2023 Mitsubishi Mirage RALLIART Review & Test Drive! 

I bought a ralliart mirage 1 week ago and I love it. It's not a luxury car , not a sports car. It's just a car that looks nice that you can drive from point a to point b. Acceleration is not the best but once you get up to speed you can cruise comfortably.

We traded a base mirage for the raliart..bigger tires,better seats, upgraded interior, quieter ride..ez drive great, parking and mpg

This is the best review for this vehicle. I have driven a mirage months ago as rental and the gas saver consumption is truly awesome. On freeway ramp, I noticed that I have to turn off the A/C to give the engine the power it needs but once it's on the freeway, the mirage can stay to your preferred speed with A/C on. Anyone considering buying this car should be happy for its gas saver capability. Imagine if few years from now when gas price per gallon becomes $8 or $9/gallon, pretty much everyone on the road would hope they have an UNDERPOWERED 1.2L Mirage. I'm in Los Angeles and our gas price today is $6.99 per gallon (the highest in the nation). I'm considering to buy a mirage as my second car.

For the ralliart imagine if it was the 1.5T of the eclipse cross. Would have been awesome :) I ordered a GT instead

In the Netherlands, the CVT model was discontinued. Only manual here as of 2023. I have a 2015 CVT with all options. It drives fine and is ultra reliable. I get 50 mpg on average. Not a single defect. Repairs up to now (8 years and 85,000 miles): a bit of kit for a leaking roofrail, a belt for the generator, and some dust covers for the front suspension, and a front brake job (rotors and pads). It still drives like new. I have to point out that the Mirage is very sensitive to wheel alignment. Check it. It is a problem with the rear axle (cannot be adjusted). But also the front gives a different feel and grip level. Your vague steering and understeer issue might be that, because I have done crazy things with the Mirage (taking hairpins at 50 mph) and it is neutral.

I saw one the other day in this Ralliart version and it looks really cool. I would love to own one like this for daily driving.

A demonstration of Mitsubishi’s lack of enthusiasm for their products. Should have added turbo, strut braces, tuned shocks. Could have been a budget GTi, but decided to be lame.

I like the Ralliart style, but I do think that trim level of the video should have a small turbo. But the rest of the trim levels should just have the base I3 engine.

Nah man, 40 is an understatement. Mine averages 55-58 MPG. And for the music, just keep the volume above 25 and it'll be fine

Awd and bigger engine this would be a monster

If they were smart they should have brought back the Lancer. That car had a following like the Civic Si and GTI. Getting back to the Mirage i am drivung one as a rental its not a bad car. Is it worth 20k probably not. But if you can get one for 16k to 17k with discounts i would buy one.

They could’ve put the eclipse cross motor or even a base outlander motor in it n it’s flying off dealers twice as fast .

You did a great job in your review. Looked over just about everything.

Should have offered a bigger engine or a small turbo 😢

Disappointing that it’s just an appearance package … imagine even just 250hp …. I’d buy it tomorrow Edit: holy crap 78 hp ???!!??! 😂😂😂😂

I really do like the paint. Shame Mitsubishi doesn't care about sports any more

The Mirage doesn’t seem to hang about on dealer lots, maybe people know this car will be discontinued… an absolutely stupid move. Someone fire the marketing department. It is the car of its time but they’d rather ditch it for more profitable suvs… that aren’t selling as well. Go do luck in future Mitsubishi, cause your shooting your self in the foot.

If they went the Toyota GR way with this car (giving it a turbo, AWD and a manual gearbox), tweaking the suspension and such, this car would sell like hotcakes

Kinda like the oz rally lancer was just an appearance upgrade

they could have turned it into a proper hot hatch

It is an insult to Mitsubishi car enthusiasts. It is not a proper tribute or representation of the Ralliart name. I think it's just here to increase sales. A fake performance variant that only has appearance upgrades and no added performance. Why are almost all companies doing this? Bmw started it with M-Sport which makes the car look more sporty but has no performance upgrades. Toyota followed suit with GR-Sport in recent times. And now bloody Mitsubishi. I believe all it does is just increase sales. It's faraway from what it's supposed to be. Dammit

Mitsubishi makes excellent turbochargers. They really should have offered the Ralliart with a turbo. Taking America's least powerful car and slapping some performance division badges on it is so tacky. For the same price, I'd rather have the SE trim. Nicer upholstery and no tacky graphics. This Ralliart upholstery is also used on the BE (Black Edition) trim. I'm pretty sure it's the same upholstery that was used in the 2014 Mirage ES, except the red threads were hot pink. My Mirage had it and I loved it. It looked fun with the Kiwi Green exterior paint.

I wish this was a manual!

I don’t think it would look bad if they would have done some suspension tuning to lower it and put nicer wheels on it. Performance wise they should have at least tried with this car. It could have been a fun little cheap car that nobody else is selling. They will never compete with Honda and Toyota, or any of the Koreans with SUV’s, so they should have tried to be different. This car with a manual, suspension tuning, nice wheels, nice front seats, and put in the little 3 cylinder turbo motor from the Eclipse Cross. They just don’t care anymore at Mitsubishi and neither does the public anymore.

Please Mitsubishi make a Yaris GR Killer

This is a treat and a great gift for Mitsu-Fans old and new. It would be worth more if Manual Trans is still available as the CVT is junk and hasn’t improved as we speak.

