Diamond-Star Motors

Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. (MMNA) Manufacturing Division
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Company type	Division
Industry	Automobile manufacturing
Founded	October 1985
Defunct	November 2015
Headquarters	100 N. Mitsubishi Motorway, Normal, Illinois 61761, United States
Key people	Jerry Berwanger (EVP, COO); Hideyasu Tagaya (Chairman, MMNA)
Number of employees	1,900
Parent	Mitsubishi Motors North America
Website	MitsubishiManufacturing.com

Diamond-Star Motors (DSM) was an automobile-manufacturing joint venture between the Chrysler Corporation and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC).^[1] The name came from the parent companies' respective logos: three diamonds (Mitsubishi) and a pentastar (Chrysler).^[2] Diamond-Star Motors was officially renamed Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America, Inc. (MMMA) in 1995, four years after Mitsubishi took sole control of the plant, and from 2002 to 2016 its official name had been Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. (MMNA) Manufacturing Division.^[3]

In the automotive enthusiast community, DSM, especially used in the singular (e.g. a DSM) generally refers to the original first- and second-generation Mitsubishi Eclipse, Eagle Talon, and Plymouth Laser, which all shared the same Diamond-Star Motors vehicle platform.

^ "Mixing Cultures On the Assembly Line", John Holusha, The New York Times, June 5, 1988
^ " Business People; Mitsubishi Executive Joins Chrysler Venture", John Holusha, The New York Times, June 15, 1991
^ History of MMMA Archived 2007-01-17 at the Wayback Machine, MMMA official website

[nyt88-1] "Mixing Cultures On the Assembly Line", John Holusha, The New York Times, June 5, 1988

[nyt91-2] " Business People; Mitsubishi Executive Joins Chrysler Venture", John Holusha, The New York Times, June 15, 1991

[history-3] History of MMMA Archived 2007-01-17 at the Wayback Machine, MMMA official website

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