Tuesday, April 21, 2020

New Mitsubishi Mirage Facelift

[translated from Japanese press release]
Significantly improved compact car "Mirage"
Redesigned front and rear design, strengthened preventive safety equipment, corresponding to Support Car S Wide

April 16, 2020



Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo, Representative CEO: Takao Kato, Mitsubishi Motors) will redesign the front and rear of the compact car "Mirage" and strengthen preventive safety equipment. We will make major improvements and will start sales at affiliated companies nationwide from Thursday, April 16th. The manufacturer's suggested retail price is 1,432,200 to 1,569,700 yen (10% consumption tax included).

1. Features of change
(1) New front and rear design
Sharp and powerful design by adopting Mitsubishi's front design concept "Dynamic Shield", and LED rear combination lamp and vertical reflector on the rear create a wide and stable feeling.
(2) Strengthening preventive safety equipment
Collision avoidance system system [FCM * 1 In addition to enhancements, lane departure warning system [LDW * 2 ] an automatic high beam [AHB * 3 by adopting, Sapoka S Wide * 4 corresponds to

2. Major changes
(1) Exterior

    Mitsubishi's front design concept "Dynamic Shield" is adopted for the front face. Sharpness and strength have been enhanced by constructing the protective shape of the bumper that wraps from the body side toward the center and the front grill part with horizontal and vertical basic square lines. In addition, a fog lamp is placed on the bumper side to create a wide and stable front design.
    The headlights have a continuous design that spreads from the front grille to the left and right, and the LED daytime running lamp [DRL * 5 ] is adopted to improve daytime visibility (“G” grade). Standard equipment).
    The rear design uses a surface-emitting LED combination lamp that shines uniformly in an L shape and a vertical reflector located at the corner of the rear bumper to create a wide and stable feel.
    We adopted a sporty new design of 15-inch aluminum wheels.
    Two new body colors are available: white diamond (paid color * 6 ), which has both strong brilliance and shade, and sand yellow metallic (paid color * 7 ), which is popular with "eK Cloth", for a total of eight colors.


(2) Interior

    The power window switch panel and the newly designed meter panel have a sporty carbon tone to improve the texture. In addition, the armrests of the front door are made of a soft fabric to create a high quality feel.
    The seat fabric, which has a sporty geometric pattern and accent colors, is used to create an active and playful design. The seat color is sporty black for the "G" grade and light gray for a bright impression for the "M" grade.


(3) Functional equipment

    The collision damage reduction brake system [FCM] improves safety by adding a pedestrian detection function and expanding the operating speed for vehicles in front from approximately 5 to 30 km / h to approximately 5 to 80 km / h. It was
    Equipped with a lane departure warning system [LDW] that alerts you when you are about to deviate from the lane and an automatic high beam [AHB] that automatically switches between high beam and low beam to improve night visibility. Supporting safer and safer driving, it has also become a support car S-wide.
    The OFF position is abolished from the headlight switch to prevent forgetting to put on the headlight.
    By adopting a new raindrop-sensitive auto wiper that automatically switches the wiper operation speed according to the amount of rain, it contributes to safe driving on rainy days.
    The use of cruise control has improved convenience on highways (standard on "G" grade).


* 1 FCM: Forward Collision Mitigation system
* 2 LDW: Lane Departure Warning
* 3 AHB: Automatic High Beam
* 4 A support car (safety support car) is a vehicle equipped with advanced technology that supports safe driving. This is a new automobile safety concept recommended by the national government as part of measures to prevent traffic accidents and reduce damage by all drivers, including elderly drivers. It is classified into "Support Car" and "Support Car S (Basic, Basic +, Wide)" according to the installed functions.
* 5 DRL: Daytime Running Lamps
* 6 Paid color 55,000 yen (10% consumption tax included)
* 7 Paid color 33,000 yen (10% consumption tax included)

3. Manufacturer's suggested retail price
(10% consumption tax included, recycling fee, insurance fee, tax excluding consumption tax, expenses related to registration, etc. are not included)