The 2015 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport will be significantly refreshed for the new model year, adding more advantages to one of the surprise hits of the past selling season: Thanks to a crisp design and competitive value—as well as the insatiable appetite of U.S. "truck" buyers—the 2014 Outlander Sport racked up 2,820 sales in May, representing a 24.4 percent gain in volume. Now, that's not exactly a lot of units, but when it comes to growing sales, the Outlander did so at a faster pace last month than the competition from Ford, Chevy, Honda, Nissan and Toyota, while its year-to-date numbers are ahead of last year's total by 31.3 percent.
And now, the 2015 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport will benefit from a new, next-generation continuously variable transmission (CVT) that provides both the functionality of a seven-speed automatic and a small bump in fuel economy. For two-wheel-drive models, that works out to a new EPA line of 25 mpg city/32 mpg highway/28 mpg combined, marking an additional 1 mpg in all phases of testing, while Outlander Sports equipped with all-wheel drive see 1-mpg increases in highway and combined fuel efficiency, to reach 24 mpg city/30 mpg highway/27 mpg combined.
