Mitsubishi has reworked its slow-selling Outlander crossover for the 2016MY giving it a facelift with over 100 changes in hopes of improving its position in the market.
The easiest way you can tell it’s the updated model is from the front where Mitsubishi redesigned the entire fascia adding new LED position lights and plenty of chrome bits. Elsewhere on the outside, the front fenders are new as are the lower door sections, 18-inch alloy wheels, rear bumper and LED taillights.
Interior revisions include redesigned steering wheel, seating surfaces, accent trim, rear folding seat, headliner, display audio system and a new auto-dimming rearview mirror with Homelink for the GT model.
That’s what you can see, but Mitsubishi says it has also made changes under the skin including to the chassis to increase body and suspension structural rigidity, the suspension, the Electric Power Steering and the continuously-variable transmission.
It has also added sound-deadening materials throughout the interior along with a new noise-isolating windshield and rear door glass, and improved weather stripping and engine compartment trim.
For the 2016MY, the Outlander will carry on with the same 166-hp, 2.4-liter MIVEC 4-cylinder engine as before.
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