was the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness and ecstasy in Greek mythology. His name in Linear B tablets shows he was worshipped from c. 1500—1100 BC by Mycenean Greeks: other traces of Dionysian-type cult have been found in ancient Minoan Crete...

, the Greek god of wine and joy.

Annual production and sales

The company's initial sales target for the car was 4,500 in the first month, a figure exceeded by 1,000 after the first two weeks.

Year	Production	Sales
1999	15,282	n/a
2000	30,977	30,225
2001	9,699	10,601
2002	5,696	5,925
2003	1,881	2,131
2004	2,697	2,382
2005	1,797	2,149
2006	-	33