Mitsubishi Triton 2019 News

At a point not too long ago, the reigning champions of the Australian automotive industry were the Holden Commodore and Ford Falcon - both large sedans with V8 engine options that could seat the whole family and cruise in comfort.Somewhere along the line

After nine months of trading, Australia's new car sales shows no signs of lifting by the end of the year.Overall, the market has dropped 7.9 per cent to 8111,464 to the end of September, with Toyota (154,515, -6.3%) once again the dominant player in the A

Renault has ruled out the Alaskan ute for Australia, and will instead look to the Mitsubishi Triton to fill its dual-cab void. That's the word from Renault Australian managing director Anouk Poelmann, who today confirmed earlier plans to introduce th

With one quarter to go before the end of 2019, Australia's new car market continues to haemorrhage sales as September's figures reveal a drop of 6.9 per cent to 88,181 units compared to the same month last year.Only the SUV market managed to find growth l

When Mitsubishi took the wraps off the Triton Absolute concept at the Bangkok motor show in March, it looked to all the ute-loving world like the Ford Ranger Raptor was about to get speared by a triple diamond-encrusted challenger.

Australia's best new cars are now one step closer to being announced, with judges finalising the Top 10 models for each 2019 CarsGuide Car of the Year award.

Mitsubishi Motors Australia has extended its promotional seven-year warranty campaign for its Triton ute to the end of August.

The Mitsubishi's Triton Absolute concept is firming for production, with the company's Australian arm readying to pitch its Japanese head office to green-light the project.The Absolute was first revealed in Bangkok in March, and was designed to show Mit

The Australian new vehicle market continued to fall in May, with an 8.1 percent slide across the market, matching an 8.1 percent decline year-to-date in 2019.

The next-generation Mitsubishi Triton may still be years away, but there are already details leaking out about what to expect.It has been confirmed by the Japanese company’s chief operating officer, Trevor Mann, that the next-generation Triton ute will also form the basis for the next Nissan Navara and Renault Alaskan.Mr Mann told industry journal Automotive News that the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance has made the decision that Mitsubishi offers the best depth of knowledge and hardware for the next-gen versions of each of the brand’s pick-up trucks to be based on."Shortly after the Alliance, we did a detailed technical study between , and we found that Mitsubishi had many advantages over the Nissan platform," Mr Mann is quoted as saying. The announcement flies in the face of public statements made to the contrary by Nissan execs a few months ago, when it was suggested Mitsubishi had jumped the gun by asserting it would take the lead on development of the next-generation utes.The current-generation Triton architecture underpins that particular pick-up model, as well as the Pajero Sport off-road SUV. By contrast, Nissan’s current-generation Navara’s underpinnings are spread quite a bit further, being found beneath the Terra SUV from the same brand, plus the Renault Alaskan pick-up and the Mercedes-Benz X-Class ute. It’s too early to say what that could mean for the development of a second-generation version of the Mercedes-Benz X-Class - whether the brand will continue to form part of a commercial vehicle alliance with is unclear.  The next-generation version of the Triton is likely more than four years away.Existing alliance products produced for Renault-Nissan-Mercedes have fallen by the wayside - the Infiniti Q30/Mercedes A-Class mingling only lasted one life cycle, while the Renault Twingo/Smart alliance - the latter brand may be culled entirely within weeks.That said, commercial vehicle alliances are stronger in general - Renault-Mercedes has an existing agreement on small vans, producing the Kangoo/Citan as a result. That hasn’t been replicated in larger vans, though - Mercedes went on its own for the Vito and Sprinter.