Mitsubishi
This is the catalogue record of the Mitsubishi Pajero iO, one of 168 models Mitsubishi has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 1998. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Mitsubishi Pajero iO properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1990s were the decade of refinement — airbags and ABS became universal, Japanese build quality set the world standard, and the modern SUV segment was effectively invented. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Saab Automobile Saab 9-3, the Audi AG Audi TT, the Peugeot Peugeot 206 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Mitsubishi Pajero iO reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 1.6 L Mitsubishi Orion engine#4G18 / 4G18 Straight-four engine / I4 / 1.8 L Mitsubishi 4G9 engine#4G93 / 4G93 I4 / 1.8 L Mitsubishi 4G9 eng; kerb weight is recorded at 1250 -; drive goes through 5-speed manual / 4-speed automatic; the layout is Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout / Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive / Front-engine, four-wheel-drive layout / Front-engine, four-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear. Production is recorded at 257,585 units, which makes it a solid production run.
Within Mitsubishi's own catalogue the Mitsubishi Pajero iO sits alongside the Mitsubishi Lancer, the Mitsubishi 360, the Mitsubishi L300 wagon, the Mitsubishi 380. The record names the Mitsubishi Pajero Junior as its predecessor and the Mitsubishi RVR/ASX/Outlander Sport as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Pininfarina. Assembly is recorded at Japan: Okazaki, Aichi (Mitsubishi Motors#Locations / Nagoya Plant) / Italy: Turin (Pininfarina) / Brazil: Catalão (HPE Automotores) / China: Changsha (Changfeng Motor).
This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.
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