Mitsubishi has revealed a new special edition of the L200 in Britain, called the Barbarian SVP II, which is the second model to be produced by their Special Vehicles Projects division. Building on the ...

When you think of a limited-edition car, chances are an MSO-ified McLaren comes to mind. Back on planet Earth, volume-oriented automakers are more restrained with their special editions. But on the ...

I KNEW Mitsubishi were on to a winner as soon as my daughter cast her eye over the L200 on my driveway and pronounced herself very much in the market for a pick-up. Here is a gal who is very ...

Tough vehicles probably don’t need to be made to sound tougher by giving them a hard-hitting or dangerous name. Pick-up trucks are essentially working vehicles, despite their spell as being marketed ...

It might be about to enter its ninth year of production but the L200 pick-up remains competitive and has aided Mitsubishi Motors Europe’s 23% year-on-year H1 sales rise. As noted in a recent analysis ...

Step forward Mitsubishi’s L200 Barbarian – it doesn’t come much more fearsome than that does it? And there is no doubting that the double cab Barbarian is a bit of a monster. Bulging wheel arches, ...

The tools of my trade are a laptop, pen and a notebook. And a brain jammed full of statistics, like the time the last Triumph Spitfire rolled off the line (August 1980) and whether a limited-slip ...

Jaguar Land Rover has Special Vehicle Operations and Volkswagen has Individual. Sensing a bit of an opportunity, Mitsubishi decided on emulating the formula with what the Japanese outfit calls SVP.

Confession time: our L200 long-termer has gone rather unloved in the last few weeks. With a sudden flood of other models coming and going Big Truck has been left languishing quite a lot, called upon ...

Plenty of vehicles vie for the title of king of the road, but for sheer presence the Mitsubishi L200 is up there with the best of them. Slip behind the leather-trimmed steering wheel and you are ...

The L200 might be the cheapest truck in our test group, but its high spec, solid build quality and smooth engine earned it a well-deserved third position. A slightly bumpy off-road ride, irritating ...

Barbarian. n. An uncivilised person, rough and raw. It is unclear what Mitsubishi’s L200 pickup did to deserve this unwarranted name, but never has a more inappropriate tag been attached to a vehicle.