ANCAP: Five stars for 2024 Mitsubishi Triton

The 2024 Mitsubishi Triton has become the latest ute to score a maximum five-star ANCAP safety rating, and the first to do so against the independent safety body’s latest 2023-2025 protocols.

Mitsubishi’s new-generation ute yielded category scores of 86 per cent for its adult occupant protection, 89 per cent for child occupant protection, 74 per cent for vulnerable road user protection and 70 per cent for its safety assist systems – the latter being right on the five-star threshold.

According to ANCAP testers, maximum scores were awarded for passenger protection in the frontal offset test, driver protection in the full-width frontal and oblique side pole tests, and both child dummies in the frontal and side impact tests.

However, “opportunities for improvement” were noted for the protection of chests and upper legs of small rear passengers in the full-width frontal test. Indeed, a ‘weak’ chest protection score was recorded and “a penalty applied for increased risk of abdominal injury in this crash scenario”.

The Triton was also praised for its grille and bumper design, which make it one of the better offerings in its segment when it comes to the risk of injury to occupants of other vehicles and/or pedestrians, scoring well in the assessment of risk to a pedestrian’s leg or pelvis.

As for its safety assists score, testers noted the Triton’s autonomous emergency braking functionality doesn’t extend to “more sophisticated” scenarios like T-bone avoidance or head-on collision, which limited its overall category score.

Still, it was praised for being one of the first locally-tested vehicles fitted as standard with a direct driver monitoring system, and ANCAP CEO Carla Hoorweg said the typically long product life of dual-cab utes would give Mitsubishi plenty of time to “introduce additional functionality and improved performance of on-board systems”.

The five-star rating applies to all Triton variants now available in Australia and New Zealand.

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