See my post above yours, click on the link and it takes you to a different thread with plenty of opinions on the Mitsubishi.
Note, the one I had was 25 years ago so things may have changed since then. I had the gasoline engine. It has a rubber timing belt so you need to change that belt, don't go over the miles on the belt as it is an "interference" engine meaning if the belt breaks, the valves and pistons will hit. Ground clearance is low. The transfer case ratio is not very deep. About the same as a Nissan Frontier. Something like 1.7:1 I did like that it has a lot of space inside and it is an infinitely stronger chassis than a Vanagon.
Sorry, I have a hard time being excited about any fossil fuel vehicles anymore. I'm a Tesla owner and a professional mechanic, ICE engines are looking absurd to me. With electric you have full torque from 1 RPM to 16,000 RPM. No need for transmission nor transfer case. Full size Tesla truck 4x4 is coming in 3 to 4 years, 500 miles of range. I am #1 in line!
Can you image, had electric cars taken hold at the time of the Model T, all cars would have been electric today. Fast forward to 2015, you are an engineer at say, GM. Your boss comes to you with this idea that gasoline vapor and a match makes an explosion, and he wants you tap that explosion to make a car go. But you'll have to deal with cancer causing poisonous exhaust, high heats, complicated transmission, exploding gas tanks, oil spills, foreign wars, etc, etc. The men in white suits would come and take this boss away in a straight jacket
