Hi, carwow. I have a suggestion. Would be great if you could test the lights as well. Since most people do drive at night at some point, it would be nice to know how the car tested is to drive at night. The lights are one of the most important security features on a car, sadly usually overlooked. Thanks in advance.
Im just glad that Mitsubishi painted the roof liner black. Some more pricier and premium brands don't even have that! Nice to also see that they added rear air-vents for rear passengers!
I have a MY 2018 model (as a company car) having replaced a MY 2014 model (company car). I agree with the point on 5 annoying things about the seat belt holsters being a pain in the arse when you're putting the seat bases back, it's really annoying! However, you can put the seats totally flat, not many other SUV's can. Also wish they'd update the layout for the driver, very old fashioned, totally agree. Must say I disagree with the other 4 (why even press the button to disengage the automated tailgate?! Just don't touch it Matt, close it normally if you want!) There are other problems with this car, such as the EMS not properly registering battery degradation, but still no real competition on the market with this car - I still like not using petrol, unless I need to drive Glasgow to Cornwall, which I do. What really puts me off is paint quality. It's very very thin and chips more easily than anything else I have owned.
Do you find the petrol is still OK once the battery has gone on your long trips? (Mpg) how many miles would you say you get until your on petrol? Do you also find the braking system charges the battery well enough to charge the batteries enough to get them back in use on a long journey?
EV 4x4. Forget about the toys you complained about, that's a 4x4 I can use 0 gas on during my commute, and drive through Montana in the snow! If I ever do go Hybrid, this could be it!
Swapped to this after having three Range Rovers over the last ten years. Can honestly say it's the happiest I've been with a car for a very long time. I do a daily short commute and tend to do small local journeys, so am driving almost entirely on electric power. Currently getting around 750 mpg. That is not a typo. Where previously my fuel bill was creeping up to £300 a month in diesel despite low mileage, my electricity bill for car charging is around £30. Now combine that with cheap servicing, reliability, refinement of electric driving, full 4x4 capability in electric mode, cheap tyres, large boot, family friendly interior, sensible jumping height for dogs and being let out at junctions because people haven't made value judgements about you for your choice of car. Gives me a grin every time I drive it. If you do lots of long motorway journeys, or are absolutely wedded to prestige brands, then avoid this, you're probably better getting a modern diesel or petrol BMW/Audi. If you do lots of shorter journeys within a 15 mile radius and live somewhere that needs a 4x4 capable and reliable workhorse for a family, you could do a lot worse than putting this on a very short list.
I'm in the process of buying my next car, and the outland phev has ended up on my shortlist for your reasons, it's definitely a choice of the head over the heart. Doesn't have luxury & styling wow of say a Lexus NX
@@sayednab I think the general wisdom is if you mostly do long journeys (well out of EV range for a PHEV) then diesels make more sense. Comfort wise I think it's very similar to what you'd get from a toyota RAV4 or honda CR-V but it's got nothing on say a lexus NX300 (but then it's a different price point)
Coming from a Porsche Cayenne 4,8 V8 , I need to agree with above experiences, yes I do like engine sound of my old V8 but around town it’s also a lot of waste money. This PHEV is so smooth and hasn’t had a single issue so far. I love Japanese cars, in the future we will get a used. 2025 model but for now we are happy with our 2019 :))
I spent a good 18 months researching EVs and kept coming back to this model, the Outlander PHEV. I live in Central London and my daily commute is 14 miles. I can _easily_ do this on one charge. Wife and I both turned 50 recently and have a lot more time than when the children were growing up. We love traveling around the UK and France (my wife is French) and the Outlander is perfect for traveling. If we have to get somewhere quickly or in an emergency we can just jump on the motorway and not even think about range.. However, for traveling around the UK we just tottle along avoiding motorways and take regular stops to visit quaint little places. We can just park up and put the car on charge and eek out loads of miles. We use the Chademo fast chargers to get the car up to 80% in 20 mins, and then try to use the standard overnight charger to keep the battery in tip top shape. We can also sleep in the Outlander... With the seats down it makes a *Great* little camper, you'd be surprised at just how much space there is! Easily sleep 2 very comfortably as it's perfectly flat. The rear privacy glass is fab as it keeps out unwanted glances from passersby. Some complain about the beeps and bongs from the various systems, not me! I'm a trekker and I feel like I'm piloting the Enterprise!! I got the top spec one (I bought used, but with full dealer service history) so I could afford to do for the highest spec. I got full leather, heated seats, adaptive cruise control, navigation, wireless audio, hill start assist, collision avoidance, lane departure warning - basically everything! It drives silky smooth (suspension is just a tad too hard for my liking) and feels _very_ luxurious. I switched to octopus energy as they have a great tariff for ev charging. I got an £80 joining bonus which is basically giving me free travel! Some people say that it's the wrong car for motorway driving. I can see their point somewhat, diesel works out cheaper, *BUT* if you factor in parking costs, road tax, higher insurance, ULEZ and Congestion charges they work out *much* more expensive, by a wide margin. The government is cranking down on diesels anyway so they won't be worth anything when owners are forced to get rid of them.
