Category: Sporting 4x4s 
Price Range: £19,999 to £27,999
Good-looking, a decent drive, a useful and user-friendly family vehicle.
Not a hardcore off-roader, nor a high-image status symbol.
A very viable, and even quite sensible, alternative to the traditional estate car that can also go off-road.
The Outlander should cost no more than a conventional family estate car to run and it's good value to buy in the first place. Strong demand for second-hand Mitsubishi 4x4s means that it should hold its value quite well, too.
Fuel consumption is a good 40.9mpg from the 2.0 DI-D Warrior and Elegance models and 42.8mpg from the Equippe, which has smaller wheels and no diesel particulate filter; carbon dioxide outputs of 183g/km and 174g/km, respectively, mean reasonable tax bandings for a car this size.
The Outlander won't be liable for the £25 congestion charge in London (from 2009), either, at least with this diesel engine.
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