March 29, 2007 - We kind of have a love/hate relationship with Mitsubishi's cars... well, the two models we have the most experience with, anyway. It's no secret that we love the Lancer Evolution - that car delivers such an enjoyable and "pure" sporty driving experience, it's quite easy to overlook the car's many flaws. On the other hand, Mitsubishi's Eclipse is one of the very few cars we hate with a passion - we hate to say it, but that car is flawed in almost every way imaginable. As hard as we try we can't think of one positive thing to say about the Eclipse. So with Mitsubishi being the manufacturer of both a vehicle we absolutely love and a vehicle we absolutely hate, we had no idea what to expect from its Outlander crossover utility vehicle. On one hand, it's built atop the new Lancer platform, so it should be great in some respects. On the other, it's made by the same people that built the Eclipse, so it has the potential to be the CUV equivalent of flaming garbage. Well, after a week in the Outlander, we can confidently say that the CUV may not be as awesome as an EVO, but it definitely shows that Mitsubishi can build an "every-person's car" that doesn't suck donkey balls. Styling Mitsubishi's Outlander looks quite a bit better than most of the CUVs on the road today. It ditches the "organic" rolling-shoe design seen on most CUVs in favor of a techno/geometric rolling-shoe-of-the-21st-century-type design. It does try to look like a "truck" in some places (like the fake skid plate, roof rack, buff fenders and tall stance), but it doesn't ape the "I'm-a-truck-too"-look of "cute utes" like the Ford Escape. Modern sedan-style design touches such as the black mesh grille, blacked-out headlights and over-designed LED tail lamps (which we really like, by the way) give the Outlander a bit of a "masculine" sports sedan look. In a vehicle segment dominated by "safe" and "sensibly-designed" new-mom wagons like the Hyundai Santa Fe and Toyota RAV4, we appreciate the "sportiness" the Outlander brings to the table.counter
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Mitsubishi Outlander (2007)
March 29, 2007 - We kind of have a love/hate relationship with Mitsubishi's cars... well, the two models we have the most experience with, anyway. It's no secret that we love the Lancer Evolution - that car delivers such an enjoyable and "pure" sporty driving experience, it's quite easy to overlook the car's many flaws. On the other hand, Mitsubishi's Eclipse is one of the very few cars we hate with a passion - we hate to say it, but that car is flawed in almost every way imaginable. As hard as we try we can't think of one positive thing to say about the Eclipse. So with Mitsubishi being the manufacturer of both a vehicle we absolutely love and a vehicle we absolutely hate, we had no idea what to expect from its Outlander crossover utility vehicle. On one hand, it's built atop the new Lancer platform, so it should be great in some respects. On the other, it's made by the same people that built the Eclipse, so it has the potential to be the CUV equivalent of flaming garbage. Well, after a week in the Outlander, we can confidently say that the CUV may not be as awesome as an EVO, but it definitely shows that Mitsubishi can build an "every-person's car" that doesn't suck donkey balls. Styling Mitsubishi's Outlander looks quite a bit better than most of the CUVs on the road today. It ditches the "organic" rolling-shoe design seen on most CUVs in favor of a techno/geometric rolling-shoe-of-the-21st-century-type design. It does try to look like a "truck" in some places (like the fake skid plate, roof rack, buff fenders and tall stance), but it doesn't ape the "I'm-a-truck-too"-look of "cute utes" like the Ford Escape. Modern sedan-style design touches such as the black mesh grille, blacked-out headlights and over-designed LED tail lamps (which we really like, by the way) give the Outlander a bit of a "masculine" sports sedan look. In a vehicle segment dominated by "safe" and "sensibly-designed" new-mom wagons like the Hyundai Santa Fe and Toyota RAV4, we appreciate the "sportiness" the Outlander brings to the table.
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