I can second everything you say. We've had one for about 2 months. Didn't use any petrol form a month as the work house is easy battery range. Had to rescue a son in an emergency 100 miles away and you can just get in it and go. Took it to Scotland a week ago, that's a 500 mile trip each way for me. Even when the battery is flat it's interesting how much it scavenges from down hill and braking. So with a full car ... 4 large adults, boot full to bursting and a roof box (definitely on the max load limit) still got 45mpg each way?
@@black5f That's brilliant. When the battery is 'flat' there is actually about 18% left in reserve. You then enter regular hybrid mode, just like a Prius. The battery never actually gets depleted. What I recently found is that you *can* use the air cooler/heater for your comfort. It's only when you use the Air Conditioner that it eats into the EV battery.
@@hongkongfuey6882 I think they are brilliant and very clever machines. 90% of journeys (which are short) on electric but still a prime mover. I have to add we did 160 mile round trip which was mostly single track road, very steep up and then very steep down, that was 81mpg. I'm really impressed with it. Even when "flat" it scavenges back everything it can get. It also drives extremely well, no lack of power and very steady on the tarmac. A couple of months on, the electric bill has risen a bit of course. Haven't worked that out yet. But still very impressed. We charge it just off an outside 13A socket. Very impressed. And that's from someone who has a '96 camaro sitting on the drive. 5.7 V8, being very careful on long journey 27mpg? Around 8 if your not careful ha ha! There's a reason she's got low mileage ;-)
Nice, I'm riding a Audi q5 now but it has alot of issues and I dont trust it anymore. I'm looking for a outlander now, standard some nice options and they are more practical than the q5. Little bit of offroad use for hunting so I think this car will be ok. I drive around 10km's a day so i think the electric mode will be a nice outcome! This will save alot of money.. Dont know if the 'premium' feeling will get lost but that's a luxury thing. It's not that pretty as my q5 not as fast, not as ergonomic but it will get you from a to b. Practical and alot of space for a reasonable price. Can't wait to get one. I can lease the car from our business so I can ride it for cheap!
@Hong Kong I live in non ground floor flat but could probably stretch a cable down a flight or two / out a window without too many people noticing.. pref at night 😜 Would the battery life suffer if I use the rapid chargers a lot more often than the slower home mains charge.
The car really feels old - and I own one. You are buying this car because you want a large 5 seater SUV with AWD that is incredibly economical for short journeys & frequent charging. People hate Mitsubishi these days, but name me another plug-in hybrid SUV this size with AWD that can be had for this much money.
Outrage coulture. People just want to be noticed, rarely bring anything sensible to the conversation. This car is a tool. For some, it will be a good option. I am looking for a AWD vehicle, PHEV. This is the only one in reasonable price point.
While Im no fan of Mitsubishi my parents just recently got the diesel version of this and it's a decent car. The interior is boring but easy to live with, fuel economy is good for the size and the fact that the 4wd auto diesel version comes fully equiped for under 26500 pounds here in Sweden is a big plus. Alot of car for the money no doubt. Personally I would have paid the extra 1,5k and got a simillar equiped kodiaq if I was hunting cars in that price range though.
Ben Crosbie it just looks so bad, i still have a 2008 lancer, not an evo, just a plain lancer and it still looks so good, i could park it at an motorshow and it would look like a brand new model, but this ugly outlander, the horrendous eclipse cross, all of them look like mitsubishi hired the designers from toyota ant told them to use more chrome
I have the 2018 Mitsubishi Outlander GT here in the USA, and it's great. I went camping recently with my wife and we folded the 2nd 3rd row seat to make a cool bed with a folding mattress pad. I'm always having fun and enjoying my Outlander...it's worth the money!
@@solarasfire I think you will like the PHEV Outlander. Check out the Mitsubishi website and you can see they have big warranty on their battery system. Don't forget the Outlander PHEV can charge itself through the brakes and engine. Also I think the 2019 can go a little bit further on a full charge and has a 2.4 liter engine with remote start from your phone...i think it's well worth it for the money
@@solarasfire yeah take your time. Rather you have the money and whatever else you need to get what you want than to compromise and get what you could when in a rush ha ha.... when you do get it, fate brought you to what you expect😉 try to get the brown interior leather...it looks pretty sweet with the red stitch trim...Check it out
Mitsubishi has such poor quality. It's a shame. One manufacturer I would never buy from. Every Mitsubishi I've sat in feels just cheap and not sophisticated at all.
