A car company can not survive on the backs of only two models, unless those models are premium/luxury models with huge margins. Mitsubishi’s two bread and butter models are both at/or near the bottom of their respective classes. It doesn’t matter if the Outlander and Lancer outsell their Subaru counterparts. Compared to the Civic/Corolla/Mazda3/Sentra/Focus/Elantra/etc… the Lancer doesn’t even make a blip on the radar. And really, would people shopping for a Rav4/CRV even know that Mitsubishi makes an equivalent? Would they even consider it?
I predict that Mitsubishi will retreat from the North American marketplace much like Isuzu and Daihatsu did years earlier. The writing is on the wall. Get them while they last.