The Mitsubishi Destinator is the Mitsubishi that answered a simple question — how much car can this badge carry? — with 120 kW from Petrol engine. It was built from 2025, in the decade the industry is turning electric. The shape is credited to Alessandro Dambrosio, Naoki Akita.
How it came about
The Mitsubishi Destinator is a compact crossover SUV with three-row seating manufactured by Mitsubishi Motors since 2025. It is mainly marketed for emerging markets in Africa, Latin America, Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. The Destinator name was chosen for the model "in the hopes that it would empower drivers and their beloved families to pursue new destinations with confidence".
The hardware
The engine is Petrol engine; the output is 120 kW; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. On the scales it comes to 1495 kg. That is roughly 80 horsepower per tonne: unhurried — enough for the job, not for the bragging. Drive goes through a CVT8. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2815 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
In the Mitsubishi line-up the Mitsubishi Destinator has a clear place: it replaced the Mitsubishi Freeca/Adventure/Kuda/Jolie / Mitsubishi Zinger; the factory was Cikarang. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Audi Q9, the Toyota bZ5, the Mazda CX-6e. Its Mitsubishi stablemates include the Mitsubishi Lancer and the Mitsubishi 360.