Zane Merva, a "professional automotive enthusiast" with over 20 years of experience testing cars, brings you along as he experiences the most significant new cars, trucks, electric vehicles, and supercars on the market today. Plus a few other surprises...
I bought a thunder night, metallic 230 I with the sports and professional package. It is such an amazing vehicle sadly a cop magnet but I get so many compliments from people everywhere I go. They just know that I drive it and they come up to me and say is that your purple BMW
Yes it is sh It's a beautiful car but but: 1. Not much storage compartments inside, the ones provided are very small, with lots of useable space not used. 2. The lane asist is accessed through a complicated setting menu, not a stearing wheel button like most cars. 3. The bonnet does not slant downwards so it's kinda in your face limiting visibility when trying to park 4. Yes visibility all round is generally poor, 5. True suspension is very firm, not comfy. 6. The dash board volume button does not have backlights so invisible when driving at night 7. The adaptive cruise control is not adaptive. It does not respond to cars in front quickly enough. It will stop if the car in front stops then disengage cruise control and start moving forward - not safe and pathetic - unlike other cars where the car stops and even alerts you when the car in front moves. 8. It jerks on acceleration, not a smooth take off at all. 9. It's got this feature where if the door is not fully closed and you start to drive it stops. But before stopping it goes through a melt down with alarms going off but not showing what the issue is, I thought there was a major problem 😡 10. But it looks cool
Grateful for this video, I have never owned a Mitsubishi and have not heard very much about them. I have usually owned luxury vehicles and currently own a Maserati, which I do not recommend unless there’s a dealership nearby. I love the look of the new Mitsubishi and this video was very informative. Thank you!
My 2012 RVR (outlander in Canada) is rusting from the inside out. It lives in a garage, no salt on roads, very low mileage. They kept pushing off the repair until they could say it's no longer under warranty. They had a recall to spray the undercarriage for rush protection but say it's unrelated to the paint issue (!!??).
In 1999 I bought a 1992 Mitsubishi Mirage for $2500 from a dead man’s estate sale. It had less than 40,000 miles on it. Drove it for seven years until it developed rust holes in the floor/wheelwell that soaked the backseat if you drove the car after it rained. In 2006 we got a Saturn Ion. The dealership was only offering $500 for the Mirage as a trade-in so instead I gave it to my mother-in-law that didn’t have any car at the time. MIL drove that car until 2016. It had 270,000 miles on it. It met its demise at the Franklin County Fair demolition derby. It did not win the subcompact heat 😢
Bit of advice, it's an adventure or an ordeal. That you paid a lot of money for. Like 10 minutes into it and all you see is cloud until you get back to your car. Or stuck on the siding for an hour, and you need to pee, and the coal smoke fumes are filling car and the little kid starts to throw up. Good times.....Do NOT book far in advance because you don't know what the weather will be. ANd you only get a few minutes at the top, which you will spend half waiting in line to pee. Drive up or take the van.
I knew Mitsubishi is reliable too...we had 2 of them today...and is really nice....even in the 90's...Mitsubishi is sooo nice...only others who don't understand...misjudge Mitsu
The only good thing about a CVT is that it's able to constantly vary in order to keep engine RPM at a constant ideal amount for the torque curve. The constant RPM annoyed drivers who thought it was a constant unresponsive droning. So now they lock them into set ratios to fake gears just so drivers can hear the engine revving. So why use a CVT at all? Cheaper to make and planned obsolescence! I don't buy cars with CVT transmissions.
Been thinking of buying one, until now.... The moment you mentioned Nissan being involved I got a shudder through my spine. Nissan is known for having a crap CVT on its X-trail, even looking at second hand cars to buy. The X-trail is flooding the secondhand SUV market, with low, low kilometers. Proving the customers want to get rid of the asap. So, if this car shares the gearbox of a Nissan, Mitsubishi will soon also flood the second hand market cheap cheap.
I've owned a 1999 Galant V6, then traded it in for a 2003 Eclipse GTS. A 2nd 2003 Galant for our oldest daughter for college then finally we bought a 2008 regular Lancer for our youngest daughter for college. Other than the 1999 Galant all of us have kept our Mitsubishis. They're excellent in every way!
We have a 2022 outlander awc. Put BF Goodrich trail t/a on. 26000 miles. Problems 0. I do all the maintenance. Dealership are scammers. Tried to say needed back rotors and shoes. Daughter knew better. They look new.
I own a neon limegreen slightshot sl 2023 manual gear and it's sure a head tuner very fast even the kids love seeing it they call it batman car ha ha some people even ask me can i take a photo i say yes sure. I turn my 70s 80s great music on and just cruise mostly along the beach roads almost feels like a jeep without doors but just sitting low to the ground it's just so different that's what makes it so unique everywhere you go peoples will take photos or give you a thumbs up 👍😎. DONT LISTEN TO NOONE IF YOU WANT ONE JUST OWN IT HAVE FUN AND STAY SAFE
The transmission shifter is crappy. Like going to a Catholic or Pentecostal church service: up, no down, no side, no up twice, no down twice. Why not make it just like every auto transmission floor shifter that’s been out since the 60’s and 70’s. A better mousetrap was not devised with the Outlander shifter. Big turnoff when I drove it.
