First look at Mitsubishi Pajero 2027: Renders show new plug-in hybrid Toyota Prado, Ford Everest, GWM Tank 500 rival

Mitsubishi Motors Company is determined to revive its iconic Pajero nameplate (or most certainly Montero or Shogun, reckoning in the marketplace) in 2026 with a colossal, luxurious physique-on-frame SUV.

The original model will effectively replace every the decade-extinct Pajero Sport and the greater, now-discontinued Pajero with one original-generation, off-toll road-succesful SUV.

In line with the most sleek Triton’s ladder-frame chassis, no longer the rumoured underpinnings of the original Y63 Nissan Patrol, the following-generation Pajero will likely be a extra sophisticated automobile than the also Triton-basically based totally Pajero Sport.

Successfully, it would per chance maybe well provide Mitsubishi with a upright Toyota LandCruiser Prado and Ford Everest rival, as effectively with no consideration flagship model.

While the shared Triton engineering facets to a much less advanced, more affordable 4WD than the monocoque-platformed Pajero that ended manufacturing four years in the past, Mitsubishi looks obvious to revive the dynamic and construct excellence of this a lot-loved Pajero model (1999-2021).

It obtained’t be the same-again, ute-basically based totally-wagon love the budget Pajero Sport.

Sticking to upright ‘Pajero’ (or Montero/Shogun) for the nameplate is yet to be formally confirmed, then again if Mitsubishi wishes to put its original colossal, ladder-frame SUV as a succesful, luxurious, high quality 4WD providing, then distancing this original model from the low-rent Pajero Sport would per chance maybe well be an wise technique.

These reportedly upright construct renders from Theottle repeat the original-generation Pajero contains several distinctive Mitsubishi construct cues.

Vertical head- and tail-gentle parts, the Triton’s broadly masculine grille shape, and the Outlander’s floating roof discontinue with blacked-out pillars, into a colossal and imposing, yet surprisingly gorgeous construct.

As published by camouflaged watch pics taken in Europe in July, the 2027 Pajero/Montero/Shogun will characteristic a clamshell bonnet, squared-off wheelarches, a beltline kick-up in the rear doorways, and a tapering glasshouse.

It has been urged that the original Pajero’s styling takes some inspiration from the Y63 Patrol, which you would possibly maybe watch in this render with its shoulder line and entire-width tail-gentle lustrous, even supposing Mitsubishi’s colossal SUV will likely be a long way from a clone.

If the manufacturing automobile manages to successfully capture the strong surfacing, classy percentage and restrained detailing considered here, then the original-generation Pajero will already be off to a colossal begin.

Pajero: Dash-in hybrid powerhouse?

While there would possibly maybe be an expectation that the original Pajero will provide some in discovering of hybridisation throughout its lifespan, precisely what in discovering that would possibly maybe steal is yet to be obvious.

Mitsubishi has an impressively prolonged and winning history with lunge-in hybrids so a ‘Pajero PHEV’ is quite a sure bet, even supposing per chance no longer from initiate.

A lunge-in hybrid Triton has also been mooted for the future, so given the shared platform between Triton and original Pajero, a PHEV model must be on the horizon.

The the rest of the powertrain line-up – and even the suspension structure – remains initiate to speculation at this level.

A PHEV model of the Pajero would work supreme with a cleaner, quieter petrol engine, similar to the MY25 Outlander’s mixture of a 2.4-litre petrol four-cylinder with two electrical motors (one entrance, one rear) and a 22.7kWh battery for a gadget power output of 225kW.

Nonetheless its adaptability to the separate-chassis Triton platform from the Outlander’s monocoque CMF-CD platform is yet to be obvious.

Being a Triton relative technique that Mitsubishi’s 150kW/470Nm 2.4-litre twin-turbo four-cylinder diesel engine is a easy inclusion, even supposing it would per chance maybe well require worthy calibration work – and a brand original computerized transmission with extra than six ratios – to entire justice in a colossal, luxurious, 4WD-succesful SUV.

Rival SUVs and 4WDs count on the same four-cylinder diesel powertrains, similar to the 148kW/440Nm 2.2-litre turbo-diesel in the Kia Sorento/Hyundai Palisade and the 150kW/500Nm 2.8-litre at ease-hybrid turbo-diesel in the Toyota Prado, even supposing all these vehicles characteristic eight-tempo computerized transmissions.

The most sleek 4WD class benchmark, the Ford Everest, parts a 10-tempo computerized and two diesel powertrain alternate suggestions – a 154kW/500Nm 2.0-litre twin-turbo diesel four-cylinder and an effortless 184kW/600Nm 3.0-litre turbo-diesel V6.

Among the stable of alliance powertrains (Mitsubishi, Nissan and Renault), no person in the period in-between offers a diesel V6 engine.

The Ford Everest also parts a 5-link, coil-sprung model of the Ranger’s dwell-axle rear suspension – upright love the Ranger Raptor – while the coil-sprung Prado enjoys a the same profit over the leaf-sprung Hilux.

If the original-generation Pajero is to augment on the underdone scoot quality and disappointing load administration of the most sleek Triton, then its rear suspension hardware would require entire re-engineering and upgrading for it to match the dynamic abilities of the Everest and Prado.

In its heyday, the distinctive Mitsubishi Pajero became as soon as a grand success – reaching its Japanese manufacturing memoir of 174,708 items with the second-generation model in 1992.

It maintained a fixed following in Australia throughout a few generations from its initiate in January 1983 to its eventual departure in 2022.

The Pajero’s all-time Australian gross sales memoir became as soon as performed in 1993 with 9285 items. The final time its annual gross sales exceeded 7000 items in our market became as soon as 2007.

Quiz the original-generation Mitsubishi Pajero (if that nameplate will get favorite) to look in Australian showrooms at some point in late-2026, as a 2027 model.