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"Oh boy. They're still making this thing?! Perhaps best known among car connoisseurs as a close relative of the depressing Dodge Caliber, the Outlander Sport continues to party like it's roughly 2009, putting up a woeful 0-60 time of 9.5 seconds in base form while only managing 26 mpg. You can upgrade to a bigger engine that knocks that time down to 8 seconds flat, but now the price is up near $30k. There aren't many hard nos on the market today, but this Mitsu is one of them."—Ranked #18 out of 18 Subcompact SUVs
MotorDonkey's proprietary vehicle data identifies every significant version of each model so that you can compare and decide. Ordered by price from low to high, here are the versions of the 2024 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport that you need to be aware of, along with our expert analysis and recommendations.
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Besides being the answer to a sad trivia question — "What's the closest 2024 relative to the long dead and exceptionally terrible Dodge Caliber?" — the Outlander Sport 2.0 is a pokey little SUV that gets poor fuel economy given how slow it is. Seriously, 0-60 in 9.5 seconds and 29 mpg highway? That's straight out of the 1980s.
The good news is that the 2.4 SEL (the only Outlander Sport trim with the upgraded 2.4-liter engine) accelerates about as quickly as its Outlander big brother, unlike the truly anemic Outlander Sport 2.0. The bad news — well, there's a lot of it, but we'll start here — is that the Outlander Sport 2.4 SEL costs $100 more than the base Outlander, which is a vastly superior vehicle. Unless you really need the Sport's smaller dimensions to squeeze into a tiny parking space, there's no reason to buy this model.
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