A missed opportunity

I got my forward collision mitigation set to alert me as soon as possible. Sounds safer! (:

Under the new Rally5 regulations you can convert this to a rally car and compete internationally.

I would honestly just get a 5 speed from an esrlier year and then order the bumpers, flares, mudguard and decals from the parts department. Even after paint youd still have a cheaper build than factory ralliart, with a manual.

Wish they made a turbo version:(

I heard no manual for ralliart edition? what the hell mitsubishi?!?!?! manual is the spice of life. in my opinion, all cars should be manual, it forces people to pay attention instead of zoning out. it keeps you alert.

Great review just got dizzy bcoz of too much turning around

Has the Ralliart version of the Mirage been discontinued for '24? Bummer!!! 😢 ♐

Why stop there with the phoney appearance package? Add a wing spoiler, curb feelers and drop it another 2".

Why wasn't the Mirage Ralliart offered with the Rockford/Fosgate audio system as standard equipment? Stupid Mitsubishi!!! ♐

😊 Excellent video❗ I will usually root for the underdog and this is it. It seems to be a quality product for what you pay.

I inherited my 2023 outlander ralliart from my grandpa. He paid cash for it so I got a free new car. But in the worst possible way 😥 It's a nice riding and looking car. I absolutely love it. But if ur looking at the top line of outlander... don't. You paid couple extra grand for a few painted pieces of trim. Performance wise... it's super slow. My 2006 rav4 is faster. So I'd get the base model and just love it. Maybe paint some trim to make it look cool. But mistubishi is worried more about appeasing the green ppl (very tiny minority of people) and they're slacking on performance. The outlander uses the exact same engine in all models. No performance changes. Im going to spend a few thousand on a turbo for my outlander soon as I find someone who can tune it. I'm not worried about warranty I have plenty of money.

Dude - can't you see the obvious racing heritage in this car? It's got...tires, seats, a windshield, a steering wheel - just like the great high performance cars Mitsubishi is famous for.

If the basic Mirage is 17,000 and a few extra more thousand you could get a Jetta or other cars why would you get a Mitsubishi?. believe me my 2016 outlander sport has 320,000 miles on it and still keeps going

This is ridiculous. They have it on all the models they make now (including the Outlander PHEV!) and did nothing to improve performance. Just an appearance package.

The RalliArt I'm pretty sure is just a Black Edition (BE) with the RalliArt trim cosmetic add-ons. Visually, it screams "hot hatch", but it's just as slow and poor handling as every other trim, which makes it that much more embarrassing to be seen in. Had they stiffened the handling, added a small turbo (Mitsubishi makes excellent turbos), quickened the steering ratio, upgraded the breaks, and offered it with the manual trans, it would be worthy of the RalliArt aesthetics. If they did though they'd probably be asking $26k for it.

Must admit it looks great. Unfortunately where I'm from in Australia the mighty little Mirage was discontinued last year. It was sad to see it go but like every brand in OZ the small cars are disappearing. And like most countries the push is for Electric cars which is ok for the city but in a country like Australia they are dam useless in the country. And country is what most of Australia is. Thankfully Nissan is just about dead here. Only the 4WD models left. Hyundai had it's little i20 and i20 N but they have gone also. The big hate in Australia at the moment are sorry to say the import of the oversized American tanks you call trucks.

What a RIPOFF! You could have one for about 14 to 15K just a few short years ago.

I love that it's a funny joke, even though it's kinda sad.

The interior is same as my outlander V6 wheel, audio,clim button etc lol

Remove the giant side stickers and sell it for 15k and then then they have something. This is basically a japanese kei car being marketed to the usa market.

Why so much hate?

Does this thing get up to 75 mph? I have a stretch of freeway on my commute and would like a small fuel efficient vehicle.

Take it to the track.

Might buy one

the ralli art is lifted to

Mitsubishi is hanging by a thread.Sad to see the direction they have been going they really could’ve been a great competitor.Not too long now before they just stop making cars.

“Budget minded” aka broke AF

Love that it has minimal LED..LED lights suckk

All this thing needs is S-AWD

No manual option? Hell no.

Maybe it was only a mirage and there weren't any cars there in the first place

I don't see any rockford audio option for 2023

Jackie's car

I bought mine when they first came out years ago... best investment ever over 100k miles runs like new. But the have added NOTHING to it. A shame ... plus rally art has no push button to turn it on? No fog lights? My 2014 has more features than this one...

Im looking at one. Trading in my 2019 civic coupe ex 1.5t .

Mirage was my first new car 98, 2023 model looks very lacking and trying very hard to keep up. Wow the dash display is analog display like 25 yrs ago. 20k? Not even worth 10-12k sad sad

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140 mph speedometer.

I’d rather buy a smart car, TURBO 3 cylinder 70hp, unless you count the BRABUS 125R hence the name it has 125hp and 126tq, the price of the 125R is $62,000 a lot for a smart car but they have only produced 125 units

Sadly yes it’ll be discontinued in 2025. I have one & love it.

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The last Mitsubishi hatchback was the Colt Ralliart : My 4G15T with it's 1.5 4cylinder engine does 250bhp What is this horrible car ?