The Mitsubishi ASX is a 5-door SUV from Mitsubishi, built from 2010, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. Under the bonnet: Petrol engine. Norihiko Yoshihime drew it.
The story
The Mitsubishi ASX (abbreviation of "Active Sports Crossover") is a subcompact crossover SUV manufactured by the Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors. On introduction, it was positioned below the Outlander in Mitsubishi's crossover SUV line-up, until the Eclipse Cross filled the gap between the ASX and Outlander in 2017. It was built on the GS platform closely shared with the Lancer and Outlander. For the European market, the second-generation ASX is a rebadged Renault Captur, which was sold from March 2023.
What is underneath
Power comes from Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It shifts through a 5/6-speed manual transmission / manual / 6-speed Automatic transmission / automatic / 6-speed INVECS-III Continuously variable transmission / CVT. The wheelbase is 2670 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Mitsubishi Pajero iO / Mitsubishi RVR#N60 / Mitsubishi RVR (second generation) (for RVR nameplate); its successor was the Mitsubishi Xforce (emerging markets); assembly was at Okazaki, Aichi (Mitsubishi Motors#Locations. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Lexus LFA, the Nissan Leaf, the Jeep Grand Cherokee — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Mitsubishi catalogue sit the Mitsubishi Lancer and the Mitsubishi 360.