So what’s new? This Thai-made Pajero Sport remains based on the Triton’s platform, which in its new-generation guise sits on a modified version of its predecessor’s platform.
But the changes made have been done to remove some of the old seven-year-old Challenger’s utilitarian characteristics, which make way for more refinement, luxury and safety. This Pajero Sport will still take a beating, Mitsubishi says, but it’s also moved upmarket.
This latter point might get more vital, given there’s no new version of the bigger Pajero in sight, with the 16-year old current model to soldier on for a few years yet. The Pajero Sport, you suspect, will have to fill whatever void that leaves.
Some of the changes in short? A new ‘high’ dashboard design, new suspension geometry to make it better in corners, greater sound-deadening, improved wading depth, and brand-first active safety systems such as blind-spot monitoring.
It’s also the first Mitsubishi with both LED daytime running lights and tail-lights, an eight-speed automatic transmission and an electronic parking brake.
Inside the cabin, Mitsubishi claims to have liberated greater amounts of cabin space, though the only aspect where the Pajero Sport is dimensionally different to the Challenger is in its overall length, up 90mm. The wheelbase is unchanged.
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