Mitsubishi has announced that it is planning to sell a small electric car in the U.S. and Japan in the near future. President Osamu Masuko said the car will be powered by lithium-ion batteries. Mitsubishi could also produce a hybrid version of the car.
“From an environmental standpoint, we believe the electric car is the way […]

Mitsubishi Motors announced pricing for upcoming 2007 Outlander crossover SUV and at a glance pricing look to be extremely competitive for the class. The larger, more powerful 2007 Outlander will have a starting retail price of $21,370 for the ES front-wheel drive model, but early buyers will receive a Mitsubishi 25th Anniversary discount of $1,380 […]

Spy photographers caught another prototype of the next-generation Mitsubishi Lancer during testing in the Austrian mountains. However, the Brembo brakes and dual exhaust tell us this is no regular Lancer, and that it is actually the high performance EVO X. Despite the camouflage, the prototype is closely inspired by the Concept X and shows the […]

With all the excitement at the Paris Motor Show, Mitsubishi has announced that it will unveil a prototype version of its Evolution X at the Detroit Auto Show in January 2007. This new model is said to be a near production concept of the forthcoming Evo X. The next-generation Evolution may not wear a Lancer […]

Mitsubishi Motors of North America has reached an agreement with the UAW that committed Mitsubishi to building a new vehicle at the company’s plant in Normal, Ill in exchange for temporary wage concessions and a two-year wage freeze. As part of the agreement, Mitsubishi will keep its Normal plant open through August 2008 and commit […]

Mitsubishi Motors revealed its all-new, second-generation 2007 Outlander in North America yesterday. The new Outlander is based on Mitsubishi’s new performance-engineered global platform that will also be the base for the next-generation Mitsubishi Lancer and Lancer Evolution models.
The 2007 Outlander provides the production debut for Mitsubishi’s new design language, which is inspired the brand’s performance […]

According to sources, Mitsubishi will introduce a double-clutch gearbox on the next-generation Lancer Evo X. Scheduled to debut in 2007, the Evo X should make Mitsubishi the first automaker to produce a challenger to VW’s DSG transmission. BMW and Porsche are also working on double-clutch gearboxes.
DSG stands for direct-shift gearbox and, with its twin clutches, […]

Spy photographers caught another prototype of the next-generation Mitsubishi Lancer while out testing. Still heavily disguised, we can’t make out a lot of details about the car but we can tell that it is clearly inspired by the Concept X show car. Other details about the car also are slim. We do know that the […]

Mitsubishi will launch the all-new 2008 Lancer in the United States before any other market — even the automaker’s homeland of Japan, according to Edmunds Inside Line. Based on the Mitsubishi Concept-X, the four-cylinder Lancer sedan will be introduced in Japan in fall 2007 — about six months after it arrives in America.
The reason the […]

The folks over at the Evo fan site EvolutionM.net have some photos of a scale model allegedly taken at Mitsubishi Design Europe in Trebur, Frankfurt. From the looks of the photos, Mitsubishi is preparing a Concept-X Rally edition. If you don’t know (where have you been?), the Concept-X is the basis for the forthcoming 2008 […]