2023-09-05 14:24:08
Mitsubishi announced that the all-new 2024 Mitsubishi Outlander has joined the Plug-in Hybrid Outlander (models built following May 2023) as a TOP SAFE and TOP SAFETY PICK (TSP) winner by the Insurance Institute for Safety in California. Highways (IIHS).
When choosing the perfect vehicle for a family, safety ratings are always a top buying metric, and the Outlander excels here.
The 2024 Outlander earned the IIHS TSP designation with ratings of Good in the updated IIHS evaluation of side crash resistance; Standard equipped headlamps and driver side small overlap frontal crash test evaluations, passenger side small overlap frontal and moderate overlap frontal crash test evaluations original.
Outlander also earned a Superior rating for daytime vehicle-pedestrian performance of its forward collision mitigation system. The 2024 Outlander plug-in hybrid is also expected to maintain its existing TSP rating from the 2023 model year.
“With seven-passenger seating, a suite of modern safety features and the most sophisticated Super All-Wheel Control (S-AWC) system we’ve ever offered, Outlander was built to be a family vehicle,” said Mark Chaffin, Managing Director. UMM General.
“Our commitment to customer safety is paramount and it’s great to be recognized by a respected organization like IIHS for the work our engineering teams have done to maximize safety performance in our best-equipped and most advanced SUV.”
Both the 2024 Outlander and Outlander Plug-in Hybrid offer an impressive array of standard and available advanced driver assistance systems6 to increase driver comfort, confidence and occupant safety.
Available MI-PILOT Assist integrates Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC), Lane Keep Assist (LKA) and Traffic Sign Recognition to maintain proper speed and following distance and keep the vehicle on center of the lane.
Depending on trim level, the Outlander Plug-in Hybrid also offers: Forward Collision Mitigation (FCM), Predictive Forward Collision Warning (PFCW), Active Blind Spot Assist (ABSA), Blind Spot Warning (BSW), Assist lane change (LCA).
Adds Lane Departure Warning and Prevention (LDW and LDP), Driver Attention Alert, Automatic Rear Emergency Braking, Rear Cross Traffic Alert, Automatic High Beams (AHB), Hill Descent Control (HDC), Parking Assist Trailer Stability Control (TSA) and a multi-view camera system.
IIHS is an independent, not-for-profit organization that researches, evaluates, and assesses the crash-avoidance and crash-avoidance test safety ratings of production vehicles.
The TSP designation is awarded to models that score “Good” in IIHS frontal small overlap driver and passenger side tests, an original moderate overlap frontal, and an Acceptable rating in updated crash resistance evaluations. IIHS side crashes.
In addition, vehicles must be available with an Advanced or higher rating for Daytime Vehicle-Pedestrian Frontal Crash Prevention and come with standard Fair or Good-rated headlights.
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