2024 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV Long-Term Review, Part 1: What's the Story?

Over the next four weeks, we'll be getting to know the 2024 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV a little better. This is the first chapter of our long-term test of the SUV.

By now, you know what PHEV stands for: Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle. Anyway, when it arrived in 2013, the Outlander compact SUV created a bit of a revolution. Let's start by putting it in context...

Mitsubishi has been selling cars in Canada since 2002; 22 years later, its 2024 range includes five models. In addition to the Outlander PHEV, there's its gasoline-powered sibling, the Outlander, two other SUVs, the Eclipse Cross and the RVR, and finally the Mirage, an extremely rare compact sedan in a market that is squeezing them out one after the other. This will be the Mirage's fate as well, since the 2024 model-year represents its last in Canada.

Portrait in figures
The Outlander duo has a lot of pressure on its shoulders, as it is the undisputed star of the brand's small Canadian portfolio. Last year, Mitsubishi sold 35,708 vehicles, an increase of 61.2 percent over 2022 and a new record for the Canadian market. Of the total, the two Outlanders accounted for 19,551 units - 9,640 gasoline-powered Outlanders and 9,911 PHEV variants.

In other words, Outlanders accounted for more than half (55 percent) of Mitsubishi's total sales in Canada in 2023.

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