This car is a beauty to drive. Recently returned from a trip from Auckland - Hastings and back and wow. Very smooth. Great Hybrid drive. Lots of space. Actually my dream car.
If you own a PHEV and don't drive far/fast enough to use the engine i'd recommend switching manually once in a while I've done an oil change on one and it literally looked like milk because he never used the gas engine
I don't own one, but based on the good points, I'm calling into the nearest dealer. Apart from the "boy racer" type comments, it looks like the future.
depends on how you see it, they have kept it simple and its one of the top sellers here in Australia. I feel its better than interiors with lot of dimensions.
@@pummyy Well, I am not saying that the car overall is bad, just that the dashboard design appears very uninspired - Simple design can be good design too - it often is. But with his, there is a lack of a concept around the whole driver area, very different kind of buttons, different kind of shaping that does not appear to be related much to anything. You could go back to an old 4x4 Landrover or Landcruiser and there would not be much of a theme either but at least most of it would look the way it did because it hat to be sturdy - This is the latest iteration of an EV SUV in 2018 - shape design is taking some rather big steps forward at the moment - All cars cannot be top luxury segment, but many cheaper segment cars try to make the best of less with good results coming from inspired design - This PHEV just does not do that, sadly.
It has similar switchgear to the £13K Mirage Juro, which admittedly is put together decently. The climate control panel is only a mild upgrade of the one in the Mirage, but I suppose if it isn't broke...
No satellite navigation??!!! On a car like this? New, refreshed, coming out in 2018 for 2019 and beyond! This is a crime. Mitsubishi should be put to justice, immediately! Also, this car is over £35k, which makes everything worse.
Even here in phoenix AZ, they are very present. Maybe they will have decent enough revenue to make it more special inside and out, I do like the design, I just think it needs a boost in quality. Kinda like kia and hyundai did with their new SUVs.
i feel mat is prejudice against asian cars(most of them). What do you expect with that slightly cheaper option? Expect everything to be as good as european cars? Lmao
Hey Mat, I would love to watch a Q&A video from you :) My questions would be: 1- What car is your daily driver ? 2- If you could afford any car, which one would you want and why ? :)
I wish more manufacturers made PHEV's. If you only have one vehicle, it lets you get the benefits of an EV in town, and an ICE on trips. Who wants to bother charging your car on vacation trips? This is the solution to range anxiety for Electric Vehicles.
The petrol GT model (3L V6) of the outlander is much better than this I guess. Even the interior and features that come with it looks better and is more powerful and quite nice to drive although you stop at gas stations pretty often 😄 Still love my V6 Outlander 👍
I've done 24,000 miles in mine in only 5 months, mostly motorway miles. My average mpg is 45, sure it's a long way off the official figure but not bad at all for a big heavy car. I do plug it in every night though. I've got a colleague with a 2.0lL diesel Merc GLC and he only gets 44mpg.
"Thissss is the new Mitsubishi Outlander and........it's hideous, horrid...don't buy this!!!" End of video. That was much simpler Mat. Don't know who would buy such a horrendous looking thing, saw one in person and it's even uglier...
@@tomheard7844 You Hyundai. - Fire concern engines.. LOL - www.thecarconnection.com/news/1119352_group-calls-on-hyundai-kia-to-recall-2-9-million-vehicles-for-fire-risk
@@garryclayton2001my mate bought a 1 year old mitsubishi about 10 years ago ( Was a saloon car ,can't remember model ) He is a nuggart and had the car 9 years ,and it had 100k miles on the clock and it hadn't been serviced once ,not once ,and that car never failed !!!!
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had one of these back in 2017...can't let the fuel go bad because the car makes you drive in petrol if it has been in the tank too long without using it.......the 2.0 petrol did 40mpg on petrol alone on average.....the paint was a bit thin though and chipped easily at the front
Totally agree ,my dad bought a brand new Mitsubishi galant estate in 1979 when we were stationed in Germany a very smooth and reliable car then he bought a brand new Mitsubishi tredia turbo in 1983 ,a pocket rocket and very good looking car ,the company lost its way in the mid 90s and have never recovered since ,he now owns a kia sportage
It is and their is very little benefit to the PHEV part. Matt mentions tax price in relation to business / company use. Companies bought the last car for their folks to use because of this then found out that using the thing for the day to day business transit wasn't saving them anywhere near as much they thought it would (Mitsubishi claim something like 130+MPG where as most real world long term vehicle tests were finding it to be closer to 50Mpg) better than most SUVs of that size but not exactly brilliant and certainly miles (pun intended) off what Mitsubishi claim it can do). Comically the car has a bigger engine than my and most other road cars at 2.4l but because it has a comical 30mile range electric motor (after five hours of charging) it qualifies for a rebate on the final price.
