The current Mitsubishi Montero Sport is renowned primarily for its futuristic, out-of-this-world design. With the arrival of the refreshed 2020 model, Mitsubishi isn’t just fully embracing it design-wise, but is now adding cutting-edge tech to match the looks as well.

Making its market debut in Thailand, the new Montero Sport (Pajero Sport in Thailand) dons a stronger front-end design. While the makeover isn’t as visually dramatic as the Strada’s, it does gain some of the new familial themes seen of late.


Front and center is the Dynamic Shield grille, made more pronounced and angular than ever before thanks to a higher hood. The headlights retain their traditional positioning, but feature new lighting elements sandwiching a stronger front grille design. The front fog lamps and signal lamps are the ones that migrate from the trailing edge to the middle of the bumper, akin to the Strada. At the back, the divisive “red tear” LED taillights have been retained, but have been re-shaped, cut, and given a smoked hue to visually improve the flow. A more aggressive-looking rear spoiler, reworked license plate garnish, and new designs for the 18-inch alloy wheels complete the changes.


At first glance, the 2020 Montero Sport looks to remain largely unchanged. However, it’s managed to embrace its futuristic styling by employing an 8-inch TFT LCD instrument cluster. Replacing the traditional gauges, this multi-function display not only adds a strong high-tech vibe, but puts the Montero Sport as the first in its class to offer such a feature. Apart from this, it will offer a larger infotainment screen and for that, it necessitated a re-do of the center console; including new climate control buttons. It also has new soft-padded interior door trim and an AC outlet integrated in the second row.


In terms of convenience, the 2020 Montero Sport gets a power tailgate and the Mitsubishi Remote Control. Using a smartphone app, this will enable the vehicle to send notifications to the owner’s phone and can open and lock the car and tailgate for as long as the mobile phone is within Bluetooth range.

Underneath, the refreshed Montero Sport retains the 2.4-liter MIVEC diesel engine. While its outputs remain changed (181 horsepower and 430 Nm of torque), work has been done to improve its overall refinement. Mated to this engine is an 8-speed automatic. It also retains the Super Select 4WD-II system.

Already a safety leader in the mid-sized SUV segment, the Montero Sport now adds Lane Change Assist (LCA) and Rear Cross Traffic Alert (RCTA) to its multitude of driver assist features.