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New Colt is 2nd Renault-based car successful Mitsubishi's rebuilt European portfolio
Japanese steadfast adds a 2nd rider car backmost to its European line-up, pursuing Captur-based ASX
The Mitsubishi Colt has returned to the European marketplace arsenic a rebadged Renault Clio, pursuing the brand’s caller motorboat successful the portion of the caller ASX - itself a Renault Captur clone.
Identical to the precocious updated French hatch aft of its bespoke beforehand grille and bumper, the seventh-generation Colt is the archetypal to connection hybrid power, launching with the Clio’s full-hybrid powertrain - comprising a 1.6-litre petrol motor mated to a brace of electrical motors and a 1.2kWh battery.
It besides gets an entry-level 1.0-litre pure-petrol option, which is nary longer an enactment for the UK mentation of the Renault Clio.
The Colt volition beryllium built astatine Renault’s works successful Bursa, Turkey, wherever the Clio is produced for definite markets, and participate dealerships astir Europe – not including the UK – from October.
Mitsubishi stopped selling cars successful the UK successful 2020 arsenic portion of a wide-reaching planetary cost-cutting strategy. It primitively planned to permission Europe wholly but has remained successful 17 markets successful the portion - with a presumption to yet regrow income to astir 150,000 units per year.
The marque precocious told Autocar it would lone see re-entering the UK erstwhile it has “more than one” electrical car to offer.
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