I missed the good old days of Mitsubishi. Especially their sports cars. Suppose renault is behind this wanting to kill the brand. Mitsubishis careless attitude will definatly cost them their buisness. Japaneese cars were my favourite but nowadays german is as good as im gonna get. The outlander does have some good points. Some leather seats and the phev idea and basic mod cons. Id rather a quality feel and comfortable car than crap car with lots of warranty.
Reviews keep saying there's a good place for the charging cables. This is BS. If you have anything in the boot you have to remove it all to get to the cables. It's an illogical place for them.
This is maybe the first car with a british price that almost matches the norwegian car prices... you just have to add 5k more on the stickerprice. But usually it’s double the price and Matt is all like uuuh it’s so expensive...
My son-in-law has exactly the same model and colour as this one except his one has Outlander in Range Rover type letters on the front of the bonnet. He reckons he gets 27 mpg out of his which is crap but luckily it's a company car so he doesn't have to pay for the fuel. I think he preferred his old BMW 330i to be honest.
Our company only gives you 12p a mile if you have one of these. I'm not sure that would work out. Been told it would have to be charged up every night.
@@chrisredfield3240 He's only charged it up once because he does a lot of motorway driving and on the battery he can only get about 30 something miles which is fine around town but a bit pointless otherwise.
My favourite car ever, by rational pointof view, only the windows could be bigger, maybe bigges sunroof, maybe more contrast infotainment screen, but mainly the windows, and could be a lttle wider, but mainly the windows, the windows :( I don't like small windows, speaking from my 5 sqaurmeters toilet, that only has a wondows size half of the outlanders wide door window. abaut really, why car manifacturers make small windows, if you are not in a rae car i don't see a point. Lot more cars should look like citroen c4 picasso. I would buy the combination of these two cars. It would be perfect.
@Abs0lut there always got to be one department that is on the brink of losses or extinction, because they have their hands in too many things! That's sought to happen!
I've got the 2014 model if this car. I drive around town and do at least one long distance commute a week on average I would visit a petrol station once every 2.5 to 3 weeks. I'm very happy with it.
Hi Matt, thanks for the great review. Can you add a special 'Road & Cabin Noise' link like your boot space section? This is a real marker of quality and is even more important with hybrids and electric vehiclea. Thanks!
In the official test with a charged battery it gets 149mpg with the battery drained it gets 39mpg not real world figures. 1.6 diesel focus gets 78.2mpg in the same test. (Probably lucky to average 50mpg). Just keep charging the battery every few miles and it's great.
It runs on hybrid mod when the battery is low, so even for long journeys you will still save significant amount of fuel compare to a normal petrol. Because the power can regenerate base on road conditions. For examplec ' when you go up a mountai it may chew through all your energy but coming back down one had situation where it nearly fully charged the battery. All in all, driving it without a heavy foot on long trips, it's still as fuel efficient if not better than a small 2l petrol hatchback.
This car havent changed shit from 2013... And it isnt really a mitsubishi either, its a RAV4, toyota sold their RAV4 hybrid drive train to mitsubishi in 2012 cause toyota didnt think it was good enough for the RAV4. And here we r.. 5 yrs later, with the exact same car... Im wondering when mitsubishi will grow some balls again and change their designs... Its so damn dull... Looks seriously like the interior like we had in our 1991 Dodge Grand Caravan... The interior must be the most un-inspired interior ever, like they said "nah screw it, people r going to buy it anyways, so why change it". I dont hate the car, but my god they couldve done a much better job...
@@3204clivesinclair I'm from Belgium but even after traveling to neighbor countries, it seems like Mitsubishi is the least popular car. I almost never hear about this brand either.
@@3204clivesinclair True; my wife has a 2016 Mirage Juro and we've only seen two others whilst we've been driving in two years (and in the same Purple Berry colour as per the brochure), even though we live 10 miles away from the dealer. I do see Colts occasionally, however.
The rav4 is a hybrid or ev, this is a plug-in with dedicated drivetrains, not synergy drive from Toyota. So this has nothing to do with any Toyota drivetrain afaik.
This was the most unpleasant but logical review about EVlander I have ever watched, but guess what...after watching your in-depth review, I finally bought this SUV...and I am loving it! ❤️Thanks for sharing it. Cheers from Finland!
@@TheFinndianLens hi, yeah it is pretty reliable and economical SUV. I drove 50 thousand km and haven't spent a single penny on any repair, apart from regular maintenance (oil+filter change). If you are thinking to buy one, I would suggest you go for the upper model that has hill stop (or brake stop) function as well as rear passenger AC/heat fan vents, which comes in later model, 2017 or 2018 onwards. All the best!
