No Montero , but Mitsubishi considers new pickup, sedan for US market Read more

[newworld2004]

No Montero for U.S market , but we may see Pickup base on Nissan platform, I am wondering why not importing L200?

http://www.leftlanenews.com/mitsubishi-considers-new-pickup-sedan-for-us-market-95778.html

 

[Offroadmuch]

Good looking little truck. I hope Mitsubishi does not just do a lot of rebadging. On some platforms it doesn't matter much but a lot of their cars and trucks are so well engineered and built it would be ashame to let that history and reputation for quality just fade away.

 

[Jeff V.]

I am wondering why not importing L200?

Too expensive to crash test and smog it when Nissan already did that for their trucks.

It sounds like the next gen Frontier/Navara and L200 will all be designed around the same chassis right from the start.

 

[Toasty]

What will be great is Mitsubishi will do something stupid again and try to trick their customers into a NON Mitsubishi truck like the Raider pickup and it will bomb hard. THEN Fiat/RAM will roll out the Fiat Fullback maybe branded as a Ram 1000 or something, It'll get fantastic reviews and people will be amazed that Fiat/RAM could crank out such a quality machine. They'll sell a ton of them and we can all buy them and badge them back to Triton L200. It'll be great, I can't wait to show up to MOD in a REAL Mitsubishi pickup and Mitsubishi North America can wallow in their poor marketing skills.

Fiat Fullback

Mitsubishi Triton Savana

Yes these are both the same truck.

 

[Jeff V.]

The yellow and black one makes me think Bumblebee (from Transformers) went to Australia, got blackout drunk, and woke up to find out he'd been overhauled by the locals.

THEN Fiat/RAM will roll out the Fiat Fullback maybe branded as a Ram 1000 or something

They sell it as the Ram 1200 in the middle east.

 

[haven]

The Mercedes X-Class midsize pickup will also use the new Nissan Navara platform. Unlikely to be sold in North America, however.

https://vans.mercedes-benz.co.uk/products/x-class/x-class.html

The next Frontier pickup, using the Navara platform, should be available in 2018. Four cylinder Cummins diesel is a possibility.

 

[newworld2004]

and U.S will get Mirage instead !

 

[Toasty]

RAM 1200 for the win!

 

[JamesW]

I saw a Fiat fullback a few months back and had to do a double take! If you get that in the states you can rest assured that it has the full mitsubishi running gear on it and you're in pretty safe hands

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[newworld2004]

I saw a Fiat fullback a few months back and had to do a double take! If you get that in the states you can rest assured that it has the full mitsubishi running gear on it and you're in pretty safe hands

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it will be very very long time if it ever gets to North America , but hey they managed to send us Mirage .

 

[Offroadmuch]

Nissan Patrol and Montero may share platform moving forward:
http://www.caradvice.com.au/530581/...i-pajero-and-nissan-patrol-to-share-platform/

 

[Jeff V.]

I doubt we'll ever see it as a Fiat-Chrysler product. Jeep is currently testing prototypes of a Wrangler based pickup. That's where FCA will make their money in that segment. I just don't see a mid sized pickup fitting into the US Ram product line.