{"id":503789,"date":"2010-04-01T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T19:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/01\/new-york-2010-mitsubishi-hopes-2011-outlander-sport-will-be-the\/"},"modified":"2010-04-01T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T19:59:00","slug":"new-york-2010-mitsubishi-hopes-2011-outlander-sport-will-be-their-volume-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/503789","title":{"rendered":"New York 2010: Mitsubishi hopes 2011 Outlander Sport will be their volume leader"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: New York Auto Show<\/a>, Budget<\/a>, Japan<\/a>, Crossover<\/a>, Mitsubishi<\/a><\/p>\n

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2011 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport – Click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n

\nLet’s just go on ahead and make that much needed<\/em> volume leader. The great economic collapse of 2009 smashed Mitsubishi<\/a> in the teeth with a much larger brick than most other manufacturers. Thinks have slightly improved, but their February sales were still down 10 percent<\/a>, and from an already frighteningly low level. Obviously, something must be done. <\/p>\n

Meet the 2011 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport<\/a>, or as they’re calling it in alphanumeric-loving Europe, the ASX<\/a>. We’ve covered this particular small crossover pretty extensively already, so here’s the U.S. spec deal. It’s 15 inches shorter than the Outlander GT<\/a>. Like its big brother, it gets magnesium paddle shifters. However, they are connected to a CVT instead of Mitsu’s sweet dual-clutch gearbox. Now, no one has driven the Outlander Sport yet, and CVTs have gotten massively better in the last few years, so don’t bunch your panties up quite yet.<\/p>\n

The real upshot of that CVT is the Outlander Sport’s 31 mpg highway figure, a right respectable number for a small crossover. In fact, that means the Outlander Sport is competitive with a small CUV we like a whole bunch, the new Hyundai Tucson<\/a>. Besides the CVT, Mitsu has installed weight-saving plastic front fenders, electric power steering and has sculpted the Outlander Sport down to a admirably slippery 0.33 Cd. The Outlander Sport can also be shifted from front-wheel drive to all-wheel drive and yes<\/em>, you will be able to order yours in this particularly vibrant shade of show car blue.<\/p>\n

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Gallery: New York 2010: Mitsubishi Outlander Sport<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nPhotos by Drew Phillips<\/a> \/ Copyright (C)2010 Weblogs, Inc.<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Filed under: New York Auto Show, Budget, Japan, Crossover, Mitsubishi 2011 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport – Click above for high-res image gallery Let’s just go on ahead and make that much needed volume leader. The great economic collapse of 2009 smashed Mitsubishi in the teeth with a much larger brick than most other manufacturers. Thinks have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}