Less Noise, Better Timing
Driver assistance systems are one of the best things to happen to modern cars – to some extent, of course. Some of these systems are so sensitive, they engage as soon as you breathe near a lane marker. Others blast you with loud chimes and beeps, which, to be honest, can be more distracting than whatever they’re supposed to be saving you from.
Turns out, Mitsubishi is on the same page. With the all-new Pajero, the brand made it a mission not to repeat the Triton’s biggest sin – safety alerts that act like you’re about to drive off a cliff every five minutes. Rather than ditching the tech, Mitsubishi made it less in-your-face for daily driving.
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Mitsubishi Says It Listened to Feedback
According to Australia’s Drive, Mitsubishi executives acknowledged that customer feedback from the Triton directly influenced how the Pajero’s driver assistance systems were tuned.
“I understand that those are the voices we got from the market when we launched Triton,” Pajero chief product specialist Kunitoshi Itagaki said. The Triton, of course, is the pickup truck that Pajero partly shares its platform with.
He explained that Mitsubishi went back to the drawing board for the Pajero’s driving experience, right down to the noises the safety systems make. Chief vehicle engineer Takaaki Matsumoto said the sensors are the same, but the brains behind them got smarter. Now, the Pajero decides when to bug you – and how – more thoughtfully.
“The sensor basically is common, but we modified the judgment criteria or the way of announcing the alert to the driver,” Matsumoto said.
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A More Advanced Pajero Nears Its Showroom Debut
The new Pajero packs Mitsubishi’s latest driver assistance arsenal: Forward Collision Mitigation, Predictive Forward Collision Warning, Emergency Lane Assist, Front Cross Traffic Alert, MI-PILOT highway assist, and a whopping eight airbags. It’s also the first Mitsubishi to get a front center airbag.
The all-new Pajero is set to hit showrooms in several global markets starting early 2027, with Thailand and Australia first in line after the global reveal.
As for the US, Mitsubishi still hasn’t said if the Pajero or Montero nameplate is coming back. Execs have hinted that a hybrid Pajero could boost the odds of a Montero-sized SUV returning to America, but for now, there’s nothing official.
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Jacob Oliva
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