MITSUBISHI’S FACELIFTED AND UPDATED Outlander range has been announced for Australia, offering a bold new look, more advanced drivetrains and a refreshed interior.

The biggest change is, of course, the entirely new front-end that’s been grafted to the Outlander’s nose.

Inspired by the aggressive snout of the high-performance Lancer Evolution X, the new trapezoidal ‘jet fighter’ grille [...]

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MITSUBISHI HAS TODAY released the limited edition Outlander ACTiV, ahead of an expected update to the Outlander later this year.

Featuring a new chrome grille unique to the ACTiV, the new limited edition Outlander wears an alloy nudge bar up front and roof-rail cross bars. Exclusive ACTiV badging, privacy glass and fog lamps round out [...]

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Mitsubishi has unveiled the latest evolution of its compact SUV Outlander, revealing a performance-orientated GT Prototype at the New York Auto Show.

Drawing on influences from Mitsubishi’s Lancer sport sedans, the Outlander GT prototype is the centrepiece of the Japanese manufacturer’s exhibit at New York.

Mitsubishi’s design department has incorporated a number of striking physical changes compared [...]

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This year’s New York Auto Show will see Mitsubishi display its Outlander GT Prototype, but don’t be fooled by the ‘Prototype’ in the title. What you’re looking at is an updated version of the Mitsubishi Outlander.

The Outlander GT Prototype is most likely what we’ll see as a facelifted production update to the current Outlander. On [...]

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Mitsubishi has released a special edition of its popular Outlander model, titled simply Outlander RX.

Packing the larger of the Outlander’s two engine options, the Outlander RX sports a 3.0 litre sports-tuned V6 MIVEC mill and a six-speed automatic transmission, featuring sports mode as standard.  Fuel economy is impressive, with the V6 returning 10.9l/100km.

The special edition [...]

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The Australian arm of Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi Motors Australia Limited, have today announced a solid sales growth for the first quarter of 2008. The Colt and its topless sibling the Colt Cabriolet are both up nearly 25% both, which is no small effort no matter how you slice your quarters.

The Express has had some not [...]

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In a further step along the evolutionary path for transmissions, Mitsubishi has announced that it will be selling its Outlander SUV with the option of a Twin-Clutch SST gearbox, the same one currently found in the EVO X.

The high-performance gearbox will initially be offered in 2009 as an option on the Outlander 2.2 Di-D with [...]

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Mitsubishi Motors Australia Ltd (MMAL) together with its parent company Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) has confirmed that while it is committed to being a long-term participant in the Australian car market, regretfully its Tonsley Park production facility in Adelaide, which manufactures the 380 sedan, will cease operations.

Mitsubishi Motors Australia Ltd President and CEO Robert [...]

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Mitsubishi will be officially unveiling their refreshed 2009 Galant sedan at the Chicago Auto Show next week. Following the now requisite image leak, Mitsubishi have released the official images and press release to give us all a taste of what to expect. The North American Galant has mirrored our own Mitsubishi 380 in much of [...]

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Its been a big year for Mitsubishi with the introduction of their new CJ Lancer range and the recent unveiling of the all new Evolution X at the Sydney Motor Show in October. Perhaps, the only blot on their copy book is the slow selling 380, which despite being an excellent product seems unable to [...]

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Toyota may be storming away from the competition in Australian automotive sales but the good news isn’t exclusively theirs. Mitsubishi Motors Australia Limited (MMAL) have released their sales figures for October and recorded their tenth straight month of sales increases. On a year-to-date basis, MMAL has recorded a solid sales increase of 20.6 percent against [...]

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Today the new Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X goes on sale in Japan, and details have arisen from the company’s official press release about different specifications of Evo’s available.

PRESS RELEASE

Tokyo, October 1, 2007 - Mitsubishi Motors Corporation announces today that it will launch the Lancer Evolution X high-performance 4WD sedan, newest of the company’s legendary vehicles, [...]

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