Mitsubishi Montero Sport

Registered from 1997 to 2004.

Mitsubishi Montero Sport
Photo: Thien Zie Yung from Kota kinabalu, Malaysia · CC BY 2.0 · source

About this model

In late 2015, incidents of sudden unintended acceleration (SUA) involving the Mitsubishi Montero Sport have been reported in the Philippines. Concerns regarding the safety of the car model were raised and several class action lawsuits against Mitsubishi Motors Philippines were filed.

From the Wikipedia article Mitsubishi Montero Sport crash incidents, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Crash test

Stability controlNo
Forward collision warningNo
Lane departure warningNo

Crash-tested by NHTSA, the American road safety agency.

Specification

YearMeasured
200415.7 L/100km (EPA) · 16.8 L/100km city · 13.8 motorway
200313.8 L/100km (EPA) · 15.7 L/100km city · 12.4 motorway
200213.8 L/100km (EPA) · 15.7 L/100km city · 12.4 motorway
200113.8 L/100km (EPA) · 15.7 L/100km city · 11.8 motorway
200014.7 L/100km (EPA) · 15.7 L/100km city · 12.4 motorway
199913.8 L/100km (EPA) · 15.7 L/100km city · 12.4 motorway
199813.8 L/100km (EPA) · 14.7 L/100km city · 12.4 motorway
199713.8 L/100km (EPA) · 14.7 L/100km city · 12.4 motorway

Regulator investigations

Opened by NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation is a question the regulator asked about a possible defect, not a fault it found — most end without a recall.

What the maker told its dealers

Service bulletins are the manufacturer's own repair guidance to dealers, filed with NHTSA. A bulletin is not a defect finding; the count rises with how many things a maker writes down, not only with how many go wrong.

Mitsubishi filed 24 bulletins about the 2004 Montero Sport.

16 more.

Grouped by NHTSA's top-level system; a bulletin filed under a sub-heading counts toward its system.