Mitsubishi News
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The 2017 Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-In Hybrid will now arrive in the U.S. in Summer 2016.
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2017 Mitsubishi Mirage: Styling, Trim, Suspension Updates At LA Auto Show
The 2017 Mitsubishi Mirage debuted at the 2015 Los Angeles Auto Show.
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Mitsubishi eX: Live Shots Of Electric SUV Concept At Tokyo Motor Show
The only new battery-electric concept car from a major automaker was unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show today, from a company that hasn't had a lot of new product lately. The Mitsubishi eX Electric Crossover Concept is just what its name would indicate: a concept version of a compact crossover...
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Mitsubishi eX All-Electric SUV Concept To Debut At Tokyo Motor Show
The Mitsubishi eX concept will debut at the 2015 Tokyo Motor Show later this month.
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2017 Mitsubishi Mirage To Get Updates After Skipping 2016 Model Year
The Mitsubishi Mirage minicar has been an unexpected success for the U.S. arm of what's usually described as "struggling Japanese automaker Mitsubishi." Sales volume after its 2014 launch was roughly double what the company said it expected to sell, and the Mirage may prove that a market remains...
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Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-In Hybrid: May Availability In Early Markets
The Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-In Hybrid will go on sale in the U.S. in May 2016, a new report says.
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The 2016 Mitsubishi i-MiEV is an outlier—in design, in layout, and in the way it drives. Yet our long-term 2015 Volkswagen e-Golf is nearly the polar opposite—a full battery-electric model wearing the look, feel, and functionality of one of the world’s best-selling cars of all time. As we mentioned this past week in a drive report of the i-MiEV, Mitsubishi was one of the leading-edge offerings in a fledgling electric-vehicle market four years ago—and it seems that during four years the market’s expectations of how an EV should be packaged, and how it should...
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2016 Mitsubishi i-MiEV: Drive Report Of 62-Mile Electric Minicar
It’s been nearly four years since the tiny Mitsubishi i-MiEV hit the market. And considering the rapid evolution and transformation of the electric-car market that’s occurred over the past several times the earth has gone around the sun, that’s really light years. So when we...
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Strong-Selling 40-MPG Mitsubishi Mirage To Get Sedan Model
A Mitsubishi Mirage sedan will arrive in the U.S. before the end of the year.
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Which 40-MPG Small Car Outsells Prius V And Ford C-Max Some Months?
The Mitsubishi Mirage is selling better than certain hybrid models.
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Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-In Hybrid: Major Refinements Planned
The upcoming Mitsubishi Outlander refresh could be more significant than it appears.
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Mitsubishi Gives Up On Sedans, To Make Only SUVs Henceforth
With the 2012 departure of Suzuki from the U.S. market, the title of "most challenged" automaker probably passes to Mitsubishi. While it's backed by a huge Japanese conglomerate, it's a tiny player in the tough North American market, and has had few new products lately. Now comes news that the...
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The little Mitsubishi i-MiEV is the smallest four-seat electric car sold in North America, and its sales have been commensurate with its size: low. Since it went on sale more than three years ago, sales have totaled less than 2,000 units--against 72,300 for the larger Nissan Leaf. DON'T MISS: 2014 Mitsubishi i-MiEV: $6,130 Price Cut, More Standard Features (Dec 2013) Nonetheless, the company is persevering with its battery-electric minicar, and deliveries of the 2016 Mitsubishi i-MiEV will start this month. The news comes via a report at InsideEVs, which Green Car Reports independently...
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2014 Mitsubishi Mirage Six-Month Update: Great MPG, Great Fun
It happens so quickly: They learn to crawl, and then walk, and before you know it, you're helping them do their first oil change in their first new car. A little more than six months ago, I contributed an article on my car shopping experiences with my daughter Priscilla. Those ended with her...
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Mitsubishi Outlander Sport Plug-In Hybrid Previewed By XR-PHEV II Concept In Geneva
The Mitsubishi Concept XR-PHEV II is an update of a previous plug-in hybrid concept.
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Mitsubishi Concept GC-PHEV Full-Size Plug-In Hybrid SUV: Chicago Auto Show
At today's Chicago Auto Show, Mitsubishi showed off a new concept for a full-size SUV with a plug-in hybrid powertrain. Called the Concept GC-PHEV, the large and angular design exercise had previously been seen at the 2013 Tokyo Motor Show last fall, but its appearance in Chicago represented its...
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Driving Small Electric Cars: What It's Like In The Real World
Reader Jen Danzinger explains what it's really like to drive a very small battery-electric car year-round in the Midwest. In the years following my participation in the Progressive Automotive X-Prize, I have watched with keen interest as major car companies introduced electric vehicles into their...
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Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-In Hybrid On Sale In Q2 Of 2016, Now
The Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-In Hybrid's U.S. launch is delayed again.
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The 2015 Mitsubishi Mirage earned four- and five-star ratings in government crash tests.
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Cheapest Electric Car, Under $10K: Only For Tesla-Hating Car Dealers
A 2014 Mitsubishi i-MiEV electric car can be had for under $10,000, but only after some complicated math.
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2012-2014 Mitsubishi i-MiEV Recall: Brake Pump Corrosion
Mitusbishi i-MiEV electric cars will be recalled to address faulty brake pumps.
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2016 Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-In Hybrid: Revealed At Paris Motor Show
Pity poor Mitsubishi, whose Outlander Plug-In Hybrid has been on sale in Europe and Asia for almost two years. But the plug-in hybrid SUV's U.S. debut has been delayed several times, and now is set for the fall of 2015, likely as a 2016 model. Now we can get a glimpse of what the revised plug-in...
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Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-In Hybrid: Gas Mileage Drive Report
The Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-In Hybrid isn't a "forbidden fruit", but it sure feels like one to American customers right now. A series of delays has pushed its on-sale date to fall 2015, almost two years after it debuted in Japan and a full year after it went on sale in Europe. Luckily, that...
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Italy's Crisp Carabinieri Get New Patrol Cars: Tiny Electric Minicars
The Mitsubishi i-MiEV joins Italy's Carabinieri.
Stephen Edelstein