Mitsubishi Pajero Sport and Eclipse Cross of their remaining days

Australians solely have a restricted time to get their palms on a brand new Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross or Pajero Sport.

On the launch of the brand new ASX, Mitsubishi Australia informed media the corporate was anticipating present inventory of the small SUV and enormous off-road SUV to be exhausted inside months.

“Eclipse Cross ought to run out, and Pajero Sport ought to run out by the top of the yr,” Tim Clarke, Product Technique Supervisor, informed the media convention.

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Mitsubishi was pressured to axe the 2 fashions following the introduction of Australian Design Rule (ADR) 98/00 on March 1, 2025, which required new automobiles to satisfy up to date necessities for autonomous emergency braking techniques (AEB).

It’s understood Mitsubishi imported and stockpiled brand-new Eclipse Cross and Pajero Sport automobiles previous to the March 1 cut-off.

“Given the place of [the previous] ASX, Eclipse Cross and Pajero Sport of their present life cycles, funding in direction of the re-engineering of those automobiles to include the brand new ADRs was not commercially possible,” stated Mitsubishi Australia’s former CEO, Shaun Westcott, again in January 2025.

“In consequence, Australian manufacturing of those automobiles has ended.”