Mitsubishi Mirage/space star ( non hybrid as of date )

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  1. Flying White Dutchman

    Flying White Dutchman Senior Member

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    not sure where to post this

    its no a hybrid but a nice small high MPG car

    wonder what you all think about this one.

    1.2 liter 3 cyl with a CVT
    start/stop system for better city driving

    maybe my next car ;-)
    waiting for a plugin (PIP) in the future but can not effort it now. ( priuschat PIP discount? :p )

    reported to go as high as 29Km Per liter on the highway ( 80-90kmph ) city around 20km/L in real life test for economy

    would be a great small hybrid ( better CW then yaris hsd ) or EV.



    All-new 2013 Mitsubishi Mirage pricing unveiled; Fun starts at P498,000

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    2012 Mitsubishi Mirage MPG Reports | Fuelly

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    I had one once as a rental. Definitely a no thrills econo car, but I would have considered owning one. It's just that the US hasn't seen a Mirage in years. I think Mitsubishi stop offering it when they introduced the Lancer.
     
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    the mirage your talking about is something complete differrent
    or did you have this new model ? as a rental

    no trills indeed did a test drive.
    i was good to have the ICE off at stoplights because that was always iritating about a ICE only car,.
     
    #3 Flying White Dutchman, Aug 13, 2013
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    It was an old one I drove. It appears the new one will arrive here as a 2014.
     
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    a 1.2 liter 3 cyl ;-) for USA thats HUGEly small ;-)

    wonder how this car will be accepted.

    for me its a possible inbetween towards for EV or PIP
     
    #5 Flying White Dutchman, Aug 14, 2013
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    It is tiny, but so is the 1.4L turbo in the Sonic and Cruze. GM is planning on bringing out a smaller 3 cylinder. Same with Ford. The sub-compact market has gotten more interesting here. Guess Mitsubishi wants to get back into it.
     
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    It is but Chevrolet sells a 1.2 litre 4 cylinder Spark now and Ford has brought (at least to Canada) the 1.0 litre Ecoboost 3 cylinder engine.
     
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    yes but then your talking about a turbo eco boost and so on.
    those have like 100HP
    this is a 80HP ICE
     
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    The Spark's ICE is only 84hp at 6400rpm. That doesn't seem to have held sales back.
    Though the new 1L in the Opel Adam will have higher ratings because of the turbo and DI.
     
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    like Trollbait said, the Spark has 83hp(64kW)@6,300rpm and 83lb-ft(113Nm)@4,200rpm. We'll get the Mirage with the 1.2L. It's rated in Canada at 18.9km/L city and 22.7km/L highway.
     
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    here combined it is 24,4Km/l...... or 4,1 L/100km ( 3.8 highway 26,3km/L and 4,6 city 21,7km/l )

    someone i read did at 80kmph roads 29km/L ( based on gas pomp fill )
     
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    so for a long distance ( stay behind trucks and so on ) car it would be cleaner then a hyrbid yaris / prius c
    and for short distance a bike or middle distance a full EV
    like this [​IMG]
     
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    Wow, and I thought Transport Canada's numbers were optimistic =). I think our highway section is done at 80km/h with a warm engine.
     
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    it does come with start and stop as standard over here.
     
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    The other thread started with the report it will be 40mpg combined on the EPA test.
     
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    The other thread???
     
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    well i did a test drive and highway is finebut what do you expect assoon you get of to city it get higher and higher
    on board told me 4,8l/100km on highway it was dropping and dropping but i needed to turn around. at that point it was at 4,2
     
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    It started after this one in the general cars forum.
    '14 Mitsubishi Mirage will have 40 mpg combined w/CVT | PriusChat
    Not much to it, but the article has NA info.
    The new Mirage will be rated 37city/44hwy/40combined with the CVT in the US. The manual will be a bit lower.
     
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    here the CVT is better then the manual 1.2
    only 0.1L/100km less then the manual 1.0 liter that we also get here but only manual no cvt
     
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    Saw a Mirage on display at a local Costco store, it was a white one, I like it, the price is right. If i were in the market for a new car, it would be on the top of my list.
     
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