BANGKOK MOTOR SHOW: Mitsubishi Triton tough-truck teased

Popular Mitsubishi ute spawns a tasty looking pick-up concept to debut next week

The new-look 2019 Mitsubishi Triton ute has morphed into an aggressive concept vehicle for next week’s Bangkok motor show.

Due to make its world debut in Thailand next Tuesday (March 26), the unnamed “show model” is a direct response to market demand for tough-trucks like the Ford Ranger Raptor.

The Mitsubishi Triton was Australia’s third most popular new ute last year behind the Toyota HiLux and Ford Ranger, with almost 25,000 sales making the country the world’s second biggest Triton market after Thailand, where most mid-size utes are built.

The facelifted 2019 Mitsubishi Triton was developed largely Down Under and Mitsubishi Australia is known to have commissioned a locally designed concept ute based on the Triton in order to gauge consumer interest.

Mitsubishi Australia would not comment on the Bangkok show car revealed today by Mitsubishi Motors. Nor is it clear whether it’s related to the Australian-engineered concept, or whether the vehicle previews a production model based on this generation Triton or not.

What we can see by lightening the dark teaser image, however, is that the concept ute wears chunky mud tyres, roof-mounted LED light bars and a more aggressive front bumper with integrated bash plate and red highlights.

Zero information was provided by MMC alongside the teaser shot, the company only issuing a short press release titled “ABSOLUTELY Beyond Tough – the Mitsubishi Motors Triton Show Model is Almost Here.

“Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) has announced it will unveil the special show model of TRITON (L200 in Europe) at the 40th Bangkok International Motor Show 2019 on March 26th.

“The company’s designers were given a brief to create a vehicle that represents what Triton is all about. They did not disappoint, engineering a car ABSOLUTELY Beyond Tough.”

Watch this space for more developments.