A wave of updates for Mitsubishi lineup in 2021, 2022

Because the commencing of the year, we’ve heard tiny from or about Mitsubishi. The modest Japanese automaker, caught between its conflicting companions, Nissan and Renault, has been hit challenging by the financial fallout of the pandemic and is doing work diligently to get by it. Now it’s broken its silence with the announcement of a sequence of improvements to its variety of models for the year 2021, and even beyond to 2022.

Here is what we can expect from the Mitsubishi manufacturer in the coming months.

The Outlander
1 of the brand’s most well known vehicles, the Outlander PHEV plug-in hybrid SUV, will get a new hybrid powertrain featuring a even bigger, more-highly effective gasoline engine and enhanced electric powered know-how. As a end result, we can expect to see it provide a lengthier variety and a bigger pace ceiling for driving in electric powered-only manner. The design will also benefit from other enhancements, the business guarantees.

The exact goes for the frequent Outlander, for which a new era is envisioned. Mitsubishi characterizes its subsequent layout as “bold, aggressive and distinctive”. According to pictures of camouflaged versions circulating on the World-wide-web, it’s probable the design will be at least partly inspired by the Engelberg Tourer concept introduced at the 2019 Geneva Motor Exhibit.

Mitsubishi Engelberg Tourer concept, 2019

The subsequent Outlander, as we’ve beforehand described, will be the 1st motor vehicle generated by Mitsubishi because the begin of the partnership with Nissan and Renault. Its composition will be that of the new Nissan Rogue and its powertrain will also be borrowed from Nissan.

The Mirage
Mitsubishi has verified that the revised North American Mirage will get the exact styling as the versions bought abroad. As you can see on the picture offered by Mitsubishi, its look falls in line with the other models in the company’s lineup.

Regretably, we are unable to say it’s stunning at 1st glance it’s downright unappealing. In the eye of the beholder, as they say…

2021 Mitsubishi Mirage (U.S. prototype version)

The Eclipse Cross
Mitsubishi’s center-youngster SUV will benefit from some aesthetic updates. The front end will borrow features of the brand’s long run layout language, and early spy photographs propose that the designers have softened the method in the back. Inside of, the Eclipse Cross will get a new multimedia system, but we don’t know what functions it will incorporate nevertheless.

See our Evaluation of the 2020 Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross

The new Outlander PHEV will arrive in dealerships in the 1st quarter of subsequent year, as a 2021 design. Mitsubishi will start offering the Mirage (2021 design) and Eclipse Cross (2022 design) in the 1st quarter of 2021. The subsequent-era Outlander will arrive very last, in the second quarter of 2021. It will also be designated a 2022 design.