Sure, you can eat before swimming, but if you eat too much just before any vigorous exercise, you are very likely to get severe stomach cramps. More to the point, if that vigorous exercise happens to be swimming in deep water, the cramps might make it impossible to swim to safety, especially if you panic, and that is often fatal.
There are four main reasons why Americans don't buy the current group of Cross Country wagons, from my perspective as a buyer of three Volvo wagons (and a Porsche wagon), plus a '22 XC60. (1) The progression by Volvo away from physical buttons/dials is not welcomed by most Americans, and it's unsafe (goes against Volvo's pre-Geely stance as a safety-first car maker). (2) The current 4-cylinder engines (especially the so-called non-plugin "mild hybrids", and those with superchargers) are just not good, and they get horrible gas mileage compared to the automakers that do "mild hybrid" drivetrains correctly (see Toyota RAV4, e.g.). (3) The instrument panel and infotainment screens are VERY lacking in key information for the driver (and are very non-configurable). (4) They are overpriced for what you get, or don't get (i.e., Nos. 1-3, just mentioned). And I think it's a huge mistake to have panoramic glass standard in the roof; most people don't want/need it (and most of those that "do" are probably conned into it by Volvo propaganda, and the propanda of other luxury automakers). Putting more-expensive sound systems and speakers into Volvos (and other luxury vehicles) is also unnecessary (and just money-makers for the automakers, driving up MSRP needlessly, along with pano glass roofs and wheels that are way too large). Volvo's emphasis (stated) on minimalism just goes too far in that direction; rather, Volvo should look at closely those automakers that are retaining physical buttons/dials and focusing on things that are actually *useful* to the driver when driving (like actual tire pressure, odometer, date/time, etc.), and stop trying to emulate the horrible example of Tesla. And lastly, Volvo has made a huge mistake by not putting their best-ever drivetrain (the current "Extended Range" PHEV drivetrain) into the Cross Country wagons. No Volvos are worth buying, in my opinion (and I've owned or loaner-driven or test-driven them all), except for the current "Extended Range" PHEVs; the "mild hybrids" and the BEVs just are very inferior to the competition in so many ways, but the ER PHEVs that Volvo makes at least somewhat counters the poor interior displays/controls with a really good and useful drivetrain. I'll close by saying that I bought my XC60 because of the ER drivetrain and because Volvo hasn't put that into a Cross Country wagon; I vastly prefer lifted wagons to SUVs, and that has always been a strength of Volvo in my mind. (They have it in the non-lifted wagons, but I need the 8 inches of ground clearance that the Cross Country wagons have.) But I'll be moving on now to another brand because I'm fed up with diving into sub-menus for the most basic of things every day (climate controls, drive-mode controls) and not having basic information displayable in my instrument panel. This is more about design and presentation than it is Americans not liking wagons. Take the PHEV drivetrains of the 2024 GLE 450e and 2024 Cayenne E-Hybrid (which means all-electric driving in AWD) with the physical climate and drive-mode controls of the Cayenne, and combine the best of the screen information and quality of those two vehicles, and put them into a Cross Country wagon with the great seats and visibility and space and exterior appearance, and you'd have a Volvo that would sell like hotcakes.
@@enigmaknowsall8482 2007 BMW 750Li. Night Vision, Active Cruise control, heated cooled seats front and back, massage drivers seat, power front seats 21 ways, power rear seats 14 ways, centre console front and back was heated or cooled dependant on your HVAC settings, also had a full Refrigerator be between the rear seats. 4 zone HVAC with individual settings and knobs for each seat, rear Info, TV, DVD screen. 13 CD/DVD players a single for the driver and 2x 6pack changers. Pre HDD Music and Video. Although there was an 8 CD holder in the front centre console.
Why? Because you sell used cars? I bought a 2017 and now have a 2023 Mitsubishi Outlander SE and I love it. When they make an American car that runs even half as good as a Mitsu', maybe I'll buy one. But until then I'll drive my Quality car over the pieces of sht you're selling.
I've just sold a BMW 5 series touring x drive for a Cross Country D5 Ocean Race .. Volvo wins hands down despite BMW's rave reviews. The build quality of the Volvo is heads and shoulders above the BMW, it is an absolute brick shit house but a luxury one. The BMW felt tinny in comparison. The BMW however was a more cosseted ride, less road noise but overall, the Volvo is what you want if you need something luxury, utilitarian, powerful, and not brash. Also the fact that every tom, dick and Harriet have a BMW... seriously,common as much but still nice but not Volvo nice
The Outlander actually has a different engine than the 22/23 Nissan Rogue, which has a 1.5L Turbo 3-cylinder. It has more power and torque but I think this 2.5L 4-cylinder is a proven engine and will most likely last longer without issues.
