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There are much better small cars on the market. Recommending that the Mirage is good because of its price is like recommending McDonalds’s Dollar Menu – sure, it’s cheap, but why would you want to? I don’t think he’s actually driven a Mirage for more than a few feet.
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Back at the dealership, the salesman told my friend and me that “there are no bad cars anymore”. Mitsubishi probably knows this which is why you can get a new Mirage for around $12,000-$14,000. With those, the car would come to around $17,000, but buying a Mirage at that price is ludicrous. The only two options the Mirage ES I drove did not have were the optional navigation system and rear view camera. With that said, the Mirage does get better gas mileage than all of the competition. I probably didn’t get anywhere near those claims but a total lack of power doesn’t help. Can it? If you have a lot of patience you can probably get close. Mitsubishi claims the Mirage can do 37-mpg city and 44-mpg highway. If there is one saving grace to the Mirage, it’s the fuel economy. Showing 1.00 - 15.00 of 80.00 results Filter Results. Ride quality is decent as are the front seats. Since it takes so long to accelerate, you have to floor the throttle every time you accelerate because traffic overtakes you quickly. With the optional CVT, zero says hello to 60 mph in a leisurely 10.9 seconds. Fire up the little 1.2-liter inline-3 and you get a whopping 74 horsepower and a lot of noise. The only word I can say about the Mirage is that it is slow. The lack of a center armrest was annoying, but the Mirage had much worse offenses, one of which is how it drives. However, the knobs and switches do feel cheap and plastic-y, like they belong in a $15,000 car. The ES model does have climate control, Bluetooth, USB, and many buttons on the steering wheel. Thankfully the interior isn’t as out-of-date as the exterior. It reminds me of car design from 15-20 years ago. While the front of the car looks like a bulldog, the rear seems to be squashed and rather featureless.
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The Mirage manages to combine “boring” and “ugly” into one little hatchback. A small car doesn’t have to have the sex appeal of a Ferrari but there has to be some effort in the design. Without even giving away any stats about the Mirage, you look at it and straight away shake your head. Then you take a look at it and the mirage vanishes (pun intended). On paper, the 2015 Mirage seemed like it could it be a decent city car. Previously, the smallest car in Mitsubishi’s lineup was the mid-size Lancer, but in 2014 they rolled out a small car priced around $13,000. The 2015 Mitsubishi Mirages outstanding efficiency is the result of a number of key design elements engineered into this perky 5-door sub-compact. Light and nimble city cars – what they lack in power they joyously make up for with quirky styling, low price tags, and interior accommodations.Įnter Mitsubishi.