Loyal to good businessesUnincorporated, VIC
- 18 reviews
Misunderstood by car reviewers
Very simply the electric outlander is a good buy and Subaru have just released a self charging hybrid which mimics the charging while driving function of the Outlander.
1: dual fuel... electric and petrol so if you run out of fuel RACV just give you some petrol.
2. Home charging. Well your oven works on a 15 amp circuit so does the mitsi. There are also chargers which plug into a standard household 10 amp socket.
3. On road charging while driving gives you a new full tank in 30 minutes.
4. All the advantages of a family SUV four wheel drive.
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Purchased for A$45,000.00.
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GaryGreater Melbourne (Inner), VIC
- 4 reviews
Well the car is an amazing vehicle but the service was expensive and terrible
2017 model took it in for capacity loss but been told it is all good and as per design.
Had to take it to Adelaide to fix it.
Yes I did have to drive it to Adelie from Melbourne because nobody knew a thing about it here
Purchased in March 2021 at Mitsubishi Dealers for A$35,000.00.
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MarkRichmond-Tweed, NSW
- 2 reviews
- 2 likes
Terrible customer service, very hard to talk to a person
I am writing this in the hope that a real person will call me about a serious Dealership complaint. The Electric component of my Phev is only good for 40 KMS . It should do 300 and they say nothing is wrong with it. If that's true I will go to the department of Fair Trading as they car has false advertising.
Purchased in June 2021.
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Sophie
- 6 reviews
Pleasantly surprised
Really enjoying this car! My last car was a Ford Kuga and I felt like it chewed through the petrol. The Outlander is way better in this regard. The technology in the car is perfect and as a Mum of 2 (needing 2 bulky car seats and a pram to fit) the car is spacious!
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KMEMelbourne
- 2 reviews
Perfect for our family
After much shopping around a very saturated SUV market, we landed on a brand new Outlander. So glad we made this choice. Perfect for our family, easy to drive, excellent safety features, comfortable and a great size. An absolute pleasure to drive. Fantastic value for money and very suited to families.
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Polly Perks
- 5 reviews
- 11 likes
Really good, but room for improvement
This is an electric hybrid that really works. I have no trouble getting the 50km range in hilly Sydney from the battery. The regenerative braking really helps with the range, saves the brakes (I barely use them), and is actually a very convenient way to maintain your speed down a hill. (After you're used to it go drive a normal car and you'll be searching for those steering wheel paddles down the first hill you come to.) The ride is very quiet with one forward gear and I feel less stressed sitting in stop go traffic as we crawl along.
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r is heavy due to the battery, but because the weight is low down the car feels nice and stable around corners and not top heavy at all. That said, the supplied tyres are appalling bad. So bad they're verging on dangerous in the wet and I'm leaving extra stopping distance between me and the car in front, especially when going down hill. I'll be replacing them with a good wet weather Bridgestone tyre well before they're close to wearing out. Most city trips are done entirely on the battery, but we often head out to the Blue Mountains, down to Canberra or up to the Hunter Valley, and the petrol motor combines really well with the electric motors on the freeways. Press the "Save" button and the car will maintain the approximate charge of the battery, but it does it really, really smoothly, turning the petrol engine off and on, smoothing out demand and usage to make for a quiet ride. It's all done seamlessly and you really have to listen hard to know sometimes whether the petrol motor is on or not. Around 70 kmh the direct drive for the front wheels kicks in and this is a very efficient way to drive. We average just over 6 litres per 100km on a trip to Canberra and back. From the north of Sydney to Canberra and back on one 40 litre tank of fuel. However, If you press the "Charge" button then the engine works quite a bit harder (especially up hills), because it's always trying to generate more electricity than it's using. I don't recommend using the "Charge" button around the city because it turns the car into an absolute dog, especially on those 60 kmh hills. Save it for the freeway and arrive in town with enough juice to drive fully electric. That's using it properly and I wish they gave these tips at the dealership or in the manual because it took a bit of trial and error to work it all out. If I drive solely on electric then I can charge the battery (at off peak rates) for about a fifth the cost of what I'd had paid in petrol. If I charge on a sunny day then my solar panels can cover the 2400 watt charge and that's a nice feeling. I'm investigating getting a battery pack for the house and I can see the potential here to incorporate the house solar and battery with the car's battery and generator to go completely off the grid. It'd be a nice idea that's hopefully not too far in the future, but at the moment (unlike the Nissan Leaf) you can't draw 240 volt power from the car's battery to power any home appliances or charge up a home battery pack on cloudy days. The car is surprisingly quick in a straight line. Most of the time I'm driving like your average Joe in the city using the four wheel electric motors with all the torque immediately available. No drama. It keeps pace with the flow of traffic well. But there have been a couple of occasions I've had to out drag a BMW X5 from the lights to a turn off and the PHEV is certainly no slouch when you instantaneously engage the extra 87kW of petrol engine to the front wheels. It's a lot of car to move, but it does a good job of it when you put the foot down. (When you do this you will find your battery draining rather faster than usual though.)Similar opinion? Write a review on ieatwords.com.au!
