Mitsubishi Outlander 2022

Will we get the new Outlander then?

Couldn't see them staying here unless they're doing a rappers job on it where they retire and come back a year later or less....

They'd want to be bringing some smashers to the table as they've been so bland and hardly anyone bought anything in their name.

What was wrong with the Mitsubishi GDI engines? They never seemed to take off and it was around that point in the late 90s Mitsubishi started to get into trouble. They genuinely had a good name in the late 80s/90s for quality and reliable technology. Of course people will argue they were not as good as Honda or Toyota but they were well up the resale and respected ranks

The petrol here at the time wasn't that good (there was no such thing as low sulphur fuel back in those days) which exacerbated the design flaw of direct injection petrols (the valves don't get 'washed' like they do in a traditional petrol engine - although some direct injection engines also used traditional port injection - such as V6 Toyota/Lexus engines), which also meant that the performance and mpg improvements that they were able to get in JDM cars never really materialised here. In Japan the same engine was rated at 140 bhp, here it was 123 bhp because of the higher RON rating in petrol over there.

Modern direct injection engines can still suffer from carbon build up but it's nowhere near as common as it used to be because things have rather moved on since this engine first saw the light of day 25 years ago plus we use low sulphur fuel nowadays. That said direct injection petrol engines never sound as nice as traditional engines, they produce more NOx than an otherwise identical port injected petrol and they also produce particulates like a diesel - whereas a traditional petrol produces no particulates whatsoever. What they do manage is to come a lot closer to a diesel for fuel consumption while still delivering significant improvements in both particulates and NOx.