If there’s one thing American road enthusiasts love, its the Mitsubishi Delica. You can keep all yours SprinterAnd NVwhat a bummer — Delica is the apple of our collective eye. However, with Registration of imported JDM trucks is at risk from local authoritiesMitsubishi is finally pushing the solution: Bringing the Delica overland to the United States.
Decades ago, we had Mitsubishi’s coolest van, but now it looks like Nissan is planning to give us a fully off-road-ready variant—just in time for The road market is truly saturated. Automotive news spoke with a Mitsubishi representative, who confirmed the car’s return:
According to an anonymous dealer sharing information from an internal meeting, passenger cars will appear by the end of this decade.
The van, one of two outdoor models coming out this decade, is based on the Concept D:Xa futuristic-looking six-seat plug-in hybrid that was unveiled at last year’s Japan Mobility Show.
Mitsubishi has described the concept as having the spacious cabin of a utility vehicle, the on-road handling of an SUV and the driving performance of a PHEV.
That D:X concept has been scrapped at the Japan Mobile Show last October, which is neat even without the Delica branding. Nissan calls it an “electric crossover MPV,” but it’s not a crossover like we’re used to seeing on the road. Instead, Mitsubishi claims it is a combination of “Maximum space and safety for people” and “Maximum off-road vehicles”. If that isn’t a candidate for factory vanlife then I don’t know what is.
We’ll have to wait until closer to 2030 to get our collective dirty little mitts on the new Delica, but we may start to see more production-ready models enter production sooner rather than later. . The clear body panels will probably end up on the cutting room floor, but those fenders would be better off staying.
