Somebody owns an V45W Mitsubishi Pajero/Montero in “Early Life And Continuous Livelihood” because it has the versatility and people carrying ability of a minivan, because they like Mitsubishi Motors’ proprietary technology such as Select Shift 4-wheel-drive, because they like the vehicle having the same V6 engine as a Chrysler minivan and because of that-being assured that it will get them from Point A to Point B as well as a Chrysler minivan would; because they like the lettering and graphics on the instrument cluster, transmission shifter, and transfer case shifter being typical of a Mitsubishi truck; and because they like the characteristics atypical of Mitsubishi Fuso engineering.

The people that own this vehicle never consider the engineers in Japan assigned to work on the V45W project, and the amount of hours Mitsubishi Fuso had spent developing and testing the V45W project before it had gone into production in 1991.

These seem to be very popular in Australia, and I don’t know why.

Link to a webpage on the Mitsubishi Motors Global website about the V45W Pajero/Montero:

http://www.mitsubishi-motors.com/en/showroom/pajero/museum/top/index.html#his_2ndx

PBS television program MotorWeek’s review on the V45W Montero from 1992:

This vehicle still isn’t my cup of tea, but they did build these with the center-band two-tone paint job that I like for the Japanese Domestic Market.