Mitsubishi Ceo Confirms New Pajero/montero Is Coming Out This Year, And It May Be Sold In The U.s.

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Mitsubishi has near small uncertainty successful our minds that there's a caller Pajero/Montero flagship off-road SUV correct astir nan corner — restarting a nameplate that has been dormant since its plug was pulled successful 2020. The automaker's CEO, Keisuke Kishiura, gave a heavy-handed allusion to nan truth that Mitsubishi has been moving connected a caller Pajero, and it would beryllium officially unveiled very soon. This is breathtaking news for group who cognize Mitsu' could beryllium truthful overmuch much than it presently is.

While Kishiura didn't outright opportunity "there's a caller Pajero connected its way," he near very small room for mentation pinch what he told folks astatine nan Automobile Council 2026 forum successful Chiba, Japan. Here's what he said, according to Automotive News:

"The Pajero is simply a cross-country SUV that combines fully-fledged off-road capacity pinch nan easiness of handling and comfortableness of a rider car," he said. "We scheme to motorboat nan caller cross-country SUV wrong nan year."

It doesn't return overmuch of a encephalon brilliant to activity retired nan transitive spot of nan words "cross-country SUV" successful these sentences and recognize that Kishiura is referring to a reborn Pajero/Montero.

While its timing is acold from group successful stone, it'll still beryllium an incredibly important car for some nan recently minted CEO — who has been astatine nan helm for little than 2 weeks — and Mitsubishi, which has been dealing pinch declining income and a marque personality crisis, to opportunity nan least. Because of that, there's a batch riding connected this SUV, and Kishiura knows that.

"For me, nan Pajero is an entity of admiration," Kishiura told Automotive News. "Thanks to its off-road capability, allowing it to tackle immoderate upwind aliases roadworthy aboveground pinch confidence, its reliability, which withstands moreover nan harshest conditions, and its thrust value and comfortableness that minimize fatigue connected agelong drives, nan Pajero has been cherished by customers astir nan world."

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While nan Pajero died successful overmuch of nan world for nan 2021 exemplary year, we mislaid nan Montero present successful nan U.S. pursuing MY 2006, truthful it's been 20 goddamn years since Mitsubishi's off-road SUV has graced our streets. However, that doesn't needfully mean it won't travel our way. At nan Japan Mobility Show successful October of 2025, Kaoru Sawse, a Mitsubishi Fellow for conveyance engineering, told Auto News that nan institution was still looking into North America arsenic a imaginable landing spot for nan SUV, saying that location are still questions astir request successful North America. He added that nan company's charismatic reply is that "nothing has been decided yet." That "yet" is what gives maine each nan dream successful nan world.

This isn't nan first clip we've heard rumblings astir a caller Pajero/Montero. Spy shots posted online person shown what appears to beryllium a boxy prototype retired testing since astatine slightest July of 2025, and October's Mobility Show displayed nan caller all-electric Elevance Concept, according to Motor1. To us, it looked a hellhole of a batch for illustration a Pajero preview.

In January of this year, Mitsubishi decided to adhd a spot much substance to nan fire, posting a clip to its YouTube channel that highlighted some nan company's off-road motorsports practice and a speedy look astatine an SUV. It has nan aforesaid boxy style we saw successful erstwhile spy shots, and it's moreover sewage nan aforesaid hood line, headlights and C-pillar. If those aren't nan aforesaid vehicles, Mitsubishi is simply a maestro of disguise. Lest we forget, nan automaker revenge a trademark for nan Montero sanction pinch nan U.S. Patent and Trademark Office backmost successful 2024, Motor1 reports.

Of course, a batch still isn't known astir nan Pajero and Montero. Hell, we don't moreover cognize if it'll show up connected our shores, but I'm a large believer successful "when there's smoke, there's fire." Mitsubishi is intelligibly cooking up thing bully here. I conscionable dream it lets america get a bite.