Mitsubishi Motors Australia has lined up 20 factory-backed accessories for the revived Pajero, which reaches Australian showrooms in December. The list runs from steel front protection bars and a snorkel to a heavy-duty winch cradle. Steve Pearson, the company’s engineering manager for accessory development, led the program.
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Mitsubishi frames the range as gear for Australian outback use. Pearson told the company’s release that Australians ask a lot of their four-wheel drives, since they tow caravans, travel off-road and cover enormous distances. Accessory prices have not been announced, and the carmaker says they will follow later. The Pajero itself was unveiled in September, and the accessories are listed as available at the market launch, so a buyer can specify protection and towing gear when ordering the truck.
The 20 accessories and where they bolt on
Carscoops, which reported the range on Nov. 9, sorts the items into front protection, towing, lighting, body protection and touring gear. The Carscoops report names a front protection bar in hooped and hoopless versions, clear headlight protectors, hood protectors in clear, tinted or matte black, a nudge bar, a skid plate, rock sliders, a snorkel, auxiliary LED lights, a roof rack, a tow bar with its harnesses and a weight distribution hitch.
A fuller list appears in The Beep’s write-up, which adds a side protection bar, under-ride protection, driving lamps and an LED light bar, with the nudge bar offered in black or polished finish. Pearson, who has been at Mitsubishi since 1990, said the vehicle needs accessories engineered as part of the overall experience rather than added afterward. CarSauce quotes him on the hitch as well, saying Mitsubishi can now offer a genuine one, a product Australian caravan owners have often bought from outside suppliers. CarSauce lists the hitch among the Australian-made items, along with the steel front protection bars, winch cradle, headlamp protectors, driving lamps and a matte-black hood protector carrying a Pajero logo.
Five years of Australian fitting work
The program is older than the vehicle’s public debut. The Australian team started work with Mitsubishi Motors Corporation in early 2022, when it received early access to CAD data, and prototypes were tested at the Okazaki research and development facility in Japan, according to The Beep. That means planning began almost five years before the SUV reached showrooms, a long runway for a catalog of bolt-on parts. The Beep says the Australian group worked alongside the parent company throughout, and the range is sold through dealers as Mitsubishi Genuine Accessories.
Mitsubishi says the front protection bars were designed not to interfere with the Pajero’s driver-assistance sensors, and CarSauce reports the company saying the bars preserve full advanced driver assistance functionality. Accessories fitted before delivery carry the standard five-year, 100,000 km new-car warranty, and eligible vehicles serviced entirely at Mitsubishi dealers can extend cover on those parts to as long as 10 years or 200,000 km, the Carscoops report says.
The truck underneath and what it costs
The Pajero sits on a ladder-frame chassis derived from the Triton pickup, with suspension tuned for the model. A 2.4-liter turbodiesel four-cylinder makes 201 horsepower and 480 Nm of torque through an eight-speed automatic and Super Select 4WD-II. Carscoops lists the entry five-seat GLS at 68,490 Australian dollars and the flagship GSR at 84,990 dollars, and the carsales preview adds a seven-seat GLS at 69,990 and the EXCEED at 79,990, all before on-road costs.
Carsales also reports that Kunitoshi Itagaki, chief product specialist on the Pajero project, said Mitsubishi listened to customers who want a vehicle for off-road use and for daily driving, and it reports that bullbars and roof racks were the first items ready, with the full range to be detailed before launch. It describes Australia as one of the Pajero’s key global markets with the local engineering team closely involved in accessory design. The same preview notes that the spare wheel moves from the tailgate to under the vehicle, which leaves the rear door clear of a heavy wheel, and that the roof-load rating is 300 kg static, the figure that matters for anyone loading a rack and rooftop gear.
Early reservations come with three years of complimentary servicing and 1,000 Australian dollars’ worth of accessories, per Carscoops. The nameplate itself dates to 1983, a history Mitsubishi’s Australian page traces to a Dakar-to-outback heritage. The same page says the Pajero Final Edition of the previous generation has sold out. Carscoops reports no plans for North America, though the vehicle will be exported to some markets as the Montero. Open questions are accessory prices, which Mitsubishi has said it will announce later, and how much of the Australian catalog crosses into those export markets. Mitsubishi has not said whether buyers outside Australia will be able to order the same bars, racks and winch cradle, so the outback-specific gear may remain a local advantage at first.
This article was produced with the assistance of AI and reviewed by Morning Overview editors prior to publication.
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