Much more importantly, the importer has significantly stripped prices across the range, ranging from a useful $1500 saving, to a whopping $7000 reduction, the latter on the stunning high-performance Mitsubishi Evo.
Note that the prices listed below don’t include on-road costs. These can vary from state to state and dealer to dealer. Contact your dealer for a quote on driveaway pricing.
All Mitsubishi Lancer 2015 models now have indicator lamps in the door mirrors, new designs and colours of door trims, and the excellent safety feature of ESS (Emergency Stop Signal) that automatically turns on the four-way flashers when you brake hard.
The price leader is the Lancer ES Sport sedan with a manual gearbox. It now has a recommended retail price of $18,990. New in the ES for 2015 are two-tone 10-spoke 16-inch alloy wheels, Ralliart cloth seat trim with contrast stitching and a leather look centre console trim
Already standard in the Lancer ES Sport are Bluetooth hands free and audio streaming, voice control, seven airbags including a driver’s knee airbag, and a body kit with rear spoiler and side skirts.
Added features on the Lancer LS are more modest, it too has a new design of 16-inch alloy wheels. However its standard equipment levels were already high: smart key, a 6.1-inch colour touchscreen, reversing camera, and leather facing on the seats, heated front seats and power adjustable driver’s seat.
Mitsubishi has decided to change the name of the Lancer VRX sedan to XLS. It has a bigger engine than its lower-priced brothers, with a 2.4-litre four-cylinder engine putting out 125 kW of power. That’s backed by 18-inch alloy wheels and sports suspension.
The new Lancer XLS, which starts at $26,490, has a nine-speaker Rockford Fosgate sound system, 7-inch colour touchscreen, satellite navigation, SD card input, automatic lights and wipers, automatically dimming interior mirror and power folding door mirrors.
Introduced in April this year, the Lancer GSR Sportback is a lower, sportier variant that sat under the old VRX (now XLS). It has the 125 kW 2.4-litre engine and 18-inch alloy wheels. Its sports body kit includes side skirts and a rear sports spoiler. There are sports-style front seats and sports pedals. Lancer GSR Sportback is available from a pretty reasonable $21,990 RRP.
The $37,990 Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart now has a new design of sports cloth trim with contrast stitching.
Automatic transmission is a $2000 option across ES, LS and XLS sedan and GSR Sportback models.
Mitsubishi’s rally-bred MY15 Evolution range has had its price slashed to just $52,990 (manual) and $58,990 (auto), no doubt as an answer to arch-rival Subaru’s huge price reductions on its WRX range.
Mitsubishi’s 2015 model year Lancer range continues to be covered by the company’s generous five-year/100,000km warranty.
Prices for the new Mitsubishi Lancer, and a comparison with the outgoing equivalent models are as follows:
ES Sport:
$19,990 (manual) $20,990 (automatic)
$20,390 (manual) $22,640 (automatic)
LS
$20,990 (manual) $22,990 (automatic)
$22,990 LX (manual) $25,240 LX (automatic)
XLS
$26,490 (manual) $28,490 (automatic)
$29,990 VRX (manual) $32,240 VRX (automatic)
Ralliart
$37,990 (automatic) $39,990 (automatic)
GSR
$21,990 (manual) $23,990 (automatic)
$22,990 (manual) $25,240 (automatic)
Evo
$52,990 (manual) $58,990 (automatic)
$59,990 (manual) $65,990 (automatic)
Note: These prices do not include government or dealer delivery charges. Contact your local Mitsubishi dealer for driveaway prices.
