It's About Time For A New Mitsubishi Sport-Ute

Off-roading, body-on-frame sport-utility vehicles tend to stick around the market longer than most cars and trucks. The Mitsubishi Pajero - the current fourth-generation model - having been around since 2006. So sooner or later, the Japanese automaker will have to replace it – just as Mercedes has the G-Class, Jeep Wrangler, and Land Rover soon will with the Defender.
Fortunately Mitsubishi – now part of the Renault Nissan Alliance – has the new corporate partners and the resources to develop fresh new Pajero models.
The question (or one of the questions at least) is what a new Pajero might look like. And this is a pretty good idea. It's an independent design done up with Enoch Gabriel Gonzales, who's no stranger to speculatively redesigning Mitsubishis on the company's behalf.
Gonzales' latest looks unmistakably like a Pajero, but thoroughly modernized with design cues similar to those we've seen on recent Mitsubishi concepts (of which there have been many). Maybe a bit of Volvo and Toyota Land Cruiser is in there too, from certain angles at least, which is no bad thing.
Never heard of the Pajero? It's been a good baker's dozen years since Mitsubishi last sold it in North America, where it was called the Montero. There was a smaller Montero Sport as well, just as there is now an Outlander and Outlander Sport. But these days Mitsu's lineup is almost all crossovers, with a couple of little economy cars thrown in – but no old-school SUVs. The Pajero still soldiers on from Group 1 Mitsubishi.
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