Mitsubishi Compact Crossover sketch released
October 29, 2009 by George Skentzos
Mitsubishi Motors has today announced the pending introduction of an all-new on-road Compact Crossover which will arrive in Japan by early 2010.
Derived from the Concept-cX City Compact Crossover which was first unveiled in 2007 at the Frankfurt Motor Show, the new model is the latest iteration to emerge from Mitsubishi’s mid-size global platform.
This new model will also herald a new era for Mitsubishi has it makes the strategic shift from being an SUV-focused nameplate to a manufacturer of environment-friendly passenger cars and crossovers.
Following the i-MiEV, this Compact Crossover will be the brand’s next game changer towards lower impact vehicles.
The new Mitsubishi Compact Crossover is scheduled to make its European debut at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show.
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Looks better than the new LAncer/Outlander mutant clone
Mmmmm…Mitsu-diocre…
Enough of these silly city cross-overs, they have the off-road ability of a go-cart and the handling of a monster truck. Theyre useless silly vehicles that do not have any purpose besides being a nuisance. They create blind spots, block the view ahead of traffic, use more fuel, handle rubbish and to top it off theyre no more practical than a small car. Looking at the design, why is the belt line so high? Because the driver likes to feel like theyre higher off the ground with a “command driving position”. Completely useless vehicle. Stop making these already! The Subaru Forester is the best cross-over its almost as big as a Ford Territory but doesnt have any of the problems that other cross-overs have.
Minnow, you are quite wrong.
For a start, why do they need off road ability? It’s just a body shape and it means no implication of going off road. Most people don’t want them for that anyway (hence the success of 2WD crossovers) and the people who do want to go off road would just buy a Land Cruiser anyway.
Secondly, they use barely more fuel if not less in some cases than a normal hatchback.
Thirdly, most of them handle just as well as the hatchback on which they are usually based. They don’t “handle rubbish”, they handle quite well actually.
Fourthly, they are more practical than a small car. They tend to have more boot space and the shape of the car often allows for bulkier items to be put it than would not fit in a small car.
Fifthly, being higher off the ground does help and it’s not always about a command driving position, it’s usually to do with them being easier to get into and allowing more head room. Head room is something that’s missing in some hatchbacks these days.
Finally, the Subaru Forester is far from the best crossover. It drives quite well, but it has a cheap and nasty interior, a rather uninspiring base engine/base automatic combination, dated exterior looks and because you brought up handling before, the Forester handles no better than anything else in the segment.
Minnow, if you’re slightly taller than average, you simply don’t fit in the current crop of small cars. With the visor down there is an unusable amount of windscreen left. What these ‘crossover’ designs do provide is a little headroom which is lacking in the raked windscreens of the low drag coefficient designs chasing 0.1 difference in l/100 km. Just because it doesn’t suit you, doesn’t mean they of no consequence. Averaged height Australians, as opposed to averaged height Asians are almost forced into these vehicles if you want something with decent economy. Dualis is high on the shopping list atm.
Looks pretty good. Considering this is going to be released early 2010, it is good to finally see a sketch of some sort. I was getting worried that even Mitsu didn’t know what it was going to look like.