DavidSouth East Queensland, QLD
- 28 reviews
PHEV: LOVE it, couldn't be much happier.
Note- see updates at the end.
We bought an ex dealer owned PHEV MY14.5 in absolutely as new condition with only 16k on the clock, for about $30k, way waaay cheaper than new.
My wife and I absolutely LOVE this car. With our typical driving patterns we will actually have to be careful to use some fuel occasionally and not let it get too stale! The vast majority of our driving is electric, which is just fantastic, cheap as chips and virtually silent. Ours is the base model, yet equipment levels and comfort are still great, with features like exc...Read more
Purchased in April 2021.
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lesceeVincentia
- 4 reviews
a nice car and very economical to run
The electric motors are incredibly quiet and smooth running. Ample power and the transfer to hybrid or petrol and back to electric is seamless. Running costs around town are virtually zero as I charge it using solar power. In country running in hybrid mode we get about 4 litres/100km. Comfort is great with good legroom and luggage space although we upgraded to a spare wheel rather than relying on the tyre repair kit provided.
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SanikiSydney
- 16 reviews
Plug and play in the city! Low running costs due to being electric and only once yearly service
As this Phev is my first electric car, I was impressed that I could just plug it in at night into a normal Australian socket. I did not need to install a special loading station that some other car manufacturers require. It is simply Plug & Play! The Mitsubishi dealer also let me test drive the car overnight so I could try it out which convinced me.
If you have not tried a electric car, book a test drive as you need to hear how silent the car is compared to a petrol version. Very Zen in a traffic jam!
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park and beeps reliably for any dangers. The Outlander is spacious and can fit my fold up Kayak inside the car. The aircon and stereo make it comfortable to drive. The interactive voice system is a bit primitiv, but it manages to dial a person without you needing to press any buttons while driving. If I were Mitsubishi, I would improve the navigation system as it is often wrong as it is out of date and due to price and complexity not possible to update. So they should just use Apple car play or similar which updates itself without issues.Similar opinion? Write a review on ieatwords.com.au!
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David HMelbourne
- 8 reviews
- 9 likes
Outlander PHEV - Comfortable, very economical and fun to drive
We bought this car second-hand at a very good price (ex head-office demo model, apparently), primarily due to it being a plug-in hybrid. We'd investigated going on the waiting list for a Tesla (very expensive + range anxiety) or another plug-in hybrid such as the Volt (a much smaller car), but found the Outlander PHEV to be a good compromise for a single car family comprised of tall people. Still extremely happy with this choice, based on 6 months of mostly electric driving so far!
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Hybrid GuyAU
- 4 reviews
- 14 likes
ZJ Aspire PHEV Hybrid
Just bought the PHEV Aspire with all the bells and whistles. This is the plug-in Hybrid version. Not even burnt a tank of fuel yet, so too early to say much of value. Smooth, whisper quiet, pleasant driving experience, fuel economy is still very impressive if you can't be bothered plugging it in overnight. It does what it claims; operates as a pure Electric Vehicle for a range of around 50km from a full charge so theoretically could drive for months without any petrol used at all, dependent of usage patterns.
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ferent way to drive, will find it hard to go back to a standard car after this, although have driven Prius's for years and love them too, for much the same reasons. Extremely well equipped, in Aspire trim. Gripes? 1. Should have folding mirrors 2. FCM Front Collision Mitigation is temperamental and cannot be relied upon, (not that we should). 3. Not so sure the 4WD badge really belongs on it. If it lifts one wheel, (one only-front or rear) it stops, despite having a center diff lock function. Traction control doesn't work aggressively enough to maintain forward momentum in these instances 4. Charger that comes with the car should, IMHO, be inbuilt and simply require a lead (15Amp) to be connected, instead of having to unpack the whole devise every time. Some may choose to wall mount it in their preferred parking place.Similar opinion? Write a review on ieatwords.com.au!
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