Though it's relatively roomy, the depressing cabin feels drab, cheap, and insubstantial. In the end, there is no compelling reason to buy a Mirage, and, for the same price, many much better used cars are available. Road Test. Predicted Reliability. Predicted Owner Satisfaction. Mitsubishi's tiny, Thailand-built subcompact seems like an act of desperation, dressing a primitive Asia-market car with some upscale toys and calling it a day. Good points include a decent-enough ride, terrific mpg fuel economy, and an accommodating rear seat.
The up-level ES also brings a fancy radio, push-button start, auto climate system and Bluetooth. However, the weak, vibrating, and incredibly noisy three-cylinder engine provides sluggish acceleration, handling is clumsy, and the cabin is depressingly low-rent.
Further lowering its standing is its poor score in the IIHS small-overlap crash test. The Mirage began as a small car with a jumpy, uncomfortable ride. The redesign brought vast improvements, including a relatively comfortable and quiet ride. Jerry and Janice Huot seem to love three things: the Minnesota Vikings, the musical genius of Prince, and their Mitsubishi Mirage, in which they racked up an incredible , miles.
Just imagine how it must have been tossed around by the winds of passing semis, almost being swallowed by large potholes and buried in snowdrifts, as they traveled up and down the state of Minnesota. The K adventure started, like many others, with a trip to a local showroom. While looking to trade in a Cadillac for an inexpensive vehicle with great fuel economy, the Huots came across a Plasma Purple subcompact Mitsubishi Mirage. Smitten by its color and value, they took it home.
After Janice added the initial or so miles, Jerry took over the vehicle and used it for his courier business driving around Minnesota delivering medical samples from medical offices to labs. The couple dubbed the vehicle the Purple Won, with the name on a set of vanity plates as a nod to Minneapolis's favorite son, Prince, who was known as the Purple One.
The tiny vehicle was also used to display the Huots' love of the Minnesota Vikings by putting on a set of magnetic horn decals, as well as when Jerry dressed the Mirage in a Vikings helmet for Janice's birthday. Outside work hours, the couple used the vehicle to haul rocks and mulch up their gravel driveway. The Huots were nothing if not brand loyal: they'd also owned an Outlander Sport and a Montero Sport in the past.
I'd love to get a euro transmission, for even better highway fuel economy, but otherwise the car performs admirably. Garage "Scarlett and Marsha". I have 48, on my '15 ES manual, and other than four corroded lug nuts which were replaced under warranty I have no problems to report.
My girlfriend has 43, on her '14 DE manual and hasn't had any trouble. Major problems with these cars are very few and far between. The only real issues have been the factory rear-end alignment issues and the car's tendency to chew through front brake pads.
Garage Little Red. I have spent much time working in Malaysia where Mitsubishi and cars with Mitsubishi 3 cylinder engines are popular. Thanks to tariffs, imported cars are very expensive and home market cars are clones of imports and not well made.
Consequently, they tend to keep cars a long time. And they have to sit in heavy traffic with AC goin 12 month a year.
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